Tiger barb questions

I have a barbs tank and my barbs do this quite frequently. From what I've read on this subject and from what I have observed this is a behavior displayed when they are resting. Motionless with thier heads pointed downward. if you startle them than they wake up and start to swim again usually only to do it again in a few minutes. It's nothing to worry about. Apparently this is considered normal behavior for barbs in a resting state.

Marinemom
 
My barbs tend to be very active in the morning, take a mid day nap (headstanding) and siting on the botton and then get really active again at night just before lights out. Nothing to be worried about. My fish are the healthiest of the healthy and they do it as part of their normal behavior.
 
you guys covered it well..it's pretty normal for barbs resting to be headstanding. mine do it all the time.
 
Yes, buenos aires do the same thing when they are resting.Nothing to worry about.

Be happy!

Marinemom
 
I thought that when tiger barbs did headstands that was a sign of high nitrate levels? I'm probaly wrong though as popular consensus is against me(which includes roan who's right 99.872% of the time)
 
The headstanding is pretty normal, my barbs do it before lights out. The only thing you need to watch for is a lack of colour, if they head stand and go very pale (I'm talking the black stripes going faint grey and all the redness going) they are getting stressed by something or someone. Don't worry too much though 99.9% of headstanding is fine.

hope this helps

Knotty
 
knotty47 said:
The headstanding is pretty normal, my barbs do it before lights out. The only thing you need to watch for is a lack of colour, if they head stand and go very pale (I'm talking the black stripes going faint grey and all the redness going) they are getting stressed by something or someone. Don't worry too much though 99.9% of headstanding is fine.

hope this helps

Knotty
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That is true for the daytime but they tend to bleach out their colors at night when sleeping. Don't panic if it takes a few minutes after lights on prior to your tiger barbs gaining their stripes back. This is normal behavior. What is not normal is the colors fading mid day though when my male tigers duke it out, they change their black stripes to a metalic green color and their caudal ventral fins into a bright red/orange color (much more intense than the usual orange).
 
Sleeping/resting behavior. I'll agree and say totally normal, my barb does it frequently, sometimes she does it in the bubble column from my airstone and will "attack" downwards at the bubbles... pretty funny.
 
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