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Tiger Barbs, or Rosey Barbs?

I just bought some today at Walmart for my fishtank(now that the fish are in the pond). YAY!

Anyway, they're pretty cool...I know the tiger barbs can be mean and chew off fins on other fish--the guy told me to stick the tigers with the Roseys.

I love how they swim in schools....awesome striped fish!

I almost got Angelfish but I liked the Tiger Barbs better!

i love fish too

I have fish tank to love fish and birds
here is mind just got it not to long ago
some fish u can't see hiding lol

that is so cool

her is mine it is a community take it has barbs fancy tails sharks http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/sandy113_photo/IMG_0111.jpg

I don't have barbs but I wish I did. We bought 2 Jack Dempsey Cichlids and 2 parrot cichlids. Didn't find out until later that the parrots are brutally and cruelly dyed. The Jack is one Mean (fill in the blank). He killed the other Jack and then, JUMPED a barrier and brutally murdered my Mommy Parrot Cichlid and ate her babies. Big meanie. He's perfect fish-stick size too. You'd think you'd try to lay low when your owner loves fishsticks and you happen to be that size. lol

He'd better watch out huh?

Cool that everyone is sharing pics.

Here's mine now! The one up above the red roof is the Rosey Barb...the others striped ones are the tiger barbs.

lol

yes i would never get one of those fishes they are to mean for me but ur tank is nice

Oh, boy I'm ever so glad I found you.I love animals of course,I work in a pet shop.I have so many pets fish, frogs,crabs,geckos,dogs and others.Almost every companion of mine came from work.If an animal comes in injured or some one turns in an unwanted pet I get to have them if I want.Space is now very limited I have animals every where even living in my bathroom.I love every one of them and when my basement is finished I will have more.I will post photos as soon as I figure how to use it with my computer.

We can't wait to see the pics!

I can't wait to show you!

can not wait to see pix

I have a 3 legged gecko who was mistreated, and he loves to have his picture taken.So hold tight I'll get the camera working soon I hope.

I'd like you all to meet Fish stick I mean Jack. Jack is about 6 inches long, fin to nose, and really mean. He's also puuuurdy. I was vacuuming his rocks and getting the algae off the glass and he had the audacity to attack me! Me! 6 words for ya buddy, Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You.




Here's a better pic of him.

And this is little mean Fred, who'd beat up his wife and eat her babies all the time. Until we put his lovely wife (who's no longer with us thanks to Fish Stick over there) in a divided off part of the 29 gallon tank.

Jack is a GORGEOUS fish - too bad he's so mean!
Is he a cichlid? Why are the prettiest fish usually the meanest also???

Yup. He is a Jack Dempsey Cichlid. Named after some boxer. Fred is also a cichlid, but an "unnatural" hybrid: parrot cichlid. Fred is also dyed. Poor guy. They strip off their slime coat using a chemical and either inject or dredge the poor fish in an abrasive dye and then toss it into a highly medicated tank. Fred will only be about a quarter to half his natural size, if he hadn't been dyed; it's that stressful/harmful for the fish.

I did not know that parrot cichlid were tormented I will no longer order them for my pet shop.And I will make sure to write my distributer about my objection to cruelty to animals!

how do you post pictures on this forum? I have some on my computer ready to post, but I've never done this before! Help me!

I happened to go into a small fish shop yesterday, where I've seen some very nice large parrot fish before. I took a good look at the small sized ones, and was horrified to see that there were BLUE ones in that tank, among the red-orange and yellows. I asked the young kid who was working there about them, and he said the dye usually fades after a few years. I was totally upset about the whole thing, and will never buy anything from that shop - never have before, never will now!

Plants, parrot cichlids are naturally white with a slight pinkish or slight blueish tinge, any other color is dyed. Most are "dipped". Dipped in a solution to take off the slime coat, dipped in dye, then tossed in a medicated tank. Some fish are actually injected with dye with a needle (like neon tetras). This dye is actually known to break-down the cells of the fish and slowly destroy into the digestive tract. For all of these procedures the fish are in no way anesthetic-ized. There are also "tailless" cichlids out there, and they just snip of that back tail fin. Sooo mean. Most "neon" fish (neon tetras, etc) are dyed also. Here is a link that maybe helpful.

Lizard, you can post a pic by opening a photobucket account, and uploading your photos into it. Copy the URL location of the picture you want from photobucket, then when you are typing your reply (on the full reply, not the one at the bottom of this page), there is a button, top row, third from the left, with a little rectangle on it, click on it. Then paste in the URL for your photo. Click on the Preview post to make sure it shows up and you're good to go! I hope I explained that well. It really is terrible what some places do to fish and a lot of vendors don't even know. Thanks for not carrying fish that are so abused!

ok - here's a pic of my lizard... hopefully anyway..

and here you can see his bad leg...

I hope I can get better at this posting picture thing.

Ahhhh, he's adorable! Poor little fella. The bottom half of the first pic is greyed out. The pics need to be scaled down to something like 400x600, 'cause it eats up bandwith and all that jazz. Just click on edit on the pic in photobucket and at the top there is a drop-down menu which has sizes for reducing the pics. What is your little fellas name and breed?

You shouldn't need to repost the pic, because the URL you put in for the photo links directly to your photobucket account and any modifications made thereof. Have I confused you yet?

He is my name sake little lizard.He is a leopard gecko,fully grown he will be about 10inches.When I got him his condition was poor the vet said his leg had gotten infected,and told me he was going to die!The person or persons who had him left him in the trash out side my store.I could hear him cry(they sound just like babys)if he had not made noise I would have never found him.Very sad.

i apologized for editing this topic, however it had been hijacked into an animal cruelty post. I've removed the "extra" posts and anyone who wants to comment on fish is more than welcome to, and tomorrow i'll post pictures of my fish

the weathers getting nice enough for me to get fish for the pond!! im getting shubkins again!! i think loz got me hooked on those!!lol
:) weres your fishy pics jiffy? :)

What are shubkins?

ok, here are some not so good pics of my pond fish. i'll get more this weekend

awsome pics jiffy! they look big

sherri
shubkins [not sure i spelled that right] are like white calico goldfish. their realy neatlookin.
heres a pic of fishy and fishy i had

gonna clean out the pond abd get more this weekend!

Those are pretty. I have some goldfish called rosy reds in my pond. They are little.

those sound cool.

they were out of the shumbkins, so my hubby got me 2 coy fish. their neat!

Rosy reds are really minnows that why they are so small but they do well and they won't get very big fully grown.Cute.

oops! i ment koi fish! my hubby got me koi fish!

hi penny just want to say hello and also to let u know that i plan to start a veggie garden out side an i might put my garden items out that u sent me