Hi Guys have 8 tigers and 7 oddessa's with 4 small (all either 1" or smaller )Clown Loaches and a really small Dull eyed royal Pleco about 2" I know i'm over stocked a little but just ordered my new tank. I do 30% water changes every week and test the water 2 days before a change to make sure I'm getting no spikes.....Now on to my question I have 1 Tiger barb that looks like it has lost a bit of colour and stays away from all teh other fish. Can you think of anything that maybe causing the stress? these have all been together 8 weeks now and all i have done was remove a 5" common Pleco and replace it with the L191. this has only just become an issue in the last 3-4 days. Any Ideas?
Stressed Tiger Barb
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N0body Of The Goat
Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
The pale barb could be getting picked on by some of the others, one of the reasons why bigger groups of Tiger Barbs (12+, more the better providing the filtration can handle it and the tank is of an adequate size).
What size is the current tank and what size is the newly ordered one? A suitable sized tank for life for the Clown Loaches and L191, in the realms of a 6x2x2, will save you and the fish stress plus your wallet in the long run (as in there is no point buying say an upgrade to a 4-foot now when you are really going to need something bigger eventually).
What size is the current tank and what size is the newly ordered one? A suitable sized tank for life for the Clown Loaches and L191, in the realms of a 6x2x2, will save you and the fish stress plus your wallet in the long run (as in there is no point buying say an upgrade to a 4-foot now when you are really going to need something bigger eventually).
N0body Of The Goat
Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
Something else I forgot to mention earlier was temperature and current...
Your Clown Loaches and L191 are truely tropical fish that need 24C as a minimum, whereas Tiger Barbs and Odessa Barbs are sub-tropical that wll do far better being kept in the low 20s (21/22C) most of the time. A high temp could be stressing one of the barbs more than the others, while the heat is going to raise their metabolism and make aggressive members of the group more fiesty.
Your Clown loaches and Odessa Barbs are current loving fish, in your new 270l tank, they would be very happy with 3000-5000 litres per hour of water movement from filters and powerheads all blasting down one length of the tank . Tiger Barbs are to some extent, but I suspect they will choose to swim in the calmer areas (so if you had the current firing to the right from the front left position of the tank they would swim in the rear left corner).
Your Clown Loaches and L191 are truely tropical fish that need 24C as a minimum, whereas Tiger Barbs and Odessa Barbs are sub-tropical that wll do far better being kept in the low 20s (21/22C) most of the time. A high temp could be stressing one of the barbs more than the others, while the heat is going to raise their metabolism and make aggressive members of the group more fiesty.
Your Clown loaches and Odessa Barbs are current loving fish, in your new 270l tank, they would be very happy with 3000-5000 litres per hour of water movement from filters and powerheads all blasting down one length of the tank . Tiger Barbs are to some extent, but I suspect they will choose to swim in the calmer areas (so if you had the current firing to the right from the front left position of the tank they would swim in the rear left corner).
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