oscars and tinfoil barb

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yeah my tinfoil barb died last night?? so i don't know what was up with him. my other tin foil barb is like really shaky. and seems to be a little twitchy??  thank you
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my tin foil barb keeps swimming straight up like it's dancing and i don't know what the problem is or if there is a problem at all??? and the other one doesn't do it?? and i have an albino oscar that i just recently got and he has just laid at the bottom of the tank for the past couple of days is there something wrong with him?? and i haven't seen him eat either. when i put him in i used a stress coat to help him?? thank you very much
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Hi Scorpio,
  I've never seen a tin foil barb do that but it might not be anything wrong.  

  Oscars will lie on the bottom of the tank, even if they are perfectly healthy.  In the wild they do this as a hunting technique.  They lie on the bottom, wait for a little fish to get close, then dash up and eat it.  

-- Ron
  rcoleman@cichlidresearch.com
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Hi Scorpio,
  I'm sorry to hear that.  Does the other barb have any signs of ick (it would look like tiny little white dots all over the body and fins -- sort of like someone sprinkled icing sugar on the fish)?

-- Ron
  rcoleman@cichlidresearch.com
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