Tetra Tiger Barb
However i think your tank would be just a little cramped with 12 fish.
Tetra tiger barb. For example these fishes shouldn t be in one tank with barb. I have 5 barbs and 7 tetra. I have both neon tetra and tiger barb together providing you have enough tiger barb they will ignore the tetras and just fight amongst themselves for the alfa spot so yes you can.
Tiger barbs are also found in many other parts of asia and with little reliable collection data over long periods of time definite. To commercial breeders however this fish will most likely always be referred to. My experiences with tetras and barbs is to keep the tetra school bigger than the barb.
Now everyone seems to live in harmony. When i only had 3 barbs they seemed more aggressive. To start it s a good idea to set up a separate breeding tank.
I ask because i have 10 gold barbs and 3 von rio tetras and the von rio school with the barbs. They can peacefully co exist with tiger barbs but also with lots of other species especially that they re less nippy than their tiger cousins. Because it s a schooling fish it should always be kept in groups of five or more.
The barbs leave the tetras alone and the number of barbs seems to be enough to keep them mellow. So to keep slow and long finned fish as tiger barb tank mate isn t a good idea. The tiger barb presented in figure 1 hints that the taxonomy of the species is far from being settled.
So i have 11 skirt tetras in my 29 gallon tank and i ve always had an interest in tiger barbs no i m not planning on adding them. This thread is 6 years old and now locked. Males may appear to be aggressive since they fight with each other but these fights never end up with the death.
Does the serpae seem to school at all with the barbs. The black ruby barb is a smaller barb with a docile nature that has a similar pattern to the tiger barb. The natural geographic range reportedly extends throughout the malay peninsula sumatra and borneo in indonesia with unsubstantiated sightings reported in cambodia.
I ve just read a lot about tiger barbs including that they are similar to skirt tetras i ve read that skirt tetras can be as nasty as barbs sometimes. A separate tank to raise the fry is best if you want higher survival rates. These fish do not exhibit parental instincts at all and will readily eat their eggs.
Freshwater angelfish betta goldfish congo tetra dwarf gourami. Tiger barbs and serpae tetras do both prefer to be in schools of at least 6 individuals of their own kind. The tiger barb or sumatra barb puntigrus tetrazona is a species of tropical cyprinid fish.
