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From: andre@nrc-ut.UUCP (Andre' Hut)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Tiger barbs
Keywords: fresh water tropical fish aquarium
Message-ID: <388@nrc-ut.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 01:33:48 GMT
References: <23908@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <420@amanpt1.zone1.com>
Reply-To: andre@nrc-ut.UUCP (Andre' Hut)
Organization: Network Research Corp.  Salt Lake City, UT
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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.
>
>Mark

One-tiger-barb is usually a bad idea.  They get bored, and nipping fins is
so much fun!  You might have had one with a bad personality.
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