Sammiec0108
New Member
Morning all,
My tank has been up and running for a year now, i've had a shoal of 12 pentazona barbs who have been in the tank from the beginning and have always been quite dosile and timid. They have got bigger and now seem to be much more confident shoaling around the tank. In the last few days they have become noticeably more boisterous, more chasing around within the group, this morning i have noticed one of the barbs has a glassy eye (one) and some of the tail fin is missing.
Is it likely this is due to some fighting? The glassy eye is just on one side so i'm thinking this is likely to be an injury rather than a disease - the colouring was slightly more reserved this morning and he was on his own hiding behind the heater but now seems to have rejoined the shoal and has coloured up a bit.
Any thoughts on what might be driving this slight change in barb behaviour and what i should do for the pentazona. They share the tank with 2 dwarf honey gourami's and some amano shrimp, everyone else doing well and did a water change, gravel vac and filter 'clean' yesterday. I have a quarantine tank set up, so could move the barb across, but i'm concerned about the isolation effect on a fish which seems happy as part of the group (albeit is perhaps taking a bit of a 'kicking' at the moment).
thank you very much in advance
Sammiec0108
My tank has been up and running for a year now, i've had a shoal of 12 pentazona barbs who have been in the tank from the beginning and have always been quite dosile and timid. They have got bigger and now seem to be much more confident shoaling around the tank. In the last few days they have become noticeably more boisterous, more chasing around within the group, this morning i have noticed one of the barbs has a glassy eye (one) and some of the tail fin is missing.
Is it likely this is due to some fighting? The glassy eye is just on one side so i'm thinking this is likely to be an injury rather than a disease - the colouring was slightly more reserved this morning and he was on his own hiding behind the heater but now seems to have rejoined the shoal and has coloured up a bit.
Any thoughts on what might be driving this slight change in barb behaviour and what i should do for the pentazona. They share the tank with 2 dwarf honey gourami's and some amano shrimp, everyone else doing well and did a water change, gravel vac and filter 'clean' yesterday. I have a quarantine tank set up, so could move the barb across, but i'm concerned about the isolation effect on a fish which seems happy as part of the group (albeit is perhaps taking a bit of a 'kicking' at the moment).
thank you very much in advance
Sammiec0108