tiger barbs with male blue gourami

[sith j]

i have a 75gal that is cycling w/o fish, trying to finalize my stocking list, this is what i have came up with so far. oh ya the tank has fake plants and small gravel, almost like sand.

3 bala sharks
3 rosy barbs
5 tiger barbs
3 emerald corys and maybe 3 other corys like pandas or peppered
3 silver dollars

i would like to put a male blue gourami in as well but not sure if the tiger barbs will harras the gourami, im thinking if i keep the barbs in large enough numbers they will leave other fish alone.


has any one had this combination or close to it


thanks in advance

 

[exodus]

As long as barbs are in a school, they tend to not harass the other fish. I've got mine in with rams, gourami, tetra, etc and the tetra give the barbs more of a problem than the barbs give anyone else.

Also, I might rethink the bala sharks - they get BIG. But then agaoin, so do silver dollars, so maybe you know this already.

 

[RoK]

Sounds like a bit much of mid-water swimmers. The balas and silver dollars will take up a great deal of middle space, especially when they get large. I think it would be best to pick one of them.
Also, might want to only pick one species of barbs and have a school of them. Having all those mid-swimmers will be uncomfortable for them because they will be bumping into others often.

 

[u2_Crazy]

I have Tiger Barbs and Gouramis, they'll be fine.

IMO, I like the look of having multi coloured Tiger Barbs. Get a few Green, a few Albino and a few regular. They'll all get along great and leave that Gourami alone.

Good Luck

just FYI, I had 13 Tiger Barbs with 2 Gouramis and 4 Cories, 2 Plecos. Unfortunatly I have had some outbreak in my tank that has knocked my Barbs down to 3 hoping to resolve it with some Anti-bacterial food as I think we have identified it as dropsy finally.