Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!amdahl!ames!eos!aurora!agate!artemis!bonnie
From: bonnie@artemis
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Tiger barbs
Keywords: fresh water tropical fish aquarium
Message-ID: <7275@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 19:52:11 GMT
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In article <420@amanpt1.zone1.com> mrr@amanpt1.zone1.com (Mark Rinfret) writes:
>
>My experience with tiger barbs was enough to convince me that I'll probably
>never purchase them again.  They are definitely fin-snippers and worse.  I
>only had ONE in a 20 gallon tank (lots of plants and rocks, too) and it did
>major damage to the rest of the population.  After he destroyed (read killed)
>one of my kissing gouramis, he went down the toilet.

Tiger Barbs are school fish and having only one would make it extremely 
aggressive.  When I had my aquarium, I had six and they were 
aggressive toward the pair of Brazilian catfish. When I increased
the number of tiger barbs to about 10, they travelled in the school and
were substantially happier (you will be able to tell by their color -- 
the deeper the better ).  They also left the other fish alone.
 
(I gave up my aquarium when I moved out west.  I'm now getting ready 
to start one up and plan on buying tiger barbs again.)   

Bonnie Giagnacova
bonnie@artemis.berkeley.edu