75 Gallon "Community"

[BellycrawlerJaws]

Need more. They look really nice in a very big school.

Oh trust me I would, but it's hard to find large tiger barbs near me... Current stocking I'd say is full:

1 HRP male (3.5")
1 sun catfish (4.5" big mouth, eats small fish)
1 spotted Raphael (4" and approx 6 years old)
6 red hooks (5" around each)
7 red tail tinfoil barbs (3" each)
14 ish tiger barbs (2.5-3" each, FAT)
2 black ruby barbs (2.5")

Needless to say it's an ACTIVE tank, and feeding time is a swarm of splashes and silver. They're all moving to the 125 in about a year, and when that happens I'll be introducing a few small crypto species (most likely Sajica for a pair, and perhaps another crypto that I haven't kept before).

 

[fishnatics]

Oh trust me I would, but it's hard to find large tiger barbs near me... Current stocking I'd say is full:

1 HRP male (3.5")
1 sun catfish (4.5" big mouth, eats small fish)
1 spotted Raphael (4" and approx 6 years old)
6 red hooks (5" around each)
7 red tail tinfoil barbs (3" each)
14 ish tiger barbs (2.5-3" each, FAT)
2 black ruby barbs (2.5")

Needless to say it's an ACTIVE tank, and feeding time is a swarm of splashes and silver. They're all moving to the 125 in about a year, and when that happens I'll be introducing a few small crypto species (most likely Sajica for a pair, and perhaps another crypto that I haven't kept before).

Yes big ones are hard to find and when you do find them it's like $10 ea. It adds up quick if you end up getting 20 at a time. That's why I buy small ones and watch them grow.

 

[jeaninel]

You should get more black ruby barbs. Those are awesome too.

 

[BellycrawlerJaws]

Yes big ones are hard to find and when you do find them it's like $10 ea. It adds up quick if you end up getting 20 at a time. That's why I buy small ones and watch them grow.

I would, but my sun catfish would call them lunch. Big tiger barbs at my LFS usually run $6 each actually for 2.5"-3" specimens

You should get more black ruby barbs. Those are awesome too.

I would, they didn't have them at a large enough or healthy size at my LFS recently. This resulted in buying the tinfoil barbs

 

[BellycrawlerJaws]

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