Bottom Dwellers!

[canarsie11]

I plan on housing small tetras, barbs,and danio.
But what will I do forbottom dwellers? What will be good fish for the bottom, I want something that will not grow big!

Help!

 

[trout_pout]

First of all, what type of barbs are they, tigers are supposed to be quite nasty
Anyway, Cory's would be your best, cheap, and will stay small! B)
Hope that helps

 

[Tempestuousfury]

You could get cories, shrimp, and ADF.

If you're going to put them in the 75, then you could and should get quite a few cories. At least 5, maybe more.

You could keep tigers, too, if you had 8-10 of them. they'd attack each other and leave the other fish alone.

 

[Pointy_kitty]

i'd say cories if ya want something tuff and small


GET A RUBBER LIPPED PLECO!!!!!!!!!!!
they are adorable
and much more active then your standard pleco
he's clean up any algae

 

[Becca]

Just FYI from my previous mistake:

When I first started my tank, I didn't know any better. I went to pick out some fish and saw the Tiger Barbs, the salesperson told me they were semi-agressive - which means they could go either way. Bad advice, from what I found out. I had a tank which held a couple of Zebra Danios and several assorted tetras. I added teh Tiger Barb and within a day or two had to remove him because he was nipping at the smaller fish - which would be every single danio and tetra I had in the tank. I thought he mighta just been moody, so I tried a couple more times - each seperated by a few weeks - and same thing each time. He kept chasing and trying to nip at any fish smaller than him.

So yeah, if you're going to do Tiger Barbs, I would highly recommend getting them in a nice sized school instead of just one or two. (I've heard that if you add 5-8 of a single fish, they'll nip at each other instead of the other passive fish.)

Hope this helps.

 

[jumpman]

Ancistrus catfish (dwarf bristlenoses) only grow to 3 or 4 inches, and can be very good for cleaning the glass of algae. I also have clown loaches in my 75g, but you said you don't want anything big so maybe not an option...although mine have only grown an inch in a year or so!

Tiger barbs and clowns will often school together too as they have similar markings...just a thought...

jump

P.S. A shoal of Corries would be great too

 

[StevieJack]

I agree with tempestuousfury,

***Edit- (Also agree with others in this thread about Tiger barbs (Spot on) ***

I have read lots about Tiger barbs and have some myself.

I have read many times that you need 6, 7 or 8 of these guys, they can cause less trouble than if alone. A pecking order is established and they are more likely to ignore other fish.
It still isn't advisable to put any long fined or passive fish with even a large school of tiger barbs.

Another note is that you shouldn’t really add 7 or more fish at once with out possibly disrupting the 'cycle', so when choosing tiger barbs it may be a good idea to start with them and add only one or two at the time until the desired school size is accomplished.

Just my opinion based on what I have learned,

Stevie

 

[canarsie11]

Thanks very interested in Tigers! I was in my LFS store and I saw green tigers,will the school with regular tigers?