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My tank and first inhabitants...

Post by adampetherick » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:04 pm

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Post by Mad Duff » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:20 pm

They look like nice stocky fish mate, and the tank looks great :)
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Post by adampetherick » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:39 pm

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 :(

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Post by palaeodave » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:23 pm

Are all those plastic plants?
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Post by adampetherick » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:06 pm

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
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Post by angelfish83 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:09 pm

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?
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Post by adampetherick » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:00 pm

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 :?
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Post by angelfish83 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:45 pm

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
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