I have a tank with 11 Tiger Barbs, and the tank looks great with only the Tiger Barbs because of their tight schooling patterns. They follow me around the tank knowing that I provide them food. I feed the Tiger Barbs flakes and freeze dried bloodworms every morning and afternoon.

These guys can be nippy in small groups. In larger groups, Tiger Barbs establish a pecking order among each other, so there is less nipping of the other fish.

i have 1 tiger barb in my tank right now bexause i origianally bought two but the next was eaten by my clowns but my other lives 2 months later. i’m about to buy more but i’ve only seen him nip my dwarf gourami’s fin once.

Whoa, that is really odd. I’ve never heard of seen an instance where a clown loach would harm such a fish like the Tiger Barb. It would be the other way around. Clown loaches are pretty friendly, perhaps too friendly.

They always implore and investigate what other fishes are doing, like it’s their life goal. My clown loaches would sometime follow my German Blue Rams and my Chinese Algae Eater probing them with their mouths but never harming them. Also, I always see my loaches sleep right on top of my algae eater, but the algae eater doesn’t really like that, and he tries to run to the other side of the tank.

Your barbs were really well-behaved if they only tried to nip your gouramis bright and beautiful fins one time. When you buy more barbs, you should see the nipping to cease (if you decide to purchase more than 6).

I have just purchased another 7 Tigers to add in with the others. I now have 12 in total and they seem to love swimming up close to each other. So far, they have not shown any sign of nipping but they are only tiny yet.

I am however a bit worried that they may take advantage of of my Platty’s nice long tails. Any advice for the prevention of future casualties is much appreciated

Are there signs of aggression currently, in your tank? Usually, tiger barbs will mellow out and focus on each other while they are in a group of your size so the platy wouldn’t be a target.

Hello, I used to have three tiger barbs, one died. Now I have two tiger barbs and one pleco. Even though I have a ten gallon tank, my fish are still very happy. Please post if you have any ideas to make my fish happier.

For your ten gallon tank, Tiger Barbs will not have enough room to swim around. Also, your two tiger barbs would be lonely with each other, so it would be preferable to boost that number to at least 6. A larger tank would be first priority, though.

hi, we have just bought 4 tiger barbs and after reading up on them we intend buying at least 4 more, my concern is that we purchased 4 malawian fish the next day and they seem to b very aggresive toward my tiger babies, we have had a silver dollar, two tin foils and a bala shark who are around 12cm each and havnt harmed the tiger barbs at all but these four malawians are constantly going at them, what should i do? i love my tiger barbs and we only have them for 3days now.. they are just too gorgeous

You should either take back the Malawi cichlids or the tiger barbs. In most cases, tiger barbs will usually do fine in large groups with more territorial fish, but the Malawi cichlids are a nasty bunch that don’t mess around.

Hi, my name is Joshua.
I used to have 3 tiger barbs, 1 died, and my pleco died awhile ago. And so I only have 2 tiger barbs, can you give me advice to help my tiger barbs survive? Everybody knows that if their fish died, they would be pretty sad, too. Can you please give me some advice?