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I have 3 bloodfin Tetras that are "Surfers!"

They will start at the bottom back of my 25 gal tank, swim up to the output from my eclipse hood and "surf" down and across to the other side.

They'll do this for hours! It's really fun to watch!
 
I have 3 angelfish in my 125g, but one of them sure is an attention hound.

I have a chair at the end of the tank that I sit in because I like the perspective of looking down the tank from one end and watching the fish swim all the way down and then back up again. Anyway, this one angelfish will come and park himself in front of me everytime I sit down to watch the tank. If I try to move to look around him, he moves too...

Sometimes I can just HEAR him saying to me "What are you trying to look at THEM for?? I'm the best looking fish in this tank! Just LOOK AT ME!!"

(Yes, my fish talk to me. Don't look at me like I'm weird! I know your fish talk to you too! ;))
 
I have a comet and a koi that are always swimming one after the other. They are always together and sometimes the swim like one is leaning on the other.

I recently moved them from a 50 gallom to the 250. It was curious how they kept doing the same basic swimming pattern in a section of the tank that measured the same as the 50 gl. Like there was an imaginary glass and they were conditioned to go back at a cetain distance. It took them about 2 days to figure they were in a bigger tank. :shark:
 
My 15 pleco, Rufus, thinks he is a clown loach. He lets my 5 clown loachs "loach pile" him. They all sit on top of him and he just sits there at the bottom of the loach pile!
 
I had a redtailed shark that would disappear from time-to-time. I'd always look around for him on the floor, but never found him, and he'd be back a while later, sometimes up to a day. Never thought on it, just figured he was hiding. Then one day I was walking by the tank and I heard a weird splashing sound, and he was sitting in the Aqua Clear filter! He was swimming upstream and hanging out in there.

I thought about helping him out, but realized two things: he didn't need the help since he always got out anyway, and he'd just go back in there when he felt the need for some alone time.
 
My betta's in love with his thermometer. In a planted tank, he'll use the leaves of the plant to bolster him and he'll 'perch' on top of it like a chair...now that he's in a hospital tank, he swims circles around and around and around the thermometer like he's on a ferris wheel. He's weird.
 
my betta no offence was retarded, I had him in a 10 Gal tank with one other small fish and he had a facination to jump into the filter....
 
Bachiwan said:
I had a redtailed shark that would disappear from time-to-time. I'd always look around for him on the floor, but never found him, and he'd be back a while later, sometimes up to a day. Never thought on it, just figured he was hiding. Then one day I was walking by the tank and I heard a weird splashing sound, and he was sitting in the Aqua Clear filter! He was swimming upstream and hanging out in there.

I thought about helping him out, but realized two things: he didn't need the help since he always got out anyway, and he'd just go back in there when he felt the need for some alone time.
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Wow Bach...that's incredible !! LOL !


My angels and rams are a pain when I want to try and get some pics of the tank...or one of the other fish in there. As soon as I show up with the camera, they think it's time to eat and they park themselves right in front of the lens ! Well, that's all fine and good if it happens to be one of THEM that I'm trying to get....but usually it's the kuhlii, who doesn't like to show up much for pics. And he's fast too...if I don't get one right away, he takes off into a hole in the driftwood. :rolleyes:
 
One of my guppies will always come towards a person always. My male cockatoo has learned that when my face shows up that means feeding time.(he doesn't do it for anyone else though hmm...)
 
Oh I forgot to say my Bala shark my Pale barb and my tiger Barb used to all school it was the most interesting school ever
 
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