Five banded (Pentazona) barb

[serbusfish]

I was just wondering if a group of these would mix with my current/planned species:

White Cloud Mountain Minnows
Black Skirt Tetras
Pearl Gourami
Amano Shrimp
Pair of Bolivian Rams
African Dwarf Frogs

Id also consider swapping the Minnows for a group of them if needs be as I know Minnows prefer cooler temps and my tank is between 24.4 - 24.9'c.

[steeler1]

The five banded barb likes their water a little warmer 26-29°C / 79-84° F range. so you might trade in the white clouds. Heres a site with very good information on them.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...57316858,d.cGE

[serbusfish]

The five banded barb likes their water a little warmer 26-29°C / 79-84° F range. so you might trade in the white clouds. Heres a site with very good information on them.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...57316858,d.cGE

That website says there temp range is 21 - 26'c?

[steeler1]

That website says there temp range is 21 - 26'c?

Your totaly right I took an article from our own website http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...57700187,d.cGE than sent you to another. My Bad .

[serbusfish]

Your totaly right I took an article from our own website http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...57700187,d.cGE than sent you to another. My Bad .

No problem :)

Either way though I am seeing different temperature ranges on every website I visit, one says 21 - 26, another says 25 - 28, another says 23 - 29, and yours says 26 - 29. A store near me has them in stock so I will ask what temps they keep theirs at, I am probably going to pick some up anyway, they sell 5 for £10.

[steeler1]

Either way they are a great alternative to people that want to keep Tiger barbs but dislike their agressive nature.

If you have found them I would get them as they are not always easy to find.

[Lady Hobbs]

I think you should pass on those barbs. You already have 6 species of fish in this 29 gallon tank. Your frogs will probably eat the shrimp.

[serbusfish]

I think you should pass on those barbs. You already have 6 species of fish in this 29 gallon tank. Your frogs will probably eat the shrimp.

I am getting rid of the Black Skirts, and atm I have no frogs. Im pretty sure dwarf frogs are too small to eat Amano shrimps anyway? People actually recommend keeping cherry shrimp with them so I would have thought Amano's would be fine... the shrimp are always high in the plants anyway and dwarf frogs are usually on the bottom.

[Lady Hobbs]

I wasn't sure. Never had frogs before but thought baby shrimp might be a good lunch for them.

[serbusfish]

Dwarf frogs are very small, the clawed frogs however would eat shrimp + fish as they grow to around 5 inches.

Anyway I've had the most stressful experience today! I purchased some pentazona barbs and figured whilst they are in the bag I can transfer the black skirts to another bag, well the black skirts had other ideas. I just could not catch them, they kept darting behind my plants, I ended up removing almost all of them, this resulted in stress for all my fish as tonnes of dirt was kicked up so I ended up doing a water change whilst I siphoned it all out.

But the black skirts are now in the family tank, the pentazona's are in mine and I also added some more neons which seem much happier now the black skirts are gone. But boy was I getting mad trying to catch the blighters! Never doing that again.