Should I Remove The Barbs?

[Cazangel]

I have a 180 litre tank which currently has 3 congo Tetras, 5 Phantom Tetras, 2 Rainbow Ram , 1 Swordtail , 4 Tiger Barbs, 1 Plec. The latest edition was the Tiger Barbs I bought 6 and two have died I don't know why the water is fine so I assume from stress of moving but My swordtail is very stressed and constanly hiding under rocks and today when it swam out I noticed it's back fin is chewed and saw a Tiger Barb having a quick nip off him.

I was told that I was OK to add Tiger Barbs but now I'm not so sure they seem to leave my other fish alone but they have picked on this swordtail and now I don't know whether I should get more Barbs so theres a bigger shoul and they won;t bother my other fish or should I get rid of the Tigers and sell them on?

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

 

[shang hi]

the information you were given was not all bad, tiger barbs are most renound fin nippers and a good LFS will recomend no long fined fish as tank mates (this includes congo tetras and swordtails) but as with most barbs a big enough should of maby 15+ and the nipping is mostly on one another and rearly/not much on other breeds of fish.
if i was you then i would lose the tiger barbs (not lose littlerly) for the sake of your swordtail and congo tetras.
also congo tetras should be in a shoul of 6+ to get the most colour and activity out of them.

 

[Cazangel]

the information you were given was not all bad, tiger barbs are most renound fin nippers and a good LFS will recomend no long fined fish as tank mates (this includes congo tetras and swordtails) but as with most barbs a big enough should of maby 15+ and the nipping is mostly on one another and rearly/not much on other breeds of fish.
if i was you then i would lose the tiger barbs (not lose littlerly) for the sake of your swordtail and congo tetras.
also congo tetras should be in a shoul of 6+ to get the most colour and activity out of them.

Thank you for that I am going to give the Tiger barbs back to the shop and once the other fish are calm again in a few weeks I plan to add more Congo Tetras as well so that's great advice thank you

 

[Spooky76]

If you are adding Congos, I did find that they loved peas and other veggies and really made their colours come out. Mine look fantastic now, so maybe some veggies will help them.