i have 7 cories and 2 pictus cats and 4 tiger barbs in my 55g, would i be able to buy more tiger barbs? oh yeah, there is also a pleco in there too... he is like 5 inches long. i could move the pleco to my 125g if you think i should. and how big should i expect them to get? i read that they get to 2.5 inches.... and one more thing, how eays is it to breed them?
question about tiger barbs...
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sounds pretty full, don't tigers get kinda big, like 4-5"?
I'd say 1 or 2 more tigers at best.
good luck
I'd say 1 or 2 more tigers at best.
good luck
Well, I am no expert, but I would be careful with the tiger barbs and pictus cats. I have a 3.5" pictus cat in my 20g with (4) now (3) tiger barbs. this morning i woke up to a tank with a missing green tiger barb. i am quite disappointed. i really liked him, but he was a little small and the pictus is getting bigger. the pictus is fairly nocturnal and the barbs are an easy target at night.
good luck with your tank.
good luck with your tank.
thanks for the warning, but i have never had a prob with pictus cats eating any of my fish, i used to keep some with some guppies and nothing ever happened, and my tigers are bigger than my pictus cats mouths are....
I never saw a tiger barb that is more than 3" big. They like each other's company. Most of them (especially males) may nip fins of each other or other fish. They usually stop after being in a tank for few weeks and establish their "spots" in your tank. If you have problems with males chasing the females, just buy couple more females and that should keep your school of tigers in "balance". I think for a 55 gallon (depending on your filtration system) you should be ok with at least 3 or 4 more of them. For breeding, raise the temperature slightly and feed them meaty foods (e.g. bloodworms). PH for breeding should be around 6.5 to 6.7.
Ideally, they should be kept in shoals of even numbers, I believe. I sort of understand why, but I would rather that somebody else weighed in with the true reason rather than my (possibly-flawed) understanding.
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