With a few exceptions they are peaceful when surrounded by their own kind, like tiger barbs.

They are also used to create hybrid forms of "tiger barbs" for the aquarium trade.

Tiger barbs do best in soft, slightly acidic water.

Tiger barbs may sometimes be confused with Systomus anchisporus, which are similar in appearance.

Although they are compatible tankmates with fish such as tiger barbs, they will chase them.

Tiger barbs have been reported to be found in clear or turbid shallow waters of moderately flowing streams.

Notoriously nippy fish such as tiger barbs or large danios are poor choices for tank companions.

Inquisitive fish, like Tiger Barbs, may nibble at the snails' tentacles, but do not seem to cause any damage.

Freshwater fish include the rare Asian arawana, along with marbled gobys, harlequins, and tiger barbs.

The fish has commercial importance in the aquarium trade and is one of several species of Puntius used to create hybrid versions of "tiger barbs".

Tiger barbs and panda corydoras associate happily with clown loaches, and the three species may school together.

The tank has been set up for about 5-6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra.

Gold and albino tiger barbs are examples of commercially produced fish based on recessive xanthic (yellow) and albino genes.

P. stoliczkana is of commercial importance in the fish keeping industry and is used to create hybrid variants of tiger barbs and other barbs.

You may like to co-ordinate your fish, perhaps mixing Tiger Barbs with Clown Loach, so that the bottom-swimming fish and the midwater swimmers are similar in coloration and pattern.

Most of the livebearers, barbs, tetras, rasboras, danios, and rainbowfishes are peaceful, though a few species are fin nippers, most notably tiger barbs and serpae tetras.

Tiger barbs are also found in many other parts of Asia, and with little reliable collection data over long periods of time, definite conclusions about their natural geographic range versus established introductions are difficult.

One of the best tankmates for the tiger barb is a clown loach, which will school with the tiger barbs and act as they do, and the tigers act as the loaches do.

Of the total ornamental fish species imported into the United States in 1992, only 20 species account for more than 60% of the total number of specimens reported, with tiger barbs falling at tenth on the list, with 2.6 million individuals imported.

A few popular examples of East Asian fish include Gouramis, Striped Barbs, Checker Barbs, Tiger Barbs, Danios, Harlequins, Glass catfish, Pangasius catfish, Flying Foxes, Clown Loach and the Red Tailed Black Shark.

Though less common to the hobby than other related barbs, this peaceful, active, egg-laying fish is compatible with other related species in the home aquarium such as tiger barbs (Puntius tetrazona), and rosy barbs (Puntius conchonius) and other fast swimming cyprinid species of similar size.

Examples of colour morphs (not hybrids) of tiger barb include highly melanistic green tiger barbs that reflect green over their black because of the Tyndall effect, gold tiger barbs and albino tiger barbs.