Stocking Ideas

[Bumblebee Grouper]

Hello, I have a 30g tank with 5 tiger barbs and I was thinking about adding either a red tail shark or a rainbow shark and killifish. Would they fight or just casually chase eachother from time to time?

 

[Le Fishê]

Hello, I have a 30g tank with 5 tiger barbs and I was thinking about adding either a red tail shark or a rainbow shark and killifish. Would they fight or just casually chase eachother from time to time?

Depending on the killifish I guess you should be fine

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

30g is too small for a red tail or rainbow shark unfortunately, but I've got no clue on killifish. Keep in mind that tiger barbs are an aggressive species, and it may be best to get a few more in your tank to avoid extreme aggression that comes from keeping them in smaller groups.

 

[Byron]

Hello, I have a 30g tank with 5 tiger barbs and I was thinking about adding either a red tail shark or a rainbow shark and killifish. Would they fight or just casually chase eachother from time to time?

Assuming the fish are true to their inherent traits, you would not have most of them for long.

The "sharks" need a much larger tank (this has come up in other of your threads) and the RTS has a notoriety for attacking vertical-bar fish (like the Tiger Barb). Tiger Barb are fin nippers and need a larger group, say 10-12 minimum, and this could work in your 35g, on their own.

Killifish obviously would not fit in with a tank of Tiger Barb.

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

Assuming the fish are true to their inherent traits, you would not have most of them for long.

The "sharks" need a much larger tank (this has come up in other of your threads) and the RTS has a notoriety for attacking vertical-bar fish (like the Tiger Barb). Tiger Barb are fin nippers and need a larger group, say 10-12 minimum, and this could work in your 35g, on their own.

Killifish obviously would not fit in with a tank of Tiger Barb.

Just wondering, since you put "shark" in quotations, are they not true sharks?

 

[Byron]

Just wondering, since you put "shark" in quotations, are they not true sharks?

No, they are not, not even remotely related, aside from being fish. These are various species of cyprinid which includes the loaches, barbs, rasboras and danios.

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

No, they are not, not even remotely related, aside from being fish. These are various species of cyprinid which includes the loaches, barbs, rasboras and danios.

Wow, that's interesting!

 

[mmarx339]

Depending on the killifish I guess you should be fine

Just get a pair of blue gularis killifish and get rid of everything else

 

[I Like Rare Fish]

Move Tiger Barbs, and get a large school of Clown Killifish.