Tiger Barbs and ?????

how many tiger barbs are you talking about? five will act much more aggressive than ten.

a colony of larger corydoras species might be good, or a smaller plec species, bristlenose, rubbers, and clowns are the more common ones.

would serpaes or black skirt tetras be able to hang? my serpaes act more like a barb than any tetra i've ever kept.

kribs come from a riverine asian setting, dont they?

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My experience with barbs was that they will go after anything non-aggressive, save for a pleco. The little suckers seriously like to go on the attack. The only other fishes that worked for me (clown loaches, red tailed shark, etc.) are, I think, too big for a 20 gallon. And I think Indiginess is right--the more the barbs the more happy the barbs, but that starts to reduce your tankmate options.
 
I have 10 zebras in the tank now, they seem to be fine. I always thought about Serpaes being a good match. Black Skirts I would be afraid they would nip their skirts, and are they fast enough?

I presently have 9 Tiger Barbs (I have had them for 2 years). I have never been fortunate with keeping Cherry Barbs alive in the same tank with them. Not that they were being picked upon, but for some reason they just would not survive, so I discontinued buying them.
 
Pootspete I am having a similar problem with my cherry barbs though they are being kept with gold barbs and a rainbow shark. They remain small, eat very little and recently got sick in immaculate water conditions. Do you think the agression of the shark or possibly also from the gold barbs is playing a part in this?
 
I don't know if you can with that many Barbs. But in my 29G I have 4 barsbs and 4 serpae tetras. They have been together for about 6 months they get along fine. In fact they seem to school together. Which I've been told isn't normal. But they do it.
 
Tiger barbs in my experience ar fun active fish. I have put them with all sorts of other fish mollies gouramies Balas(They would school with this guy and a Pale Barb) they all did fine for quite sometime. But..... once they start picking on a fish they won't leave that fish alone they will gang up and kill it. They've done that to gouramies. They did it to my favorite fish a weather loach. The weather loach could outmatch the Tiger barb for speed any time but the Tiger Barb was persistent. They did this to a blue Gouramie as well Just gang up and kill. I won't recommend tiger barbs as a community fish no matter how many or how little there are. A large pack killed the gouramie. A single one killed the loach. And FYI both the gouramie and the loach were quite a but bigger. Tiger Barbs might do fine with other agressive fish but keep the other fish faster and bigger but with a 20 that could be tough. The tiger barb may be small but it's the meanest fish I have ever kept. Try to keep them in a single species tank.
Good luck and happy fish keeping :D
 
You do seem to be at your limit though!
 
IME, Male Tiger Barbs can be killers under certain conditions. Such as if you have more male tiger barbs than females. If you have 2 female barbs to every male, they will be quite peaceful. The female Tiger barbs rarely fight.
 
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