Tiger Barb Swimming Vertically (head Down)

So I have 4 tiger barbs in my 100L tank they all seem fine except for one that tends to hang out behind the filter alone from the rest. She doesn't seem sick, her colours aren't faded, and the water parameters are Ok. She only does this during certain times of the day, sometimes she's alone vertically next to the filter or behind it and other times she is fine and swimming with the group or getting chased by the bigger male. Is she sick? Please help!

 

That is normal behaviour, most of my tiger barbs do this when lights go out. It is their chilling/sleeping position. I would add another 3 of them they do better in bigger groups trust me on this.

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Thank u so much,you have just put my mind at ease, you truly are the BARB King,

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Cool man glad I could help, you will notice he does not stay like that constant. If you can pleae add another few of them.

 

Ok, I will get three more today or tomorrow.

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Nice you will see they will be much better, they like being in bigger groups.

They will start acting much better.

My huge group of 70 is very very very happy :nuts:

 

Wow 70? that's a lot, how big is your tank? They only have small ones at my LFS, would that matter? Also I would really like to breed, as I already have a male and a female, how hard is that gonna be?

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Yeah 70 Tiger barbs and then 12 Odessa barbs and 5 Black ruby barbs, go and check out my site I received over 45000 views in 1 year.

That would not matter if they are small they know they own kind so they will be fine. Breeding them I know it is possible but this has not bothered me yet.

Cannot help you with this @Tigerbarb has apparently bred them with luck before.

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Kul man, going straight to your page

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:rock:

 

Oh, one last question what type of food do you recommend?

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They eat anything I vary my food now and then sometimes I give them Ocean Nutrition Tropical flakes, Sera flakes and Tetra bits. Also like to treat them with bloodworms once a week or any other frozen fish food.

What do you think of that BIG group of BARBS of mine?

 

Firstly nice shaping, I love your plants and your barbs are nice and grown, simply Beautiful I LOVE IT, they look so nice together, I love it that they are always schooling.

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I meant scaping

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Thanks man, will be adding more plants tonight I got a serious case of collectoritus Yeah most of them are grown full size their are a couple of them that is still tiny which I got a few months ago.

Yeah you must see how awesome it looks like when I move in front of the tank the BIG group all follow me to either the left side or right side of the tank even if you just walk past the tank.

Will ask my wife to take a photo will post it on my thread sometime.

 

Amazing!!! Me likey

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Thanks man I do really enjoy them very very much they are awesome fish.

 

Can I please enquire why you say they prefer larger schools?

I currently have 3 in my tank, They are fairly large fish, so my plan was to not get any more of them. But I am curious as to whats the pros & cons are.