well, the 55 gal tank is now cycled..... and when i arrive home...
these are the inhabitants:
1 black angel fish
2 golden gourami
2 gold fish long tail
2 gold fish fan tail
2 red tail bala shark; and
6 fish with stripe (but always swim together)

can you please help me identify those 6 stripe fishes!

Hi Paul, may be barbus nigrofasciatas (purple-ruby-headed barb grow 2.5" 22-24c temp gets white spot easy if conditions are poor.) and thats a may be I am not certain they don't keep still )))

they have stripes and red abdominal fin. they swim in school.


well, the wifey keeps on buying...and i will do the maintenance...
and i have no idea yet if what parameters they would thrive...
poor fish keeper i am

This may be?
aquaworld.netfirms.com/Cyprinoidae/Barbus/Barbus_tetrazona.htm

hey paul in india we call them as tiger fish.They are famous aqurium fish our country.

Yep those are Tiger Barbs.. I don't knoe the fancy latin name.. I had them when I first started my tank. They are real fin nippers.. even in a group of 6 they chased and stressed everything in the tank. but three died in the cycle process and the other three I gave away. I hope you have better luck with them.

thank you guys and gals... yeah..i found out they are called tiger barbs..
and yes, they are fin nippers.... however, if they don't behave well, i
could easily put them in my big tank for the oscars...

that is if the wifey is not around..or else i will be in trouble

update: so the gold fish is no match with the tiger barb... all fins are damage.
i put the two injured in a rehab bowl...but the wifey come home with these good
looking yellow fish... i am not sure what they are. any one can help me out:

Paul, those look to me like a Zebra Cichlid. I can tell ya from the pic, that the pinkish one is a male, and the two orangeish ones are female. The third Orange one I can't tell...

wow! that's great... thanks... at least i know where to start...
i have to look on how to rear them...the wifey loves to bring them home
but giving me all the works...

PAUL wrote:


Paul, keep the same water as you do with Oscars and give them lots of caves to hide in... They are very easy to keep. And they don't require near as much space as Osacrs.
They usually max out in size at about 6 inches. They are very active, and your Oscars will eat them!

Yip Tiger Barbs.
Note Barbs = Barbarians.
Not suitable for a community tank.I feed them to my Oscars,they love the chase.