Rate My Fish Tank

Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:39 am GMT   Reply      

Hi, I got some new tiger barbs on Oct 17 and they've lived up till now but some times they all three school some times one goes into a cave and hangs out then some times they all split apart. What is the matter?

Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:08 pm GMT   Reply      

This is kinda important All day that I know of Ive hadnt seen the one school one time.

Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:50 pm GMT   Reply      

I think you need more than 3 to stimulate their schooling instinct better.

Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:43 am GMT   Reply      

is 5 a good number?

Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:10 pm GMT   Reply      

Try it.

Are those live plants? You write that there's gona be lots of plants.

How are they growing?

Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:06 pm GMT   Reply      

There ok the bulds keep on uprooting there self. As far as the plant I have now they ok they have some brown spot on them though and have a bit of algea on then. Thx for asking.

Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:30 pm GMT   Reply      

From what I see your plants need low to medium amount of light.

You should probably either get stronger lights or go with only low light plants like Anubias.

Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:53 am GMT   Reply      

Six is the recommended number for Tiger barbs, and pretty much any schooling species. I have 6 Tiger barbs and they school quite a bit.

Z

Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:01 am GMT   Reply      

Bad news, One died I did a water test every think is great. The others are okey and so are the other fish. It was the one with the dot in the middle. :(

Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:45 pm GMT   Reply      

Sorry to hear that your tiger barb died. I as well started off with three tiger barbs and had the same probelm. Then I noticed that two of them were always fighting. Then I noticed that they started harrassing the third. I looked at them closely and I realized that I had two males to one female. And it was the males that were fighting and harassing the lone female. So when one of them go tired he would go off by himself under a big plant.

I eventually went and got three green barbs and now eveything is great. They all school together and even let my clown loaches school with them as well. I have to say they very interesting fish to watch in the tank as they are the one of the most active fish.

Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:08 pm GMT   Reply      

How do you sex tiger barbs?

Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:11 am GMT   Reply      

How do you ssex them?

Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:53 pm GMT   Reply      

I mean, how do you tell the different sexes from one another?

I guess I could just google Tiger Barbs and read about it.......

Might be a good idea, Mro2you2. My guess is that if you have a big enough school the increace in numbers would lessen the agression against any one fish, unless it was already sick or something.

This is assuming that the death was caused by the other ones as Bassdr17 thought.

I'm trying again with a school of Cardinal Tetras. Looks like one isn't going to make it out of 9. They're really touchy fish and I'm assuming it was due to the stress of the move from the store. I think I'm doing everything right and it sucks to have deaths.

The others I had previousy died because there was neon tetra disease I think.

I hate losing fish!

Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:12 pm GMT   Reply      

One is dieing right now ..... well I think sow. I run salt threw, I just added stress coat wat els can I do?


HELP ME!

Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:16 pm GMT   Reply      

they should be pretty tough little fish.......

As a thought,....... Does your de-chlorinator dechlorinate chloramines as well as chlorine? Some brands only dechlorinate chlorine, and most municipal water suppliers (tap water) have started adding chloramine, which eveporates slowely, if not at all. Chlorine actually eveporates out of water if you just let it sit for a while. Chloramines stay in the pipes longer and kills bacteria. It's probably bad for people too.

When I run out of money and have to drink tap water I add a drop of aquarium conditioner to the gallon. It says it's only for fish, but I'sd rather drink water that won't kill my fish over water that has chlorine and other chemicals put in it.

I've been keeping fish for years. I have the perfect pH, low nitrates, and I still have fish die. It's frusturating.