Fun things fish do

[Europhyllia]

I was just thinking of my Mandarins and it reminded me about how Bruce used to love to surf the Seio.
I had one Seio 1500gph aimed along the back side so it was kind of a rock-free, clear shot for a full 6 feet.
Bruce used to swim along the front and then go up a rock and purposefully jump in front of the Seio outlet and then ride the wave all the way to the other end and then do it again. It was so cute - my little surfer dude. :)
I later changed the Seios around and after I reconfigured he stopped surfing (rocks and coral in the way now).

I think it's interesting how even little tiny fish can come up with things like this.

I wish I had taken a video of him before I moved the pumps.

[ErikH]

My fish watch my hands when I pull them out of the freezer. If there is food, they go crazy! I think it's totally bunk that people say fish are dumb!!!!

[ShAgMaN]

My puffer gives me signals when he's hungry. He does this little twitching thing and kicks up sand.

[corruption]

Our black and white Ocellaris likes to get into splashing battles with the wife -- she splashes water at him (near the surface of the tank), and he'll flip around and wiggle wildly back at her, splashing up the surface... then turn around and wait for her to return fire. Its pretty fun to watch :)

http://binarybuccaneers.org/tank/DSC00553.JPG

-Justin

[Kristy]

All-time most fun fish behavior for me was my flame hawk who I trained to perch on my hand while I was feeding the tank (see photo in my avatar). He would sit on my hand or wrist just like a parakeet does and stay there for a full 30 seconds at a time, then swim off, come back, do it again, often four or five times in a nightly feeding. It was amazing. And he really never did it while Mike was in the tank, but would for me.

It was the saddest of days when I found he had jumped out of the tank.

[corruption]

Oh, another one that always amused me was the Sohal Tang that Felipe and Sarah had back in the propagation room at FinAddict -- that thing was the most puppy-dog like fish I have ever seen. I swear he used to come to the surface and beg to be petted -- put a forefinger and thumb out, and he'd position himself to slowly swim through em... Funny funny stuff :)

-Justin

[Mr Cob]

Kristy...that's awesome. I always wondered what that was that the flame was perching on. I thought it was sand. Never knew it was your finger! Awesome!!!

My yellow wrasse use to yelp or snort at me begging to feed the tank. He would get all hyper and go ballistic until I'd feed.