I just picked up a 12/13 gallon tank the other week and filled it with some clean filtered water from Culligan, got the heater, filters, and everything up and running for 2 days. I bought some plant and added them 1 day into it. After 2 days I decided to add some "hardy" fish. I added 2- 1.75" tiger barbs (one male, one female), 2-Gouramis 1.5" (one blue, one gold). Everything seemed ok at firts the Gouramis were very skitish and the Barbs chased eachother. After the first night the chasing became very one sided and the larger male tiger barb has been constantly chasing an nipping at the female for 3 days. The Gourami's are left alone by the barbs and seem to get a long with everyone. A little mayhem, but no big problems....
1. Yesterday, day 2 of being in the tank, I noticed the male TB flashing at the plants, rocks, othe objects, and rubbing the glass walls. He still continues to chase the female, but when she is hiding or he loses interest (rare) he is flashing. What do you think is going on here? I got all the fish from fresh shipment at Petco.
2. The female Tiger Barb hasn't eaten for the past 2 days and spends all her time hiding and floating at a 45* downward angle. What should I do about this issue?
I added a spotted cory cat to hopefully clean up the left over food at the bottom of the tank last night. I just did a vacuum of the rocks and 25% water change.
Additives used: API stress coat, Nova aqua & AmQuel (only on intial setup), Top Fin bacteria supplement (last night).
Food: Tetra color.
Water: Initial- NO3-0, NO2-O, pH-6, Alk-0, TH-0 (ppm)
Current- NO3-20, NO2-O, pH-6, Alk-0, TH-0 (ppm)
Any help advice very much appreciated!
1. Yesterday, day 2 of being in the tank, I noticed the male TB flashing at the plants, rocks, othe objects, and rubbing the glass walls. He still continues to chase the female, but when she is hiding or he loses interest (rare) he is flashing. What do you think is going on here? I got all the fish from fresh shipment at Petco.
2. The female Tiger Barb hasn't eaten for the past 2 days and spends all her time hiding and floating at a 45* downward angle. What should I do about this issue?
I added a spotted cory cat to hopefully clean up the left over food at the bottom of the tank last night. I just did a vacuum of the rocks and 25% water change.
Additives used: API stress coat, Nova aqua & AmQuel (only on intial setup), Top Fin bacteria supplement (last night).
Food: Tetra color.
Water: Initial- NO3-0, NO2-O, pH-6, Alk-0, TH-0 (ppm)
Current- NO3-20, NO2-O, pH-6, Alk-0, TH-0 (ppm)
Any help advice very much appreciated!