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LMOUTHBASS
08-12-2003, 2:06 PM
??? whats it dot hat makes it strange or different or weird etc
My Rhino pleco Rammstein of course!
When he's mad at me he gives me "the fin", his version of flyin a bird. He clamps his tail tight and sticks that dorsal fin up as high as it'll go.
Rometiklan
08-12-2003, 2:50 PM
You know, I do not have any fish that act strangely or do anything out of the ordinary. All my fish are pretty ordinary examples of their species. My corydoras have a lot of personality, but they behave as most other Corys do.
Andy16
08-12-2003, 2:55 PM
All my fish are pretty broing but probably my afra.
tricksterpup
08-12-2003, 3:07 PM
Heterandria Formosa (least killiefish) is the fish that i have that is the most unique. it one of the smallest live bearers and is the smallest fish in the USA. They are very hardy and do well in small planted tanks such as a 5 or a 2.5 plant tank. I already have 2 colonies going and really thinking on starting up some more.
http://floridafisheries.com/images/fish-pic/het-for.jpg
125gJoe
08-12-2003, 3:07 PM
Discus. :)
http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL59/715239/1597696/31297037.jpg
PumaWard
08-12-2003, 3:56 PM
I would have to say my common pleco. He seems very intelligent (for a pleco anyway). He's allowed me to pet him and bury him in sand. He's also very good at blending in, he gets tiger stripes when he's on the bottom of the tank.
I'd have to say my clown knife. He(?) likes to sleep in the back corners of the tank standing on his head. I don't know if this is common or not, but I have never heard of it before.
Of course that's not saying much since I've only been keeping fish for the last couple of years.
SnakeIce
08-12-2003, 7:35 PM
my betta and angel fish compete with each other for my attention. And if I have not paid the tank enough atention(in the angelfish's opinion) he won't eat unless I sit there and watch him
but the most interesting fish I have been around was my dads common chinese algea eater. no joke, he played with the marbles that were in the tank hitting them around the tank or some times burrying them all under his house which of course then he would sulk cause he lost all his marbles. he got so good a bashing the marbles around Dad had to remove the marble cause we were worried about him breaking the tank with them.
then we put some of the beads from the strechy hair things and a hollow red plastic marble in for him to play with. he actually did more with that hollow one than the others cause it was lighter and easyer to get off the bottom
the most remarkable thing he did several times is this... he took the hollow bead and bopped it up off the bottom and kept that up until one of the other fish swam by and then he tried to hit them with it. I saw him succeed once at actually hitting the other fish with the bead.
there was a sissor-tail rasbora that he played with too. they would play chase back and forth with each other.
I swear that this is true and I am not making it up. we think that he got the idea of making noise by hitting the glass with the marbles from a really aggressive angel that hit the thermometer around the tank.
I think my most interesting fish would have to be my wifes albino catfish...
why you ask?!
because it has absolutely no fins at all!!!
I had some rasboras that every single fin of that little albino. I have since traded those rasboras in...
That little albino is good and fat though, he eats a lot. He just has a few problems swimming around. I nick named him "Rollie Pollie" cuz when he swims into a current, the current rolls him over and over. But that strong willed albino pulls it together and finds more scraps to eat.
When its time for him to rest he wedges himself under a rock so he wont roll around...
caffeine
08-12-2003, 9:35 PM
My tank is not very big, nor do I have that many different kinds of fish, but I think my favorite is my Betta. He is just so graceful and slowly flows through the water checking everything out. Also when I put my hand in there with food he always swims right up to it and waits for something to come out of my hand.
cdawson
08-12-2003, 11:21 PM
I'd have to say my green spotted puffer, he's got so much personality. He even looks guilty when he's done something bad (he looked REALLY guilty when I just got home from my holiday and I couldn't figure out why. Until I noticed my orange lyretail molly was missing!!!)
Cearbhaill
08-13-2003, 12:25 PM
Bob.
We saw Bob swimming in a tankful of gorgeous Red and White Ryunkins- he was definitely odd man out and next to them unattractive to boot. An ill bred Oranda with dull plain colors just didn't look interesting- seemed a good enough reason to bring him home.
Of course he's turned out to be the personality fish of all the Goldfish- probably just very hungry but it passes for personality... so be it.
At any rate he can hang with a good inch of his head out of the water and beg me to drop pellets into his mouth. He can snap/crackle/pop you awake with his ravenous lip smacking. He can follow a siphon hose around with ungoldfishy agility and dare you to suck out an eyeball. He follows the algae pads, the front glass wipings- anything involving a human hand and he is right there.
I swear to you that he looks me straight in the eye like one of the dogs waiting for you to get up and make dinner- he's demanding food! food! food!
bortsamson
08-13-2003, 12:34 PM
One of black skirt tetras. His name is Bill. Anytime I am near the tank, he follows me around. Of course my neons are cool too, they roam around the tank like a group of army guys marching. But by far the most entertaining is my pleco, specially when he hangs upside down on my ornaments, lol
Winnie
08-13-2003, 1:58 PM
I love watching my red tail shark, who has grown quite large and is incredibly beautiful. He has decided to take over a second cave - his first being a black UV plumbing elbow covered with rocks. Now he commutes to his summer home across the tank - a coffee mug with a rock covering part of the opening. It takes a lot of energy for him to guard both these lairs. No sooner does he leave one than my three clown loaches go for a swim through it, which makes him crazy, so back he goes, leaving his second cave unguarded. Of course the clown loaches merrily go over to that one. (Meanwhile, the clown loaches have about three caves of their own....)