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Though I would see what your favourite barbs are Here are my favourites barbs Oreichthys crenuchoides and dawkinsia rohani and red panda barbs
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Once I get my bluegreen algae under control and I've built my cherry barb population back up, I'm thinking of trying odessa barbs again. A few years ago I had added to my odessa barbs and it included a male that was probably 50-100% bigger than my other odessas. He killed all my new odessas, all of my existing odessas, and some of my cherry barbs I had at the time. I really like how odessa barbs look. Before I got that batch they had behaved very well in my tank. I'd really like to try them again but not have a murder spree happen again. Any ideas as to what was the likely cause of my problems? I'm thinking my mistake was adding an odessa that was so much bigger than the others and my other fish. That if that new group were all the same size that the problem wouldn't have happened. I don't remember exactly, but the new group was 3-5 fish and I was probably replacing since I had them a while. The existing group was probably 4-6 fish. The cherry barbs were about 6-10 in number. It's a 38 gallon Aqueon tank. I don't remember if it was fake or real plants at that point. If fake, I had a lot of cover available. If early in my real plant journey, probably kind of sparse.
