murdocmason

well I was sitting at my computer desk this morning watching my tanks and I noticed my baby angels doing some strange activity when I looked they had been doing the same thing my clown loach was doing, they are totally new to the tank and seem to have taken a liking to him which I find hilarious cause he is constantly doing his loach dance and the angels are doing te same thing lol

Tex Gal

That's hilarious. You should record it and put it on Youtube.

I have an albino cory that has been weird for the last 2 months. He lays on his side. He swims sideways sometimes. I've thought he was dead a couple of times and went to get him out to have him swim away like he was fit as a fiddle. I wondered if he was having swim bladder issues, but he can swim fine when he wants to. He acts normal when I put food in. I've decided he's just weird!

Vadimshevchuk

MY angel would jump outta the tank to grab flakes. Nut thats not to wierd i guess.

ddavila06

that might be parasites or something, gotta be careful there...


One day i saw my weather loach sitting funny, i was wondering wth, i looked over and had gotten into a rubber band and couldn't get it off i thought it was soo funny so took pictures of it, i don't know but you might be able to see it here: http://gwapa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2571

i tried to catch it to take it off but it lost it on its own while doing so, was really funny, love those guys!

Tex Gal

Thanks Damian. It's been 2 months. He's the only one. I would think that if it were illness he'd do it when its feeding time too. He doesn't seem to be getting worse. I do have a UV. I would think that would have killed any parasites brought in. I've had him for a loooong time. I guess time will tell.

niko

I used to have about 20 wild caught halfbeaks in my 180 gal. tank. About 2-3 inch long fish. Dark grey in color.

When I stick my hand in the tank they all come and bite the hairs on my forearm. I could pull them out haning all over my hand. Creepy! Feels like leeches or something.

Also - we have about 70 tanks on racks and they are full of different kinds of fish. Some of them jump out and we find them in tanks that are not only under the "home" tank, but also way off to the side. The weirdest thing is to find a fish from a tank on the bottom in a tank above it. We tried to explain that with fish getting caught in the net and not being noticed but I'm not convinced in that.

Also - a tiny wild betta that came mixed with some other fish. Imagine a dull looking fish, grey in color, looking like a gouramy runt. Size - about 1/2 inch. This little thing single handedly killed about 200 Boraras brigittae. One by one. I couldn'd find a reason for the fish dying but one day I saw the betta slowly coming out, heading precisely to one of the dead bodies and biting it only once very hard on the side. Then in one straight line going to another body in another part of the tank and biting it once. Then in one straight line to another body in another part of the tank and doing the same thing. Looked like he knew exactly where they were and wanted to make sure they were dead. Didn't eat them. Creepy.

Syciopterus sp. gobies. These things can jump out of a tank, get crunchy dry, and re-hydrate when placed back in the tank. It seems that as long as their gills are wet the body can literally dry up crooked like dried fish.


Some fish (Syciopterus sp. for sure) seem to have some very strange sense for magnetic fields or something like that. They absolutely hate one tank - wriggle and jump all over like crazy. When placed in the tank next to it they imediately calm down and act completely normal.

Another strange thing - disease leaving only 1 fish alive. It has happened to us over and over again. From a batch of 200 fish all die because of visible or unknown problems. In about 7 out of 10 cases 1 or 2 fish stay alive. Not 3 or 4. Always 1 or 2. These 1-2 fish are completely cast iron. We still have a Chocolate gourami that was the only survivor out of 80. He heals from Ich faster than the Endlers that are in the same tank.

A funky looking kind of bottom dweller from S. America whose name I always forget. The fish is flat. Looks like a catfish that has been stepped on. This thing can lay in front of the tank without moving whatsoever for weeks on end. Literally 2-3 weeks in one place. Amano shrimp learn to walk over it. It doesn't get ticklish.


--Nikolay

Tex Gal

Niko - those are weird stories! Especially the one about the hairs on your forearm!

murdocmason

now that one tops them wow man that crazy lol I about died laughing about finding other fish in tanks down the way omg im still laughing about them jumping at night trying to get to the other side, some are probably saying, hey frank I bet you I can make it to the tank on the end by the time he gets up to feed us lmao omg lmao i can just see it

gonathan85

My otos swim in vertical circles up against the glass....especially with the lights off!