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geophagus take a big gulp of gravel, chew it and spit it out! thats funny! keep it going!
My oscar keeps pulling up ONE particular plastic plant and moves it around during the night...... I have buried this thing 10 times over the past few weeks. Maybe he is trying to tell me it's ugly and I should take it out.......
aquariumfishguy
12-31-2003, 9:44 AM
My cories swim around the TOP of the tank until I come within 20 feet of the tanks...then they go to the bottom as if they are caught!
My goldfish pushes his food to the bottom and then decides to eat it...
...my danios try to eat the plants and gets stuck under the roots!
OldVamp
12-31-2003, 10:24 AM
My Red Tail Sharks props themselves up on their 3 lower fins or jam themselves into a plant and "sleep" starting about 8-9pm every night.
PumaWard
12-31-2003, 10:45 AM
Dwarf gourami paces the glass non-stop... kind of annoying..:D
bozco
12-31-2003, 12:01 PM
My cobra angel tries to eat me every time I feed him.
And I have one glow light tetera that refuses to swim with the school. I think he's antisocial.
Oh, and this isn't a fish, but one of my dwarf frogs (1 inch long) swallowed one of my female guppies whole, she was about twice his size. He's just now slimming down again.
i had a platy that woudl shove herself into a plant too, i called her a tree climber!
fishdude
12-31-2003, 2:26 PM
my old dwarf gouramis getting dropsy and dieng:(
my green fire tetras sleep in my cabomba plant untill my betta steals their sleeping spots lol
F.sparverius
12-31-2003, 3:09 PM
I have one big male rosey barb that has a tendencey to get stuck in any and everything in the tank. I had a fish castle...he got stuck and I finally has to pull him out. I had a small spiral shell, somehow he managed to swim inside of it and get stuck. I had to blow him out of it with the air pump. Recently he swam up into the filter and was stuck in the back of the tank. I think the other fish gode him into swiming into dark holes.
Originally posted by F.sparverius
Recently he swam up into the filter and was stuck in the back of the tank. I think the other fish gode him into swiming into dark holes.
Have you seen "Finding Nemo"? :D If your filter suddenly stops working......beware the rolling bags of fish.
chefkeith
12-31-2003, 4:45 PM
In my new tank it looked like my Clown Loaches had smoke coming out of their gills. I had to look real close to see what was going on. I have playsand as my substrate in my new tank and my clown loaches suck it up in their mouths and blow it out though their gills. The sand is so fine that it makes a small cloud when it comes out of their gills.
Before I got this new tank running 2 weeks ago , I didn't even know clown loaches sifted the sand for food. I have sand in my old tank, but its a black coated sand thats to big for them to sift through. You can learn something new when you do something different.
Here's some pic's of my clown loaches-
http://home.comcast.net/~chefkeithallen/page4.html
Wippit Guud
12-31-2003, 6:28 PM
My crayfish does give a care in the world if I'm sitting there... unless I'm eating a subway sandwich, when he comes over and begs like a puppy dog.
virangos
12-31-2003, 7:04 PM
One of my Mollies rides the bubbles up the back of the tank, floats over to the filter return and rides the current across the top and down the front of the glass. Swims back to the bubbles and starts over.
sumoschro
12-31-2003, 7:09 PM
I have a piece of drift wood that is hollow and has a bunch of holes in it. My cory and kuhlis will peek out of a hole, go to another, peek out, etc., etc.
F.sparverius
12-31-2003, 7:11 PM
Yea I saw Finding Nemo. I laughed maniacally at the scene. It reminded me so much of my Rosey Barb. I can just imagine the whole tank full of fish trying to roll over to the pond only to be eatten by the 2 1/2 foot koi after they gained their freedom.:D
Dragon_Lord_Tia
12-31-2003, 7:25 PM
when i had my oscars they would scrach them selves along think 1 rock their was nothing wrong with them lol
my male A.stuartgranti 'usisya' try to spawn with the red empress females and he likes to bury his tail in the sand
my jags move the gravel infront of their loges etc so they only have to defend 1 end
Lauren
12-31-2003, 7:41 PM
all of my white clouds are very peaceful except for one, who's one love is to chase the other white clouds around like a danio.
Slappy*McFish
12-31-2003, 8:19 PM
My fish kinda float around in the water....flapping their fins....breathing..maybe looking around some...checking out the other fish....floating around some more, flapping fins.
Well, you get the idea.
Mark_b
01-01-2004, 3:13 PM
When im feeding my mbu puffer cockles my silver dollars try to steal them!If one manages it then it spend the next hour or so swimming round as fast as possible getting chased by the other three SD's.Eventually it'll lose them by hiding in the plants or under the driftwood, but if they spot it the chase starts again!
I dont understand why it takes them hours to eat a bit of cockle yet they can rip a nice plant apart in a few seconds!
soooooooo annoying!:laugh:
~*LuvMyKribs*~
01-01-2004, 3:41 PM
My mbuna are usually out and about swimming around the tank, but as soon as i open the lid and put the food in they swim into the rocks and hide. There they wait about 10 seconds and watch the food floating around from the safety of thier caves. Suddenly one will dart for a flake and all of them start darting. But they only eat one peice and return to thier cave. Then wait a few seconds and dart out again.
Once all the food is gone they all come out and return to thier normal swimming around the tank.
Very strange. :eek:
Id sharks freaking out when i do water changes or anything of the sort.
I try to not disturb them but they still go insane :argh
Dahlia
01-01-2004, 5:35 PM
Not a fish, but earlier this evening I fed my african dwarf frogs some bloodworms. The frogs frequently mistake each other's feet for food during feeding time which is amusing enough... one of them swimming frantically trying to dislodge another attached to its foot. But tonight they did something especially funny. Two frogs lunged for the same worm at the same time and each got one end. The worm in question was pretty sturdy so they spent fully 5 minutes stubbornly swimming around with their jaws locked together playing tug of war. (In the meantime the third frog was pretty happy with his undisturbed buffet). They started out kicking and pushing (looked like a girl fight) but one of the frogs was weaker than the other and mostly looked like a kite trailing along after the other frog. Eventually it needed air and gave up, and the fatter frog sucked down his prize.
On a fishier note, I've heard convicts pick a mate and stay monogamous for life, but I don't believe this since mine seem to firmly believe in wife swapping.
I had an oscar who would put himself to bed if I left the lights on too long. He would go behind his rock and sit on the bottom.
My midas, Sweetie, will get mad and bang the heater if my husband stays up too late on the computer. Sweetie also has his own toys and gets super angry when his toy friend(puffy plastic fish) comes to visit him. He sees that thing and starts zipping around the tank with his fins raised. He also chases it, bites it and will rip it out of your hand and shake it like a dog shakes a tug toy or sock. I need to get this on video. :D
I have a frontosa, Mugsy, who thinks he is a model and comes out to pose every time I have the camera out. (I had a cat who did that too). Before I removed the Kribs who lived with him, you could not photograph that tank without a Krib being in the photo. I had an African cichlid that was like that too, you couldn't photograph the Africans without Froggy being in the photo somewhere.
I have a Jaguar who bangs her heater for attention. One night, I decided to do my homework right in front of her tank so I could watch my new 33 long brackish (which sits underneath her tank on one of those double stands). I was there so long, she couldn't stand it any longer and banged the top of her hood so hard, she got water all over me, the cat sitting next to me, my stat book and my homework! She just about completely ruined the page I was on.
I have a tiretrack eel that takes vacations to the exotic locale of the inside of the Emp 400. I know he's been in there when the bio-wheels have been knocked off-kilter and I've actually caught him coming out of there twice.
I could go on and on seeing as how I have 120+ fish but I will stop for now.
:D
jeffro426
01-01-2004, 6:58 PM
Ive got 6 Mbuna in my 55 that nearly splash water out of the tank everytime i walk by thinking that their going to get food...they swear their starving!! Their like a bunch of puppy dogs.
fishdude
01-01-2004, 10:36 PM
my green fire tetras will be all hunky dory one minute then the next my betta charges and they go insane! they all split up from there school and dash around the tank.
and i have one fire green tetra that always will swim in the current of one of my powerheads and it can barely stay in it