Grrr, Bad Tiger Barbs!

[DazedNCoNfUsEd]

I guess mixing the two wasn't such a great idea. I wake up this morning to find one Pictus cat sticking to my filter and one more hanging on for dear life. So I took the almost dead one and moved him to my other tank, well he died about 20 mins later. I also put another decoration with a little hole in it so the other two that were left could hide in. Well about an hour later I see another one barely moving. So I move the last two over to my other tank, so far the one is still struggling but the other is swimming all crazy like normal.

The only thing I can figure is it was those damn tiger barbs. All 4 were fine last night, I would see the tigers chase at them a little, and they would chase back, but nothing too serious. I'm guessing last night they must've got to em real bad. The cats were only about 2 inches which was probably another mistake on my part. The Tigers are also younggins, about an inch at the most. I checked the water:

NH3- dead 0
NO3- dead 0
NO4- between 10 and 20

Does anyone know if bigger Pictus's would be able to stand up to the Tigers? I have 7 of them so I figured they would keep the aggression to themselves for the most part. I liked those littles cats too! I'm almost ready to find someone with a nice big Oscar and offer him a free snack!

 

[edgun88]

I dunno. I hear that you should keep Nitrate levels between 5 - 10 ppm and anything over 10 ppm can cause stress maybe the stress caused it. Anyway sorry to hear that.

 

[DazedNCoNfUsEd]

OK what if I used 3-4 Yo-Yo Loaches instead of the Pictus cats, has anyone had any experience with those guys together with the Terror, I mean Tiger Barbs?


They must've just got bored messing around with each other. It's funny because every once in a while they look like they're gonna go after Big Sev, but he shows them whos boss real quick! And he's only about 2 and half inches right now at the most. Sometimes they'll be sitting there in their little group and he'll just barge right through them like he owns the place, well I guess he does really.