Tiger and Blak Ruby Barbs?

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F1shkeeper

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I replaced the gravel and fish in my 55g a while back and have since began to add fish to the tank. As of right now I have an ornate bichir, a royal pleco, and my uspidedown cat fish I've had for about 4 years now. Just the other day I added 7 very small tiger barbs to the tank. My question is I would like to add some black ruby barbs as well, would these two schools get along or would the tiger barbs be to agressive? If they will not get along I will just add more tiger barbs. let me know what you guys think.
 
Yeah, I think thats the best plan, but do you know if the two would even get along at all?
 
tiger barbs get along fine with ruby barbs. I have tiger barbs, green barbs, black barbs, ruby barbs , and golden barbs all in a 75 gallon tank. They all swim together, but I have 6 of each type. All barbs pick at eachother, the trick is to have enough to spread thele aggression. When my red tailed shark and pleco start terrorizing the tank at feeding time all the barbs school together no mater their color.
 
Now are you talking about different colored tiger barbs or different species of barbs all together? Because as far as i understand black ruby barbs are different then tiger barbs, while green tiger barbs are just different color variations.
 
Ruby barbs are very peaceful, fun to watch, they are different from green,black,albino, regular barbs......:)
 
F1shkeeper said:
no one?
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I have tiger barbs, green barbs, black barbs, ruby barbs , and golden barbs all in a 75 gallon tank.

These are Puntius tetrazona:
tiger barbs
green barbs

I've never heard of "black barbs" nor "ruby barbs" - I think they mean black ruby barbs, Puntius nigrofasciatus.

Gold barbs are Puntius semifasciolatus.

The different species will all get along, but won't school - they won't get close to each other unless they are stressed by an aggressive fish or lacking in tankmates of their own kind. So if you got one black ruby barb, I imagine it would try to school with the tigers. But it would probably not be welcomed into the group, nor would it be very happy to be a misfit. Ditto with just two or three black rubies - the tiger barbs wouldn't pick on them, but they wouldn't school together, and the black ruby barbs wouldn't be as happy as the tigers, who would rule the top of the tank.
 
thanks platytudes, that was the answer I was looking for. So it looks like more tiger barbs would be the best bet. Thanks again
 
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