Rubbing

Question
I have 4 tiger barbs and some of them keep rubbing themselves on this pot i have in the tank. Do they have a disease or do they do it because it feels good? If it is a disease, what can i use to treat it?

Answer
Hi Jennifer,
 It COULD be an early sign of a disease called ich.  If all the fish are doing it, I would suspect ich.  Get some ich treatment, I use a product called Rid-Ich and be prepared to use it at the first sign of little white dots on the fish (it looks like a little sprinkling of icing sugar).

-- Ron  
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