New Green Tiger Barbs

schmitteo · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:09 pm Post subject: New Green Tiger Barbs

Hello all,

Just curious if someone might have any thoughts on an odd barb in the bunch or if I'm just impatient.

Saturday I introduced 5 new full sized green tiger barbs (3 males, 2 females.. I think). 4 of them were fine and frolicking as soon as they were acclimatized and out of the bag. One of them has been relatively inactive and does not have an appetite. It (one of the males, assuming because of orange nose and edge of dorsal fin) stays mostly in the same location and avoids the other fish in the tank for the most part. The other 4 will come school with it but it won't go with if the school moves.

All the other fish in the tank are fine, which is odd as i thought I might have some skittish white clouds (tired of them anyway).

Any thoughts about the one barb is a starving loner? Maybe it will come around with time. Could it be something with the pecking order in the school? Too many males not enough females?
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It doesn't sound like he's not schooling because he's being bullied or moved apart, it sounds to me more like stress from moving, but having said that none of the others suffered, perhaps this one is just 'sensitive'!

A few days with no food is not a major problem, hopefully he'll be up and about with the rest by now. Let us know?
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