Tiger barb getting darker
GEEZER
am looking for the answers to a few questions.
I have a 54 litre tank with :
5 Tiger Barbs
4 Neon Tetras
2 Guppys (1 yellow body,blue tail & 1 multi coloured body,orange tail)
2 Zebra Danios
1 Male Fighter
1 pink/gold almost transparent catfish(can anyone ID this for me)?
1 yellow/gold glass cleaner with disc mouth(ID for this also please)?
One of my Tigers has gone really dark in colour since last night. Any ideas
why?
Also my blue tailed Guppy has had most of the tail eaten but the orange
tailed one has only had a few nips.
I have 2 plastic plants,2 artifitial ferns & 2 live plants. Is this ok?
One of my plants has become very stringy in the last couple of days. It is a
long, grass- like yellow & green plant.Any ideas on this one?
I have only fed them on flake so far and treat the water with Interpet Fresh
start, Filter aid & Liquisil general tonic. Is this ok & what else should i
be doing?
I have read a couple of books but there is a LOT of conflicting info.
Thanks for any help offered,
GEEZER.
Liisa Sarakontu
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> I have a 54 litre tank with :
So very small tank. No room for all these you are trying to keep there,
and I guess that the water quality is already very bad unless you know what
you should look for and do numerous water changes in a week.
> 5 Tiger Barbs
Get rid of them. They need a bigger tank than this, and will nip the fins
of most other fish you have there.
> 4 Neon Tetras
Excellent choice, if your water isn't hard or very alkalic. They would
like to live in a bigger school.
> 2 Guppys (1 yellow body,blue tail & 1 multi coloured body,orange tail)
Good choice only if your water is hard and alkalic and there are no fin
nippers with them.
> 2 Zebra Danios
Schooling fish, which need a much bigger school and more room to swim, get
rid of them.
> 1 Male Fighter
Excellent choice, if there are no fin nippers in the tank and the water is
rather warm.
> 1 pink/gold almost transparent catfish(can anyone ID this for me)?
D'oh. There are a couple of thousand catfish species, and yellow
(leucistic) or albino color morphs of a couple of dozen very different
species like at least two cories, one syno, irridescent shark and a couple
of plecos. Anyway, this gets either too big or is a schooling fish. Get
rid of it.
> 1 yellow/gold glass cleaner with disc mouth(ID for this also please)?
Probably either a leucistic color morph of Chinese algae aater
(Gyrinocheilus aymonieri) or albino/leucistic bristlenose (Ancistrus sp.)
Will eventually get too big, and if it is CAE, might attack your other
fish, but you can keep this until it causes problems.
A good population for this tank: 8-10 neon tetras, 1 Siamese fighter,
perhaps one algae eater. That's all.
> One of my Tigers has gone really dark in colour since last night. Any
> ideas why?
It is either sick or stressed from bad water quality or stressed because it
is the omega of its pack and in such a small tank there is no room for it
to avoid its bully mates. Or if you bought them less than 4 days ago, it
might be just mildly stressed from new surroundings.
> Also my blue tailed Guppy has had most of the tail eaten but the orange
> tailed one has only had a few nips.
Tiger barbs have done it, and will finish the other tail too. Then goes
the tail of the poor fighter.
> I have 2 plastic plants,2 artifitial ferns & 2 live plants. Is this ok?
That's certainly a lot better than nothing, but 100 % live plants is the
best for anything that doesn't destroy all plantys in a couple of momenst
(big cichlids, goldfish, pacus, some plecos).
> One of my plants has become very stringy in the last couple of days. It
> is a long, grass- like yellow & green plant.Any ideas on this one?
"Yellow and green" might mean that it is not a water plant but a
terrestrial species, and it will just die when kept under water for long
periods. A pic would help.
Liisa
ainizz
ideas
> why?
ruby barbs as the male can change color when its time to mate. Try to find a
picture of black ruby barb and compare it to yours and see if i'm right.
please correct me if i'm wrong..