I have a 12 gallon tank with 2 small Kuhli loaches and 3 guppies. There are two filters, one a Aqua One Clear View turning over 50 gallons per hour (it's kind of like a Aquaclear filter) and another just the normal fill-with-foam-rings sort (have no idea what it's called) and the water is 7.2 (the water from the tap is 8.4, I can't get it to stay stable any lower than 7.2).
Yesterday we bought 3 small (1.5cm) tiger barbs, on the advice that 3 would 'fit' and keeping a group of 3 would prevent them from nipping the guppies. Well, one of the tiger barbs has terrified and bullied the two other barbs so that one's hiding behind the internal filter and the other's hiding behind the Kuhli loaches' hidy-log.
The loaches and the guppies are being ignored by the bully barb and are swimming around normally (the loaches come out at around 7 at night but they pop out sporadically during the day), but every time the two bullied barbs come out, they're quickly chased by bully barb. The poor things' stripes have faded and they look pretty scared.
I have an empty 6.5 gallon tank (guestimate...it was a tank from Kmart) BUT it's empty. I was going to add a little water from my goldfish's tank (2 foot tank...again, not sure about the volume) and a little from my Siamese's Tank (4.5 gallons) and a little from his current tank so the water was 'cycled' and separate him.
Right? Wrong? Am I heading for a disaster? I don't normally have a problem with my fish, so this is a little perplexing.
Thak-you for your help!!
Yesterday we bought 3 small (1.5cm) tiger barbs, on the advice that 3 would 'fit' and keeping a group of 3 would prevent them from nipping the guppies. Well, one of the tiger barbs has terrified and bullied the two other barbs so that one's hiding behind the internal filter and the other's hiding behind the Kuhli loaches' hidy-log.
The loaches and the guppies are being ignored by the bully barb and are swimming around normally (the loaches come out at around 7 at night but they pop out sporadically during the day), but every time the two bullied barbs come out, they're quickly chased by bully barb. The poor things' stripes have faded and they look pretty scared.
I have an empty 6.5 gallon tank (guestimate...it was a tank from Kmart) BUT it's empty. I was going to add a little water from my goldfish's tank (2 foot tank...again, not sure about the volume) and a little from my Siamese's Tank (4.5 gallons) and a little from his current tank so the water was 'cycled' and separate him.
Right? Wrong? Am I heading for a disaster? I don't normally have a problem with my fish, so this is a little perplexing.
Thak-you for your help!!