36 gallon bowfront (30"x15"x21")
400 gph filtration (2 hobs)
lightly planted (java moss, hornwort - later anubias, anacharis)
I will get my stock from a lfs a few blocks away (walking).
The store will order and keep them for 1 week on reserve, which I hope will mean they are settled in and healthy.
So here is what I would like after alot of research.
6-8 Barbs (Tiger, green moss, black ruby)
6-8 Harlequin Rasbora
4 panda corydora
And perhaps a few otocinclus a few months down the road.
The guys at the lfs don't like this idea lol.
I let them know I was aware of barb aggression, and they seemed a little more at ease when I mentioned keeping them in large enough numbers, but they still say barbs are meant for species only tanks.
It seems opinions are 50/50 on mixing them with other fish.
So questions I have...
1. will the 3 barbs I mentioned be considered a school ?
2. If you have experience with barbs, is it accucrate that tigers are more aggressive than the green moss ? And the green moss more than the Black rubies ?
The lfs has told me, if the barbs start nipping, I can return the harlequins and cory's, but not the barbs. And I won't get full credit if I return any. (The owner hates barbs, as he told me so many times lol).
I really have to get my stock from this lfs, I have no other choices locally.
Anyways, advice/opinions/barb horror stories welcome
400 gph filtration (2 hobs)
lightly planted (java moss, hornwort - later anubias, anacharis)
I will get my stock from a lfs a few blocks away (walking).
The store will order and keep them for 1 week on reserve, which I hope will mean they are settled in and healthy.
So here is what I would like after alot of research.
6-8 Barbs (Tiger, green moss, black ruby)
6-8 Harlequin Rasbora
4 panda corydora
And perhaps a few otocinclus a few months down the road.
The guys at the lfs don't like this idea lol.
I let them know I was aware of barb aggression, and they seemed a little more at ease when I mentioned keeping them in large enough numbers, but they still say barbs are meant for species only tanks.
It seems opinions are 50/50 on mixing them with other fish.
So questions I have...
1. will the 3 barbs I mentioned be considered a school ?
2. If you have experience with barbs, is it accucrate that tigers are more aggressive than the green moss ? And the green moss more than the Black rubies ?
The lfs has told me, if the barbs start nipping, I can return the harlequins and cory's, but not the barbs. And I won't get full credit if I return any. (The owner hates barbs, as he told me so many times lol).
I really have to get my stock from this lfs, I have no other choices locally.
Anyways, advice/opinions/barb horror stories welcome