Hey all, been noticing something strange with my few batches of Tiger barbs the past couple of months and maybe you could give me some incite.
Has anyone heard or seen or had experience with Green Tiger barbs being less hardy then regular striped tiger barbs? Those damn fish are nearly $5 a pop and when one dies, I get a little aggrevated because my strip ones are doing just fine. I do a major cleaning of vacumming and water change of 50% once a month, replace my Top Fin ammonia/charcoal bag each month and water conditions stay well within limits. Is this a result of cross breeding and week species or what?
Also, WTF is up with tiger barbs attitude? I kid you not, I had a 2.5 pleco in my tank and the next morning, it is COMPLETELY gone! Im talking ripped apart the entire tank, moved the tank to see if he jumped out, dug up gravel, turned decorations upside down and he is GONE! And im the only one in his apartment. Can tiger barbs strip clean a freaking Pleco like that?
Same tiger barbs a few months later, had a rubberlipped pleco for about 4 weeks and then one morning...gone...all that was left was some scales and fins remnants? HOly crap? Barbs eating my freaking second pleco?
Even scarier, I noticed that few of my tiger barbs are smaller and don't have prounounced bellies like the other do. They struggle to try to get food either freeze dried or pellet before the other bigger ones do. I've seen them basically get so weak that the next morning, their bodies are torn apart and all but eaten?
Holy crap, am I dealing with freaking mini piranha's here or have I got batch of mean Tiger barbs? I know have 12 barbs, 1 pleco and 1 Red tailed shark in my 29gallon, and so far... so good. The pleco is nearly 3" and he doesn't take any crap from the barbs so he seems good. The shark loves to piss the barbs off so he's got balls butI have 2 small barbs that are struggling to keep up still and looking very skimpy and hungry. Arrrrgg!!
I managed to catch one last night *after a long fight* and examined it out of the water for a few seconds. Its slime coat was still good, no missing scales or bulging, no ich or fungas that I could see anywhere and all fins were in good shape.
Any idea's what the freak is going on here?
Has anyone heard or seen or had experience with Green Tiger barbs being less hardy then regular striped tiger barbs? Those damn fish are nearly $5 a pop and when one dies, I get a little aggrevated because my strip ones are doing just fine. I do a major cleaning of vacumming and water change of 50% once a month, replace my Top Fin ammonia/charcoal bag each month and water conditions stay well within limits. Is this a result of cross breeding and week species or what?
Also, WTF is up with tiger barbs attitude? I kid you not, I had a 2.5 pleco in my tank and the next morning, it is COMPLETELY gone! Im talking ripped apart the entire tank, moved the tank to see if he jumped out, dug up gravel, turned decorations upside down and he is GONE! And im the only one in his apartment. Can tiger barbs strip clean a freaking Pleco like that?
Same tiger barbs a few months later, had a rubberlipped pleco for about 4 weeks and then one morning...gone...all that was left was some scales and fins remnants? HOly crap? Barbs eating my freaking second pleco?
Even scarier, I noticed that few of my tiger barbs are smaller and don't have prounounced bellies like the other do. They struggle to try to get food either freeze dried or pellet before the other bigger ones do. I've seen them basically get so weak that the next morning, their bodies are torn apart and all but eaten?
Holy crap, am I dealing with freaking mini piranha's here or have I got batch of mean Tiger barbs? I know have 12 barbs, 1 pleco and 1 Red tailed shark in my 29gallon, and so far... so good. The pleco is nearly 3" and he doesn't take any crap from the barbs so he seems good. The shark loves to piss the barbs off so he's got balls butI have 2 small barbs that are struggling to keep up still and looking very skimpy and hungry. Arrrrgg!!
I managed to catch one last night *after a long fight* and examined it out of the water for a few seconds. Its slime coat was still good, no missing scales or bulging, no ich or fungas that I could see anywhere and all fins were in good shape.
Any idea's what the freak is going on here?
