Are tiger barbs and mbuna cichlids compatible?
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No Silly, The Mbunas will kill them. Also, tiger barbs are very aggressive fin nippers if kept in schools of less than 6. You would need to add a minimum of 6-8 tb's anyway.
mbuna is the only thing you can safely put in a mbuna tank long term.......short term, yes, but whatever you put in with them will die.
^Yep.
Interesting dynamics those Tiger Barbs.
Put them in with aggressive fish in a small group and they'll often get themselves killed by testing out the pecking order. You end of with the opposite of what is commonly expected, with the weak timid ones surviving and the dominant ones getting picked off. Give them a large enough school and they don't pick a fight with the other fish. But I'm pretty sure the Mbuna would be perfectly willing to bring the fight to them.
Either way you end up with a time-bomb since even if you do get a large enough school that doesn't get knocked out by the Mbuna, it is just a matter of time till old age (they don't live extremely long) starts to widle down the school and then they start looking at the other fish (which will kill them) to test out pecking order. Best not to do it.
Interesting dynamics those Tiger Barbs.
Put them in with aggressive fish in a small group and they'll often get themselves killed by testing out the pecking order. You end of with the opposite of what is commonly expected, with the weak timid ones surviving and the dominant ones getting picked off. Give them a large enough school and they don't pick a fight with the other fish. But I'm pretty sure the Mbuna would be perfectly willing to bring the fight to them.
Either way you end up with a time-bomb since even if you do get a large enough school that doesn't get knocked out by the Mbuna, it is just a matter of time till old age (they don't live extremely long) starts to widle down the school and then they start looking at the other fish (which will kill them) to test out pecking order. Best not to do it.
I had one that lived in a 55 then a 100 gallon cichlid tank for over two years.
Then I tore the tank down. Not advisable but do able.
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Then I tore the tank down. Not advisable but do able.
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