so one of my females cherry barbs tail fin is barely a fin anymore, and one of my males dorsals is nipped. this didnt start happening until i moved them to the 55 and a female went missing. so will they be ok?
will my cherry barbs be ok?
- Thread starter allaboutfish
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i doubt they'd pick on each other. I have 4 males and 6 females in a community tank, and they're very peaceful towards each other with no signs that they've nipped at each other. I'd suspect another species of fish, whichever you have in the 55.
Don't know if they'd suddenly start picking on each other, but I picked up 2 male cherry barbs then spent a couple weeks looking for a LFS that had some females got 3 of them, the 2 males went after them chewed them up 1 died moved the other 2 to a different tank.
i have 3 quarentines up. 1 has a gold ram another has a gold ram(used to have cutteri fry but they all died) and one with an endler, 2 killifish fry, and cherry shrimp
update
the cherry barbs fin is growing back all on its own.
hopefully i can get them 10 new friends soon to spread out the aggression even more.
the cherry barbs fin is growing back all on its own.
hopefully i can get them 10 new friends soon to spread out the aggression even more.
Good to hear. I've never seen cherries be all that nippy towards each other but you could always have an exception to the rule. Adding more should theoretically help.