Tiger Barbs

[sum yung gy]

Are Neon tetras compatible with tiger and green tiger barbs?

 

[sylvia]

green tiger barbs are just a color morph like albinos etc. Tiger barbs can be kept with neon tetras but you are best off with the neons in an established tank and adding a large group of barbs afterwards. That way the neons can adapt and settle into the environment before the barbs are even introduced. A large group of barbs disperses aggression.

 

[gwlee7]

I had the worst luck with the albino tigers. I got 4 each from two different fish stores and they all 8 ultimately died. Water in the tiger tank has been stable. The gold w/black striped (regular) tiger barbs are thriving and growing like crazy. Each time one of the albinos has died I have replaced it with a "regular" barb. My last albino tgier barb passed away yesterday .

I think the color morphs must be more rare around here and they are being inbred too much and are weaker and disease prone. I am not having trouble with any other fish.

I love tigers but am going to stick with the "plain" ones. They provide me plenty of excitement darting around in their planted tank having a grand old time. They go crashing through some watersprite like they are in a jungle.

 

[northpaul]

hi what about danios mine get on great

 

[Yenko]

Are Neon tetras compatible with tiger and green tiger barbs?

Yeah, as long as you have 5-6 tiger barbs they shouldn't bother the neons much. If your tank is planted (fake plants will work) the neons can hide easily due to their size. Anyway, I say just leave the neons at the LFS and get more Tiger barbs instead.

Edit, Danios are fine with Tiger Barbs; even if there is trouble the Danios can outrun the tiger barbs very quickly.

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

Should be I keep cardinal tetras with tiger barbs. How big is your tank and how many tetras do you plan to buy?

 

[Grouchy]

I highly recommend keeping neon, cardinal, glolite and other colorful tetras, gouramis, most guppies and any slow decorative fish out of a tank with tiger barbs, albino barbs and green barbs. Although anger is dissipated with larger numbers I have found from a couple years of experience with them that there will always be a lone barb or two, usually young, that will attack other fish mercilessly.

Cory catfish, plecos, platys and zebra danios have been the only fish kept without incident with my tiger barbs.

With the other fish you are taking chances; be prepared with another tank just in case you try to integrate.

 

[gwlee7]

Cory catfish, plecos, platys and zebra danios have been the only fish kept without incident with my tiger barbs.

And, just for your information, I had incidents with keeping cories and platies with tiger barbs. The cories and platies were already in the tank but when I introduced a shoal of 8 tiger barbs, they immediately went to chasing and harrassing my cories and also to some extent, my platies. Of course, the tigers were young ones (like Grouchy said). Nevertheless, my experience is that tiger barbs do best with tiger barbs. I have mine in their own tank now.

 

[Grouchy]

I've had corys and plecos attacked by barbs but it was rare. The pleco attack was a lone grump in a group of 3 barbs. The cory was in the young barb tank when I bred them a while ago. In that case, however, I think it was just ravenous young barbs that considered anything that entered the tank to be food. We're talking young, small barbs but a small cory catfish, too. I had to take the poor guy out.

Quick question, was your cory albino or colored? Now that I think about it, the young cory that got munched was a bronze cory; the albinos in the barb tank have been happily coexisting for a long time now.

 

[gwlee7]

My cories are peppered cories. The tigers were just chasing them and doing the tiger barb thing that they do. I couldn't sleep knowing that they were chasing my juvy cories so I got them their own tank so they can chase each other to their hearts content.

 

[LoachLover]

Personally I never liked Tiger Barbs

 

[parker313]

When I had tiger barbs, successful tank mates were: convict cichlid, jewel cichlid (just 1!), gold gourami, bolivian rams, and clown loaches. They weren't all in at the same time, but I had a 35g hex tank, so I think the height of the tank helped with the loaches b/c the barbs stayed more up near the top.

 

[LoachLover]

yeah tiger barbs can do pretty good with fish that can dole out as much damage as the tiger barb can.

 

[northpaul]

my tigers get on great with clown loachs the rtbs chases them abit but no harm done they leave my corys and cardinals alone to

 

[LoachLover]

my tigers get on great with clown loachs the rtbs chases them abit but no harm done they leave my corys and cardinals alone to

My tiger barbs actually did fine with my black mollies as well as my clown loaches.