Probably the best known and most commonly available of the barb species, the Tiger Barb is undoubtedly the fish which has given other members of this family such an undeserved bad reputation. In comparison to some other species, they can be a little nippy, but kept under the right circumstances, this can be controlled to a degree. Tiger Barbs should be kept in large shoals, really 8-10 fish forming the minimum recommended size group. These large sized groups normally keep them preoccupied with each other, rather than focussing their attentions on different fish species within the same aquarium. Common sense must be applied and no long-finned fish should be kept with Tiger Barbs. As Tiger Barbs are such an active species, they should be provided with a spacious aquarium aquascaped with robust plant species. Green, Albino, Platinum and Harlequin aquarium-bred strains are also available and these types can all be kept together in shoals very successfully. After decades in the hobby it's recently become clear that the fish we've known for years as P. tetrazona is an imposter, the real tetrazona has distinctive black pelvic fins and is rarely imported from its Sumatran homeland.
WE ALSO STOCK THEM IN GREEN,PLATNUM AND ALBINO ALL AT THE SAME PRICE.