Tiger barbs are butt heads...

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alleykat0498

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Ever since I got back into this hobby about a year ago I have had a 55 with tiger barbs in it and a 10 gallon breeder on stand by just to get my hands wet with breeding, kinda an intro to fry care and such. After countless failure's and who knows how much wasted $$$ (not a phenomenal amount but still...) I gave up and switched focus to raising arowana's. Big jump I know. I found a 120 on craigslist and put all the barbs I have in it LAST night, and they decided to spawn during the evening feeding today, actually less than 24 hours after the transfer. They had absolutely no intrest in what i was offering because they were gobbling down the eggs that I tried atleast 30 times to produce.

Any one have a similar story? Just wondering because I feel like I just got slapped by 8 little fish....:nilly:
 
rofl! I'm sorry, but your post really is funny (although I'm sorry for your frustration). My Discus "shunned" me the same way. Didn't want the nice RO mixed water I kept them in at 1st and the "food that Discus love". They stole the Cory Cats wafers and didn't start breeding til after I started keeping them in my super hard tap water. Now they breed twice a week like clockwork, guard the eggs for a few days and then scarf them all down in a frenzy. I always tell people the only thing they're doing is making their own lunch :-)
 
Sometimes doing all the right things should produce results...then your fish makes a fool of you, especially when you change to different conditions and your fish respond. :nilly: Go figure? Sometimes it is a change in conditions that makes them do what we want...unfortunalely we don't always know what that might be? FRUSTRATING I KNOW!
 
As long as it's not me that has experienced this sort of aquatic mutiny! To go along with this my two baby silver arowana stopped eating today, so the spawning thing with the barbs was the last straw. I guess it goes to show that no matter how much their best interest is our goal they are not concerned with pleasing us...:swear:
 
its a conspiracy. I have had fish in the same tank together for years and had absolutly no luck in getting them to spawn. I wasn't really trying but I made a point to make sure everything was right. a friend of mine took to the hobby and really liked my fish so as I was planning on heading in a different direction I made a deal with him for the fish. 2 weeks later he calls me screaming mad he has some "bugs" swimming in his tank I go check it out and he has a couple thousand fry. I leant him a spare tank to raise them for a bit before selling them and he made $400 off them well now he was all excited and researched them and planned to continue breading them that was 4 years ago and the only spawn they produced grrrr I love fish and hate them.
 
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