Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (02/26/88)
I like tiger barbs a lot, but I've heard contradictory stories about them. Some
say that they are very aggressive, that a small school will harrass other fish
in an aquarium and even kill them. Others say that their reputation as
fin-nippers is undeserved, that they make perfectly good community fish. Yet
others say that they are aggressive out of sheer boredom if they don't have
plenty of company, but they are fine if you keep them in a large enough school.
I couldn't get a definite answer for this; I tried several books and aquarium
store owners, but they each had a different story which never seemed to agree
with anyone else. Does anyone have first hand experience with these fish? Do
you foresee any problems keeping, say, 5 tiger barbs in a 10-gallon tank with
angelfish or other usual community fish? Do they need a larger tank? Should I
keep more barbs, or less barbs? Or should I give up the idea altogether?
-- Ashwin.
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