Moving Gold barbs to another tank?

[finner897]

Hello all, this is my first post here so sorry if I make some mistakes or if this is on the wrong thread. I have 2 30gallon tanks, the first one is overstocked and the second one is a little understocked. The second tank which is a little under stocked has 1 angel fish, 5 guppies, 2 small glass fish, 1 blue ram, 1 Cory, 1 African dwarf frog and 1 gourami. The guppies and angel fish are reasonably small. I was wondering if I would be able to move 4 small gold barbs from my other tank to the second tank, with the guppies and angel fish. I know they nip fins but I have seen people say if you have a lot of them they would mostly nip/play with each other. If I bought around 4-8 more gold barbs could I put them in with the guppies and angel fish without their fins being nipped? I know I have some other fish in the tank but the guppies and angel fish I am worried about as they have fairly long fins that can be nipped. I am sorry if this thread is confusing. Thank you in advance.

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

You could try the gold barbs with the angelfish and guppies but you will have to move them out if they start nipping. They might be ok, but they might not. Try it and see how they go. Hopefully you have some peaceful gold barbs and they get along with everyone else.

 

[finner897]

Hi and welcome to the forum

You could try the gold barbs with the angelfish and guppies but you will have to move them out if they start nipping. They might be ok, but they might not. Try it and see how they go. Hopefully you have some peaceful gold barbs and they get along with everyone else.

Thanks for the welcome. I may just have to try that. Do you recommend buying more gold barbs too to give them a better chance of staying with each other, or just try it with the gold barbs I have currently? My concern is that if the new gold barbs were aggressive I would have 4 gold barbs I couldn’t do anything with. The gold barbs I have currently seen rather shy and don’t nip fins as much as I’ve seen, so I am not sure if I should take the chance of buying more to see what happens.

 

[finner897]

Thanks for the welcome. I may just have to try that. Do you recommend buying more gold barbs too to give them a better chance of staying with only each other, or just try it with the gold barbs I have currently? My concern is that if I bought the new gold barbs and they were aggressive I would have 4 gold barbs I couldn’t do anything with. The gold barbs I have currently seen rather shy and don’t nip fins as much as I’ve seen, so I am not sure if I should take the chance of buying more to see what happens. I am leaning more towards what you suggested anyways.

 

[Colin_T]

I would try with the ones you have and see how they go.