Loaches Online Forum

They look like nice stocky fish mate, and the tank looks great

Do tiger barbs usually fight with each other? or is it just they're sorting the pecking order in a new home? They were earlier and 1 is now missing a scale

Only 5 months till clown loaches...

Are all those plastic plants?

The very fine grass stuff is plastic which is gonna come out as it looks wrong, and the verigated ones are silk, all the others are real

Yes Tiger barbs will bicker. You should have more of them as this will solve or very much reduce the problem and they will be happier. For such a large(ish) tank, I would say 10 in total would be nice at very least although maybe 12-15 would be best-- also consider if you want other fish in there too and remember tiger barbs are kind of rowdy and can stress or attack other fish

Is the background one of those foam things you put on the inside?

Got 12 tiger barbs and 12 Harlequin Rasbora's, yeah it's the Juwel foam background, which isn't easy to fit when there's water in the tank but goes give a very nice background.

The tigers are just bickering amongst themselves except 1 which is just swimming around by it's self in the tall plants and chasing the others away when they come near

adampetherick wrote:Got 12 tiger barbs and 12 Harlequin Rasbora's, yeah it's the Juwel foam background, which isn't easy to fit when there's water in the tank but goes give a very nice background.

The tigers are just bickering amongst themselves except 1 which is just swimming around by it's self in the tall plants and chasing the others away when they come near

Sounds like the lone barb isn't feeling very well...

Its good that you set that up the way you did though, especially the "pile" in the middle. Very accurate to their natural habitat to have things in a big tangle like that they'll enjoy it