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Well I have three peices of fake coral with caves in the tank so I think there is plenty of hiding spots...I thought tiger barbs were suspossed to get along with the red tail shark. For 4 weeks everything was fine. The tiger barbs chased each other around and that was the only aggression.... and...
Guys fairly new to the hobby...have a 65 gallon tank that I currently have 1 red tail shark, 4 tiger barbs, 4 roseline sharks and 5 cory cats....everything has been fine for a couple of weeks(4 weeks)...now all of a sudden my red Tail shark has started being really aggressive towars the tiger...
Yes the 6 tiger barbs and the 5 little barbs are fine. Just looks like the LFS fish are the ones suffering from this. I added 5 tablespoons of aquarium salt this afternoon. I don't know if this will help or do anything....this really sucks. Makes me so upset to lose all those fish.
It hasn't gotten any better:banghead: I have now lost 4 of the 5 large Denison barbs and 3 of the 6 Black Ruby Barbs. The last large Denison Barb has a large round white circle around it's Dorsal fin....I think this might be ICH....How do I know for sure and how do i treat this??? Please help...
yes we have multiple caves in the tank...Saturday and yesterday he was in and out of the caves...today just hanging in the back of the tank behind the one emperor 400 intake tube....
it is weird that all the fish from the LFS are the ones not doing well while the ones from the large pet chain seem to be fine....LFS bought 5 denision barbs (3 died) and bought 1 red tail shark ( he just hangs around the back and hides, dosen't swim the tank much), and 6 Black Ruby Barbs (3...
the only thing I remember seeing was small red blotches on the bellies on the denision barbs...the Black ruby's I didn't see anything but they are black and a deep red so maybe didn't notice....
Have a 65 gallon tank that was fishless cycled. The temperature is currently set at 75 degrees and I have 2 emperor 400's running plus 2 airstones....
I purchased 5 larger Denision Barbs (approx 3 inch), 1 red tail shark, and 6 Black Ruby Barbs from my local fish store Saturday afternoon...
Decided to go this way....
10 denision barbs
6 Black Ruby barbs
6 Tiger Barbs
1 Red Tail Shark
Now that they are in there.....
How much food do I feed them and how often. I have purchased flakes as well as frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp. I am clueless on how much to feed them...
So I finally bought some fish today to stock my 65 Gallon...
6 Denision Barbs
6 Black Ruby Barbs
1 Red Tail Shark
Looking for some other suggestions when I go to my LFS tomorrow for some more fish...
Was thinking 6-10 Zebra Danios for a top level swimmer and looking for a bottom...
Yeah the temp is raised to 82 degrees. I don't plan on getting fish until this coming weekend. Probably sunday. So if all zeroed out tomorrow I expect the nitrates to be 160 so I will do a 100% water change and then I guess just keep dosing the ammonia up to 1ppm until Saturday to keep the...