My LFS has some nice looking tiger barbs for sale. My planted 75g has 7 neons, 5 black skirt tetras, and 7 zebra danios. I would like to add some barbs but there seems to be a controversy about their suitability in a community tank. Some info says they are ok as long as there are six or more while other info says they will nip slow moving fish. The black skirts spend much of their day slowly moving or even stationary. Anyone have any experience with these fish?

From my experience Tiger Barbs are very nippy fish and shouldn't be housed with really slow moving fish, fish with long fins, or extremely peaceful fish as they may get harassed. Keeping them in a school of 6 or more helps keep their nipping to themselves, but there is still a chance they may nip other fish in your tank. The Zebra Danios you have should be alright since they are fast moving fish, the blackskirt tetras might get bullied especially if they are slow moving with long fins, and Neon tetras are very timid fish and might also get very stressed being in a tank with a school of Tiger Barbs. I would personally think that a Tiger Barbs species tank would be the way to go as there wouldn't be any other fish in the tank for them to harass. If you wanted to keep fish with Tiger Barbs I would say Loaches, Catfish, Sharks, Large schooling fish, and Gouramis.

I didn't keep the Tiger Barbs with anyother fish so I can't say from personal experience but from watching them interact with eachother and hearing from other Tiger Barbs keepers they aren't very suitable for a peaceful community tank. I'm sure others will chime in. :)

I have seen them kept peacefully with angelfish, catfish, sharks, clown loaches, gouramis and mollies.

I can't read that long of a paragragh, but danios are very quick and nip all the time at pretty fins, any slow moving fish, because they are a very fast and efficient, I know that. Good thing I know how type a fish, having had them, with guppies.

Ever hear of head light, tail light tetras?. See how they do with danios? Just kidding dont do it.

I have tiger barbs and black skirt tetras. The tiger barbs never nip the fins of any of the other fish, I do keep a school of 3 and mostly they just nip and chase each other around. I have even kept them with angelfish, but that's just my experience. Overall a good choice. Mine are nice and really fat! :)

It's best to keep them with smi-aggresive fish such as, giant danio, stripe danio, white cloud and other small fast fish that won't get beat up by the barbs, or ones that can't eat or beat up the barbs. :)