what goes best with tiger barbs

[cherrybarbbaby]

I want to add 4 small-med size fish to my barb tank (tiger and albino)
I already have 2 small gouramis (they are not as colorful as I would have liked)

But I want color-I had two small cherry barbs but they were to shy and had to be moved.

Any suggestions?

 

[millym]

very small but how about neons/cardinals??? ours get along fine with our tigers & they certainly are very colourful

 

[c1tyfc]

How about corys? I admit they not to colourful, but they make up for it entertainment. I have 4 peppered corys who boss my tiger barbs about. And i notice Millym has peppered cories too, so there shouldn't be a problem. Or try some green tiger barbs to add colour.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Green Barbs are cool, but unless your lighting is bright they just look like tiger barbs with a blob on the side. You can't really see the green too well...at least in my tank.

The golden barbs are cool looking too, but for some reason they don't go very well in my tank. They just look out of place and unnatural. If i had to redo my school of barbs again, i'd just stick with tigers.

They go very well with the other striped tankmates. My tank has a lot of stem plants so if you stand back then just dissapear into the plants

But anyway, my barbs are pretty bad finnippers. They go after everything. I kept a betta in the tank and they wouldn't leave him alone. They even went after a pair of danios i kept in there. They sometimes go after my ottos and pleco too. I even catch them going after my cons fins now. They better watch out

 

[Lateral Line]

The fish sold these days as "Green Barbs" are simply another colour form of Tiger Barb, (Barbus tetrazona), which is why they resemble them, and shoal with them.

The original "Green Barb" is Barbus semifasciolatus, a nice fish that you don't see often now, (the "Golden Barb" is a yellow colour form of this fish).

As for tank mates, avoid anything with long fins, or that has a slow "way of life". Many tetras are fast swimming and work well with tetrazona. Tigers rarely bother Corys, or other bottom dwellers.

 

[cherrybarbbaby]

okay, this weekend I will add a cory fish.

Will one be okay alone or should I get a pair?
I saw a cory that was bright yellow @ petsmart, he was really active and kinda cute


Another question: will I need sinking shrimp pellets for them as well?

 

[panboy]

u should get at least a few cories. they like to stick together.
ive heard sinking pellets are good for corys, but my corys ignore them, but give it a try anyways.

 

[Lateral Line]

Cory's are best in groups, yes. As for food, they are bottom feeders, and you've got a very efficient feeding machine up around the top of the tank! I would add some sinking pellets and algae wafers.

 

[cherrybarbbaby]

I got 3 cories today!
2 have a zebra pattern and the other leopard pattern.
My one lttle cherry barb is lonely and has taken a shine to them, but everytime she tries
to get next to them they run away.


Right now they are by my computer and they come up one by one and stare at me. THEY BLINK!!! how cool.

So they have not eaten the sinking pellet but I think that's just nerves.

Thanks for the advice, I will let you know when I move them to my tiger barb tank.

 

[c1tyfc]

Good luck. My corys didn't go near pellets at first either. But when they realised the only other food being put in the tank didn't have time to hit the water before the tigers scoffed it, they decided the pellets weren't that bad after all. And yes you definetly need more than one cory, mine all sleep together ina little huddle in the corner, and yes, blinking! made me look twice.

 

[Lateral Line]

If you see them face on, you'll actually see they wink as well, one eye at a time. They're a fun little fish, harmless, and with character oozing out of them. That is why so many people love them.

 

[millym]

good choice corys are gorgeous little characters ours are always mooching around together & never very far apart so your 3 will be very happy. ours LOVE tubifex cubes we dont sink them just leave them floating on top & the corys 'swing' off them for ages munching away quite happily. they also love nutrafin spirulina algae tablets & nutrafin max freeze dried tablets which we do sink for them esp at night so that our greedy red eyes & barbs dont get them first.( sometimes a barb or red eye will catch the great big tablet in its mouth & try & swim off with it before it can get to the tank bottom - quite funny, but if you put tabs in at night when the other fish are resting it gives your corys a chance to tuck in undisturbed.

 

[cherrybarbbaby]

I love my new cories (julie??) They are very sweet .

I just put them in my barb tank
My Albino barbs seem very facinated w/them and are nudging them around the tank- so I hope they dont get pushed around to much

Also I added 3 female cherry barbs, so my one lone cherry is now very happy