whats your most interesting fish
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Of course that's not saying much since I've only been keeping fish for the last couple of years.
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.
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...
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...