Tiger barb odd behavior

My tiger barbs swim this way a lot. The nose down in a group thing seems
very common. They do this at length when
particularly excited (I approach to feed them).


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"Tedd" wrote in message
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be it just wants a little 'quiet time'. there are a few times mine have
done
the same thing off and on. one will break away from the pack and just
hover
in a corner somewhere. in one case it lasted for about a month with one
particular barb. occasionally one of the others would swim over by him
and
mimic his behavior and/or nip at him, wait a sec, then swim off. maybe
just
checking on him, *shrug*. other times he would come blasting out of his
corner with no warning to nip/peck (play) with one of the others then
just
as abruptly run back and assume his original position.


My barbs exhibit the same behavior. I would surmise it's somewhat normal.