i have a pair of tinfoil barbs that are 6 inches or a bit longer. they have begun blinding my larger fish. Am considering selling them or even flushing them but am at my whits end with them, anybody know what i can do with them? I want to keep my tank as is but if they are doing this i dont know what i can do with them. its like they dont like the bigger fish then them and are taking them down. and wanna be the big fish in the tank. never had this problem before and dont know what to do. Anyone want them?

Can you explain what you mean by blinding your fish? Also what size tank and other fish are in it ? Tinfoil barbs are shoaling fish,particularly if only two of them are in the tank,they prefer larger numbers where they tend to pick on one another. Ideally 5 at minimum but remember they grow large upwards to 14 inches even. So size of your tank is important,defintely needs to be over 200 litres minimum (and thats abit on the small size to be honest)with a good current going through the water.
Gavin

gery evans took 3 tinfoils of me that were outgrowing a 300litre tank,and put them in the huge tank in the crumlin childrens hospital.there is another 3 or 4 there also and they look great.Maybe you could contact him to see if there is the room for them
john

gery evans took 3 tinfoils of me that were outgrowing a 300litre tank,and put them in the huge tank in the crumlin childrens hospital.there is another 3 or 4 there also and they look great.Maybe you could contact him to see if there is the room for them
john

explain how they are blinding my fish, gee the biting out of the eyes of any larger fish. that is what i mean about blinding my other fish. If someone could give the persons details i will contact them for the fish donation. I only have 2, in a 200 liter tank along with 9 scissor tails a male fire mouth and 2 catfish ( as per another post) and a couple of green tiger barbs. did have 2 large lovely goldfish and the two tinfoils physically went on both sides and literally ate the eyes off a living fish. IM getting ready to upgrade to a 600 lter as hubby downgraded his marine tank and i got his big tank. and am planning to get that done by tuesday next week. had to get the marine muck out of the tank to convert it to fresh water. I still cant understand why those friggin fish are doing this. so any explainations and a new home near wexford area would be a good thing. really dont wanna flush them would rather they get a new home.

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