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HI guys n gals.
So I started stocking my new 20ishG and I got 6 Odessas ( 2 males, 2 females, 2 maybes ) and 6 Chequered Barbs ( 1 baby male, 5 baby maybes ).
First up where the Chequereds, quite shy at first, but fine. Then came the Odessas, big shift in behaviour, everybody got together, up and out, and for a couple of days I had a 12 barb school. Great.
Last couple of days one of the Male Odessas started acting strange. He keeps to himself, in a dark corner of the tank, usually vertically, head down. I say " usually ", because if any other fish approaches his spot, he immediately chases after them, HARD. Not the usual Barb tease/chase that all Barbs do, what he does looks aggressive. After he's satisfied, he goes back to his spot.
So far the other fish are all acting normal, when chased they go behind the decor or the plants, or under the floating plants roots, and go on minding their own business. Nobody else seems stressed, nobody has bits missing, everything else seems fine for now... except for this one fish.
His coloring is picture perfect Male Odessa, my ammonia is close to zero ( below 0.5 as of yesterday, and I made a water change today ), ph is at 7.0, temp at 24/25C / 76F, all my other parameters are normal. All the other fish display what, to me, is normal behaviour and coloring.
This is my firs time keeping Odessas, so i'm not sure. This isn't normal, right? Did I just get a bad apple from my LFS, is there something I can do about it?
Would greatly appreciate your thoughts, thanks in advance.
So I started stocking my new 20ishG and I got 6 Odessas ( 2 males, 2 females, 2 maybes ) and 6 Chequered Barbs ( 1 baby male, 5 baby maybes ).
First up where the Chequereds, quite shy at first, but fine. Then came the Odessas, big shift in behaviour, everybody got together, up and out, and for a couple of days I had a 12 barb school. Great.
Last couple of days one of the Male Odessas started acting strange. He keeps to himself, in a dark corner of the tank, usually vertically, head down. I say " usually ", because if any other fish approaches his spot, he immediately chases after them, HARD. Not the usual Barb tease/chase that all Barbs do, what he does looks aggressive. After he's satisfied, he goes back to his spot.
So far the other fish are all acting normal, when chased they go behind the decor or the plants, or under the floating plants roots, and go on minding their own business. Nobody else seems stressed, nobody has bits missing, everything else seems fine for now... except for this one fish.
His coloring is picture perfect Male Odessa, my ammonia is close to zero ( below 0.5 as of yesterday, and I made a water change today ), ph is at 7.0, temp at 24/25C / 76F, all my other parameters are normal. All the other fish display what, to me, is normal behaviour and coloring.
This is my firs time keeping Odessas, so i'm not sure. This isn't normal, right? Did I just get a bad apple from my LFS, is there something I can do about it?
Would greatly appreciate your thoughts, thanks in advance.