Dane

Hey all,

My 17gal passive community has settled really nicely, and I am enjoying it immensely. I can sit back, enjoy it, and not stress knowing that the fish are all happy :-)

So i pop down to the store to get another new plant, and low and behold, a tank of green tiger barbs catch my eye. I'm pretty smitten with them, the most incredible iridescent malachite green shades of colour!! So, now i want to start a new tropical community tank... But I'm thinking semi aggressive. Gotta have some of those GT barbs!!

MTS STRIKES AGAIN!

So, I was wondering what sort of community composition anyone would recommend for a tank build around a sizeable GT barb school? Whats the min size? tanks start getting quite expensive as soon as you pass the 20 gal mark where I'm from (please don't direct me to online shops, I'm from Cape Town, South Africa! hehehe)
What successful mixes have you had/can reccomend with tiger barbs? (Green tiger barbs are just a colour morph of tiger barbs, so whatever works for tigers should would for GT's)

Thanks in advance for the help! [hope this is the right thread!]

agabr123

for tiger barbs (aside from getting a school of at least six) i'd recommend getting a 29 personally, but if you wanted to stay with the 20 i'd just get 6-8 barbs and maybe a bristlenose or clown pleco for the bottom. a lot of people like species only tanks for barbs, but i think a bottom feeder like a small variety of pleco would be fine

jack--sos

if your going for Tiger barbs/ Green barbs you NEED to stay away from anything with long fins, eg Angels, Guppies and Bettas (thats a no in any tank with other fish anyway ) as they will tear them to shreads.

Dane

Thanks for the advice, and yes I know how bad they can be with long finned fish, although apparently this is a less prominent issue when they are in a large-ish school?

Nick G

Yeah thats true. The more of them there are, the less they tend to go after other fish. But it doesn't always work that way.