Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!neptune!stewartw
From: stewartw@neptune.UUCP (Stewart Winter )
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Tiger barbs
Message-ID: <213@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 14:56:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: neptune.213
Posted: Thu Mar 10 09:56:49 1988
References: <23908@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.neptune.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: You heard right!

In article <23908@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>
>I like tiger barbs a lot, but I've heard contradictory stories about them.  Some
>say that they are very aggressive, that a small school will harrass other fish
>in an aquarium and even kill them.  Others say that their reputation as
>fin-nippers is undeserved, that they make perfectly good community fish.  Yet
>others say that they are aggressive out of sheer boredom if they don't have
>plenty of company, but they are fine if you keep them in a large enough school.
>
>
    My wife bought some baby tiger barbs.  For the most part they played 
together, but as they got older they started to bother the other fish more.
It still wasn't too bad until some of them started to die off, then they 
started to attack other fish.  They eventually killed off an angel fish.
Also, one fish in particular was a bully.

   In summary, I think young tiger barbs are ok, but be prepared to flush
them when they get older, unless you have a tank of very active fish.
By the way other kinds of barbs (like cherry barbs) are not as aggressive.

>-- Ashwin.
>
>ARPA:    Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu
>UUCP:    {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin
>BITNET:  Ram@yalecs

Stewart
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