Comments on: Tiger Barb (Puntius tetrazona)

By: Mim

Mim — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:06:22 +0000

I recently bought two tiger barbs for my tank as starter fish. The fish shop they were suitable along with two kuhli loaches.

The barbs started out being aggressive to each other so I had decide to return them to the store the next day after reading how they shouldn’t be kept in groups of less than 5/6

They had killed each other by the morning.

I was annoyed that the shop hadn’t warned me that such a small group was likely to result in one killing the other. I had had them less than 24 hours and felt awful. When we went back one of the people said they were surprised, one said they weren’t.

I would advise against having them in small sets.

By: Ange

Ange — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:02:31 +0000

hi im Ange i currently have a few tetras 2 silver sharks and 2 angel fish my mate is giving me 3 female tiger barb how would they go together???

By: Wolfsoul

Wolfsoul — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:33:46 +0000

my tiger barbs life with an angelfish and they dont nip his fins. they have been living together ever since i got them

By: Theresa

Theresa — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:54:34 +0000

I have one tiger barb in a pack of 6 other random fish – he keeps attacking them all! I can take him out or will he get better as he becomes more familar with them?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:57:48 +0000

hey im marcus i have a 10 gallon tank and im going to buy 4 tiger barbs is that alright

By: joshua

joshua — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:01:09 +0000

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?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:25:44 +0000

i got 4 small tiger barbs today theyre really active in my twenty gallon tank..i got a betta and two other mollys….anyone reccomend any other fish?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:03:23 +0000

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.

By: jonathan&telicia

jonathan&telicia — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:33:44 +0000

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

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:25 +0000

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.