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Blue Tiger Barb

After the change 3 had died within that time.

Blue tiger barb. The natural geographic range reportedly extends throughout the malay peninsula sumatra and borneo in indonesia with unsubstantiated sightings reported in cambodia. Tiger barb is an active schooling fish which should be kept in a group of 6 species at least. Learn more about barbs here.

After dinner proceeded to do a 50 75 water change and saw more tigers following the same symptoms. The tiger barb is moderately easy to breed and raising the fry is relatively simple they become sexually mature at about 6 to 7 weeks of age when they have attained a size between about 3 4 of an inch to just over an inch in length. Those may interest you.

He seemed like he lost color and was shiny. But a 10 gallon no. Barbs are semi aggressive fish when housed in the aquarium individually so it is important to maintain each species in groups of six or more.

The very popular tiger barb is an easy fish to care for and can be fun to watch as it swims at high speed in schools of six or more. Water temperature for tiger barbs. The tiger barb or sumatra barb puntigrus tetrazona is a species of tropical cyprinid fish.

To aggressive for small areas. I have 26 tiger barbs 3 female blue gourami a rainbow shark a panda cory 2 bristlenose in a 56 gallon. Blue tiger barb 3 4cm puntius tetrazona temperature is ideal between 25 28c ph 6 8.

Females are slightly larger than males with rounder bodies and duller colors while males are more streamlined and have more striking colors and patterns. Tiger barbs all dead. This technique will minimize aggression towards more passive tank mates.

Tiger barbs are also found in many other parts of asia and with little reliable collection data over long periods of time definite. Last night i noticed one of 11 tiger barbs turning sideways and swimming crazily. Tiger barbs will nip fins in a 10 gallon.

Tiger barbs are quite small and only grow to around 2 5 inches long. Most barb fish are small colorful active and ideally suited for the community aquarium. I am feeding on repashy grub pie gel food that i also sell here.

They all live fine. Quite often the fish is aggressive if its school is less than 6 species and it starts nipping its tank mates fins. It is not however an ideal fish for a community tank as it does nip any fish with flowing fins and can be mildly aggressive.