Revision17
Fish Fanatic
My roommate just got two albino cories for his 10 gallon tank. Water looks good to all tests (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate), and the other fish are acting normally. Current stocking:
4 tiny tiger barbs
1 medium tiger barb - picks on the albinos when I flip the light on in the morning until it's fed (which I do immediately), the leaves them alone for the rest of the day
3 zebra danios
4 lemon tetras
2 albino corydoras
Except during feeding time, the albinos keep swimming back and forth across the front of the tank, almost all day. Sometimes they hang out in a corner close to the surface for about 15 minutes. The only time they are on the bottom of the tank is during feeding time (I break up and soak flakes in water and add them at the same time as dry flakes, so the soaked flakes sink the bottom), during which they happily vacuum up lots of flakes. Immediately after feeding, they head back to swimming back and forth against the glass.
Is this normal behavior? If not, is there anything that can be done to correct this?
4 tiny tiger barbs
1 medium tiger barb - picks on the albinos when I flip the light on in the morning until it's fed (which I do immediately), the leaves them alone for the rest of the day
3 zebra danios
4 lemon tetras
2 albino corydoras
Except during feeding time, the albinos keep swimming back and forth across the front of the tank, almost all day. Sometimes they hang out in a corner close to the surface for about 15 minutes. The only time they are on the bottom of the tank is during feeding time (I break up and soak flakes in water and add them at the same time as dry flakes, so the soaked flakes sink the bottom), during which they happily vacuum up lots of flakes. Immediately after feeding, they head back to swimming back and forth against the glass.
Is this normal behavior? If not, is there anything that can be done to correct this?