Albino Tiger Barbs

[ScoutCarcer]

How many Albino Tiger Barbs can live peacefully in a 55 gallon?

 

[Lateral Line]

With Tiger Barbs, any type, peacefully is a little stretching it. What else is/is going to be in the tank?

 

[ScoutCarcer]

Full Grown Common Pleco

 

[Grouchy]

Currently I have 21 tiger barbs and one common pleco in a 40 gallon tank. Everybody seems quite happy. The common pleco will keep to itself, staying hidden under plant growth, behind filter tubes or anywhere else it's dark.

Just curious, have you considered a mix of tiger barbs, albino tiger barbs and green barbs for effect?

 

[Teelie]

I think greens are dyed though.

 

[The-Wolf]

I think greens are dyed though.

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green tiger barbs AKA moss barbs
are a man made colour morph.
if you look at the tiger barb in natural light you will see the black bands are actually dark green. some TBs have patches of this pigment inbetween the bands, these are the ones that you would selectivly breed to bring out the green all over, through generations.

 

[gwlee7]

The "Moss Green" tiger barbs are not dyed. However, in my experience, the colored and albino barbs are not very hardy (maybe too inbred). I got albino tigers from two different sources and none of them lasted long while my "regular" tiger barbs thrived and are still thriving for that matter.

Anyway, I would think that you could keep up to two dozen in a 55 gallon would be okay as long as you keep the water changed properly. It would be a quite active tank that's for sure.

I have twelve in my 55 with some odessa and checkered barbs and there's something happening all the time.

Edit: I see the Wolf beat me to the punch on the Moss green barbs

 

[Alix]

i have 4 tiger 1 albino 2moss an they are so active an i love it. this was my first tank in a while an no one has died an i started it b4 Xman...well some one did die as a matter of fact. my step bros betta tank cracked so(with out asking me) he put his betta into my tiger tank an left for like 5 hours came back a bitched me out for my tigers killin him...it was a nice betta...shoulda asked so i could say"no my tigers will kill it its to slow an has long fins"...but i love my tiger/albino/an moss barbs ... sooo active

 

[Teelie]

With so many dyed fish in the world, it's hard to keep track and the way Green barbs are "splashed" looks like dyeing on first glance too. Anyhow since they aren't dyed, I suppose they are safe to get unless they really are less hardy.

 

[UBigBobby]

nope they're not dyed...I just don't think they're attractive. i stick with regulars and albinos.

 

[Lateral Line]

The line bred colour morphs of most fish are weaker then the original lines because they have, by necessity, been inbred. To fix characters, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters and other close relatives are inbred to extenuate the "desired" genetic faults.

The baggage that goes with that are the other problems always associated with inbreeding. Deformities, short life span, atypical behaviour, etc.