Playing music to fish?

[Rbishop]

Mine do not care for music, however, if you put up a Dean Koontz book......

 

[Fungi]

Or a red-hot page turner like a Tom Clancy action novel...

 

[legendaryfrog]

I have a piano right next to my goldfish tank, and I've noticed the fish react differently when I play different music.

So far, they don't like jazz, appreciate slower classical music, and go mad when I play Rachmaninoff.

 

[Shagmaster]

and go mad when I play Rachmaninoff.

LOL, I will have to try that with my fish.




Wait, you can play Rachmaninoff! Im impressed!

 

[mooosic]

I dont meen to burst your bubble. But about the ipod, there is now way they can feel the vibrations from earbuds through the tank glass. I have a 12" in my room and thats almost not enough for the fish too even slightly feel, and my room is 14' by 9'. Now the piano right next to the tanks.....that i could most diffenatly see.

 

[polypterus101]

You play arch enemy for you fish??
For those of you who dont know what it is-
www.myspace.com/archenemyhttp://www.myspace.com/archememy

 

[ChrisWalker]

According to Wikipedia, Goldfish in particular have extremely good hearing and can recognise different people's voices. Whether this is a similar story for all fish I don't know.

I have my computer quite near my fish tank, and play my electric guitar near it. The tropical fish don't react really...

My goldfish however respond to me calling them from outside the room lol.

 

[Corvina]

A Good Science Fair Project

This would be a great experiment for a class or science fair project.
Do certain tones and what levels of frequency do certain species of fish react to? What attracts them? What repels them?
We know that Whales & Dolphins react to them and even use them to communicate, but they are mammals.
On the other hand it's probably been done.
Never mind.

 

[legendaryfrog]

This would be a great experiment for a class or science fair project.
Do certain tones and what levels of frequency do certain species of fish react to? What attracts them? What repels them?
We know that Whales & Dolphins react to them and even use them to communicate, but they are mammals.
On the other hand it's probably been done.
Never mind.

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fish in science experiments are often puu under the wrong conditions, uncycled tanks, etc.

I would please ask everyone reading the above not to get any ideas......

 

[legendaryfrog]

None of my tropical fish react to my voice other than my 2 puffers I keep at work.

Oh, and btw, Rachmaninoff isn't as hard as everyone puts it up to be.