New Aquarium- a few Tiger Barbs

[Infiniplex Systems]

Originally posted by: conehead433
If you like having fish burials you'll love having tiger barbs. They are fin-nippers and will eventually succeed in killing most of the other fish in the tank. Stick with less agressive fish. You can still have a wide variety including all of the tetra family, some gouramis, angelfish, etc.

Unless I have all tiger barbs, and a Pocamis(sucker fish) right?

 

[Infiniplex Systems]

How often do I feed the Tiger Barbs, and how much? I have 9 as of right now

 

[aircooled]

Learn about "The Nitrogen Cycle"

 

[Gibsons]

Barbs get more aggressive when they're in smaller numbers, iirc. Meaning you need to keep a certain minimum number of them around. Tiger barbs are kind of aggro, but rosy barbs are wimps. Gouramis (blue, silver, pearl) will go well with them, maaaybe angelfish. The little snake like loaches are good, and the little cory catfish too.

 

[Infiniplex Systems]

Hope this cloudy water goes away, anyone else? I need to know how much food and how many times a day for 9 barbs so far.

 

[J0hnny]

Get one of these!

Awesome

 

[Infiniplex Systems]

what else?

 

[Infiniplex Systems]

What about sharks

 

[rahul]

For the love of all that has fins! Patience man. Wait a month before you add any more fish. Personally, I'd keep about 30 tiger barbs in there and nothing else.

If you want a "community", go with about 10 tiger barbs, 10 rosy barbs and a pair of kribs.

Whatever you do, DO NOT ADD ANY MORE FISH FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AT LEAST.


Edit:

Re. sharks, the ones you see as "tiger sharks" are NOT menat for home aquaria. Do not buy them. Red tailed or rainbow sharks will coexist with barbs, but are territorial, so do not get more than 1.

 

[Infiniplex Systems]

But then, the barbs will bite at the SINGLE shark. Why cant I add more fish? I need to go get a pocasimis(sucker fish) to keep the algae down, I also want more fish than I have.

 

[rahul]

Originally posted by: Infiniplex Systems
But then, the barbs will bite at the SINGLE shark. Why cant I add more fish? I need to go get a pocasimis(sucker fish) to keep the algae down, I also want more fish than I have.

No, barbs will only go after fish with long, flowing fins. If there are enough barbs around, they will ignore most other fish. A redtailed/rainbow shark will be quite safe. Just give it some wood or a cave to hide in.

It is plecostomus not pocasimis. And you do not need one. A magnetic glass cleaner will do an equally good job. Pleco's cannot live off algae alone, and produce vast amounts of waste.

You can have more fish. But unless you want to buy fish every week, wait for your tank to cycle before you add any more. Please read some of the links posted earlier on what cycling a tank is.