What's The Weirdest Thing You've Seen

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In your nightmares.
Everyone with a fishtank has seen some WEIRD stuff going on, right? Example:

My cray wanders around sometimes and doesn't really care if anyone is watching. My pl*co will remain still if being watched. The other day I was sitting and watching the cray wander around, and he comes upon the pl*co sitting there. Rather than go around, he goes OVER the pl*co. The pl*co, feeling the crayfish on him SPOOKS LIKE MAD. The cray, of course, gets a grip and hangs on. Now this pl*co does like 3 LAPS around my tank with the crayfish hanging on for dear life! Eventually the pl*co speeds under a branch and the cray gets knocked off and scoots back to his cave retreat to nurse his wounded pride.

My green tiger barb schools with my white clouds. I figure because they all have reddish fins, and there are no other barbs in the tank, that she schools with them because it satisfies that barb "schooling tendency". The wc's always school loosely, but when the barb leads the school, I notice they pack in tighter and swim more in formation... like she's the leader?

Now, in many tanks there's a mix of fish that, other than aquaria, would NEVER have come into close contact with each other. My question in this post is: What is the WEIRDEST thing you've ever seen happen in your tank?
 
heh, you cray story reminds me about an incident with my friend's silver arowana and a small turtle. The graceful arowana was minding his own business when the turtle decides to take a bite of his tailfin. I've never seen an arowana move so fast before, especially with a turtle hanging from its tail.
 
The weirdest thing I have ever saw in my tank, and see every day, is the Daily Wrestling Matches of my two seahorses. They love to go at it the second the shrimp hits the feeding dish, wrapping their tails aroud each others heads and pulling each other away. One time, they were so involved in the argument that they didn't even notice the royal gramma and Peppermint shrimp steal their food right out from under their noses! They are such a treat to watch!
 
In my son's tank I've often seen the Candy Striped pleco sleeping in the same hole with the Hammer's Cobalt Blue Lobster.

Dunno how strange these really are:

My kuhlii loaches do not hide. They have never hidden. They sit at the front of the tank all day in plain sight taking turns with the corycats and otos at the zucchini table.

The minute I turn the lights out in the 36g tank, all the otos attach themselves to the glass and go to sleep.


Roan
 
I had to get up early one morning to go somewhere, so I had no choice but to turn on the lights and feed my fish earlier than usual. The second I hit the lights, my Angel (my avatar) FREAKS out and rams straight into the glass and knocks herself out cold for 5 seconds. I'm freaking out thinking she killed herself right there, so I start tapping on the glass to wake her up. After a few seconds she snaps herself awake and starts gasping for water. Shes still alive today, but the entire day I expected to come home to a dead angel.
 
I like the arowana story, I can definitely picture that...

...and my hillstream loach never hides much. He's always the first to the algae pellets, and likes being out in the open. I have a cray and a crab in the same tank... if you were the loach would you want to find yourself cornered?

I think most fish learn pretty quickly about their environment. When I first got my tank I had two native crays in it as a water test (to see if the strip was right before putting any fish in). I didn't realize it could climb a dry hose, open a plastic flip cover, and crawl down the hose to the floor. I looked for it for hours. No success :huh: we found him a few days ago (months after the disappearance) dried up & moldy one floor down and two rooms over under an old bookcase.

My pl*co on the other hand is a champion hider. He's 8.5" long and I have a 29 gallon tank and sometimes I still can't find him. His coloring matches the driftwood (2 pieces in the tank) so well that unless you're looking for him you'll never see him. One time a friend of mine said "HEY! That log just blinked at me!!!" <deadpans> "Yes.... Yes it did...."
 
I have a small catfish that doesnt move from its spot, and once spent over a month upside down on a particular fake plant. every once in a while Id tap the side of the tank to make sure he was still alive, and after a while I got curious to see what he would do if I moved the plant (take up residence behind the filter). my CAE decided to help me out one day and torpedoed himself over and over into the catfish, trying to knock him down. it was so much fun to watch!
 
my 11 inch pleco likes to do the backstroke acoss the top of the tank sucking up all the flakes .. and it aint like he is under fed either . and he loves his algea wafers .. but he sure loves them flakes .. it is really funny to watch ..

my Red devil is just as funny ... he sure can be a mean lil guy (5 inches) but can also be such a weenie . about once a week he gets a feeder mollie but when we go to put it in the tank he he runs and hides cause of the net .. he dont like the net .. we have never used the net to move him at all .. but he sure is scared of it .. and he hides up under the outflow of the HOB filter .. and he cnat fit under there he is to big ..lol..
like this .. and he also dont like that plant .. as u can see it is not in the gravel...lol
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Marn
 
I used to have an adult Red Eared Slider in the same tank as my 12'' Sailfin Pleco, on most days they would get along fine but if the turtle spent too much time at the surface the pleco would ram him from underneath, knocking him clear out of the water. It looked just like the original Jaws poster, with the shark coming straight up at the swimmer. Other times he would attach himself to the turtle's shell at not let go, when the turtle almost drowned I had to seperate them.
 
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