twodoctors
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Hi,
You can see my stock in my signature. I have had my barbs for about 3 months now. They are all fine except 1 since I changed my lights on Friday. My water parameters are fine (everything zero, even nitrate). I did a probably 50-60% water change on Thursday (was going to do 30% but got carried away vacuuming the fine gravel). Didn't notice any problem on Thursday. The other problem was I forgot to turn the lights off overnight (on night shift). On Friday I changed one of the fluorescent tubes which had been faulty. My mistake I guess was I did it while the light was still sitting on the tank, and used my drill-driver. I noticed that my fishes didn't want to come up to the water anymore since I did that, thought they were all still feeding. The second meal after the light change they were fine, and realised that there's nothing wrong. I then notice that one of my regular tiger barb was missing. Eventually found it "sleeping" amongst the plants. Its colour was a bit off though, appearing stressed. Didn't do anything. Yesterday was the same but it did come up to feed, then drift back into a corner in a "sleeping" posture. Same today. Colour still a bit off compare to its mates. They are not attacking it (yet) so maybe it really is still a bit knacked from having extended lights-on period or stressed about me using my drill-driver. However all the other fishes are behaving normally. I know tiger barbs will attacking dying fish, which is not the case here.
It has no sign of injuries whatsoever and it has no ick etc. Just (almost) permanently in a sleeping posture.
I guess I can only watch and wait. Any ideas welcomed.
Adrian
You can see my stock in my signature. I have had my barbs for about 3 months now. They are all fine except 1 since I changed my lights on Friday. My water parameters are fine (everything zero, even nitrate). I did a probably 50-60% water change on Thursday (was going to do 30% but got carried away vacuuming the fine gravel). Didn't notice any problem on Thursday. The other problem was I forgot to turn the lights off overnight (on night shift). On Friday I changed one of the fluorescent tubes which had been faulty. My mistake I guess was I did it while the light was still sitting on the tank, and used my drill-driver. I noticed that my fishes didn't want to come up to the water anymore since I did that, thought they were all still feeding. The second meal after the light change they were fine, and realised that there's nothing wrong. I then notice that one of my regular tiger barb was missing. Eventually found it "sleeping" amongst the plants. Its colour was a bit off though, appearing stressed. Didn't do anything. Yesterday was the same but it did come up to feed, then drift back into a corner in a "sleeping" posture. Same today. Colour still a bit off compare to its mates. They are not attacking it (yet) so maybe it really is still a bit knacked from having extended lights-on period or stressed about me using my drill-driver. However all the other fishes are behaving normally. I know tiger barbs will attacking dying fish, which is not the case here.
It has no sign of injuries whatsoever and it has no ick etc. Just (almost) permanently in a sleeping posture.
I guess I can only watch and wait. Any ideas welcomed.
Adrian
