Lone neon tetra?

[AlexTheGreat]

I have a 20g tank with 7 neon tetras in it at the moment. My tank caught some ick but I managed to fix it and before that I had 13 neon tetras. After all that i have this one neon that seems to hang around on his own and chase away some of the other tetras so he has the whole front of the tank to himself. I dont know if this is a behavior he picked up from my barbs or if he has some sort of illness

 

[Delapool]

Doesn't sound like an illness (the chasing). Perhaps just not social.

Not a female per chance? May hide away if ready with eggs.

 

[AlexTheGreat]

I cant tell if its a female but it seems to be spontaneous whenever it happens. How would you tell the difference?

 

[Delapool]

Any loss of colour (when rest are good) or scales pine-coning may be illness ime.

 

[AlexTheGreat]

Any loss of colour (when rest are good) or scales pine-coning may be illness ime.

The color has actually gotton better but I did just recently go through an ich infection but I managed to medicate my tank and it went away.

 

[Coyne]

In my (limited) experience, there always seems to be an "odd man out" in a small school of fish like that. I don't know what social dynamic is at play to cause this. I suspect that the loner fish is just refusing to find its place within the pecking order. If you bring the school back up in numbers it may rejoin.

 

[AlexTheGreat]

In my (limited) experience, there always seems to be an "odd man out" in a small school of fish like that. I don't know what social dynamic is at play to cause this. I suspect that the loner fish is just refusing to find its place within the pecking order. If you bring the school back up in numbers it may rejoin.

Alright ill try doing that thank you for the help