Sleeping Rasboras... is this normal?

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MrSpike

Lover of Shrimp
Aug 28, 2007
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Issaquah, WA
I get home late from work (10-11 range) so my office where the tanks are is all-ready dark. Over the last few days when I come in and turn on the lights the rasboras are staying mostly still but twitching (it looks like trying to stay in one place in the current) while the ADF and Betta are usually swimming around. Tonight I came back and the rasboras were all near the ground doing the twitching thing. They were not on the gravel, just right near it doing the same twitching thing. Is this normal for a fish at night? Also the rasboras seem paler than they were when I first got them... is this normal?

Just wanting to make sure I don't need to worry. Thanks
 
does your betta dig up the gravel?
 
Most of our fish hover near the bottom when it is lights off, and a lot of them loose a lot, it not all, of their color (especially the neons).
If I turn the light on they look somewhat utterly surprised and a bit "out of it" but come to "live" very quickly!

L.
 
very normal for a fish to lose colour on entering your tank, which it should recover, and overnight, which it will recover very quickly when the lights go on.

as regards the night time behaviour, I would not be concerned if it happens only at night. I believe I have read posts which indicate that smaller fish commonly twitch as you describe during sleep.

you should get your lights on a timer - routine is very very good for fish, especially as regards a day/night cycle.
 
Coler said:
very normal for a fish to lose colour on entering your tank, which it should recover, and overnight, which it will recover very quickly when the lights go on.

as regards the night time behaviour, I would not be concerned if it happens only at night. I believe I have read posts which indicate that smaller fish commonly twitch as you describe during sleep.

you should get your lights on a timer - routine is very very good for fish, especially as regards a day/night cycle.
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Good idea. I do have a timer around here somewhere that I can use. I just worry that since I stay up late all the time I am going to screw with there natural cycle.
 
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