Monster school of tiger barbs.

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Caincando1

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I've been wanting to do a monster school of tiger barbs. We are currently renting a house and I don't want to have to move a monster in a year or two. So I'm going to stick with mini monsters for a while. I've been trying to find a used 125 that local and cheap. I think I might have found one, and I'm going to go look at it this weekend.

I'm curious as to how many tiger barbs would work in a standard 125. I'm also thinking I'll add a dozen corys or so as a clean up crew. Of course I will make sure it very well filtered.
 
I'd say to go with a school of about 30 of them. Maybe you could add some rainbows into the mix as well.
 
I have 17 large Mexican tetras in a 125, they give it a lot of action
 
hmm, id say like 20 or so probably more, depending on what else u put in there.
 
tiger barb schools very beautifully and are active enough to be interesting as oppose to stationary schoolers like neon tetra.

My question is why so little fish? in a fully planted 125 gallon tank, you could easily handle 75 tiger barbs, and more if using fast growing stem plants + weekly water change.
 
20-30 would work. Why not throw some clown loaches in there as well. That would look really nice with a lot of action.
 
I didn't get a chance to go and look a the used 125 this weekend. But I still plan to put together a monster school of tiger barbs in the near future. I've done the community tanks in the past and I really like the idea of one single species of a colorful schooling fish. I love tiger barbs and thing a big tank full of them would be really cool. I like the idea of throwing in a few loaches as well.
 
You guys are goin soft on me.... 20-30???? You can easily go with about 75 like suggested before. It won't be hard for the tank to handle at all as long as you do your waterchanges.

Chad
 
gagaliya;509397; said:
tiger barb schools very beautifully and are active enough to be interesting as oppose to stationary schoolers like neon tetra.

My question is why so little fish? in a fully planted 125 gallon tank, you could easily handle 75 tiger barbs, and more if using fast growing stem plants + weekly water change.
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IMO that is way too many fish :WHOA:
 
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