Fish Behavior That Annoys You

[Logan27]

I had a ball of chaeto in my main display. My tomato clown hated it so he would take a string of it at a time and pull it til it came off then swam away and released it. I had strings of chaeto stuck at the wavemakers, corals, rocks all the time

 

[shrimped]

You know those "cats are jerks" videos on YouTube? Someone should make a "fish are jerks" video

 

[Paul B]

The only thing they do that annoys me is jumping out. It seems the more rare or expensive they are, the higher they can jump.

 

[Forsaken77]

I had a ball of chaeto in my main display. My tomato clown hated it so he would take a string of it at a time and pull it til it came off then swam away and released it. I had strings of chaeto stuck at the wavemakers, corals, rocks all the time

That's funny, lol. Sounds almost like what my trigger does with the pellets. They try to be spiteful and let you know what they don't want around or to be fed. I would be happy if my trigger just didn't eat the pellets because he didn't like them, like any normal fish does. But he has to make a mess to tick me off on purpose ;Shifty

 

[Confuse]

My Starry Blenny has the bad habit of laying on my Hammerhead magnet cleaner like he's taking a nap and refuses to move when I try to clean the glass in my tank. I'll see if I can get a picture of it. Lazy fish just lays there on its side just chilling. lol

 

[Forsaken77]

My Starry Blenny has the bad habit of laying on my Hammerhead magnet cleaner like he's taking a nap and refuses to move when I try to clean the glass in my tank. I'll see if I can get a picture of it. Lazy fish just lays there on its side just chilling. lol

So even when you move it he still stays on it?

 

[paphater]

Have to go with my diamond goby and his penchant for burying stuff. I could live with it if it were just around his home but I've got a max mini on the other side of the tank that he tries to bury every other day. He also buried a war coral frag and by the time I noticed it half of the frag was dead.

 

[Salty1962]

My Tamarin Wrasses digging up sand and spitting it out everywhere!

 

[SPS Junky]

I had a female Leopard Wrasse (M. Bipartitus) that was beautiful and perfectly peaceful until she transitioned to a male and turned into a total brat. He was crazy beautiful with teal and purple jagged stripes but would race across the tank and splash the surface with his tail and send water 5 feet in the air hitting my lighting, the walls, carpet, and even the dog! And, he'd do it repeatedly trying to get my attention. After cleaning my screen (Wrasses are jumpers of course) and external glass 3 or 4 times a day and watching our Boston Terrier get soaked constantly while trying to sleep in her recliner (yeah it's pretty much her personal recliner), I finally had had it and relocated the fish to a friend's 180. And yes, I warned my friend. Hmmm, come to think of it, I haven't heard from him for a while. . . .

 

[the_reef_keeper]

When my rose urchin decided he really wanted a tiny clump of hair algae under my torch coral.

the torch is still made at me...

 

[jefra]

My Anthias get excited when they are about to eat and they splash water than runs down the front of the tank so I frequently have to clean the exterior glass. Always fun.

My anthias all do this too, super annoying

 

[Chrisarmstrong]

My yellow head sleeper goby likes to swim to the top of my tank to release the sand over all my corals. I think it tries to fill them up.

 

[Eva Rose]

Ok... So almost everyone has, or has had, a fish that did something annoying to you or your tank. What is it?

This came to mind because I have this Blue Throat Trigger that does things to get my attention, then annoys me afterwards. He will snap his mouth at the top of the water (some people call it grunting) when he wants to be fed. He loves mysis and the algae sheets that I use for the Foxfaces. But he's not getting mysis everyday and I only use the algae sheets 2-3 times per week because they make a mess.

So when it's pellet days, and I feed New Life Spectrum, he will go around grabbing the pellets, chewing them up, and then spits it all out like a dust so the others can't eat it. He does this religiously like he's saying put the good stuff in here. And it's not 1 pellet and then he stops because he doesn't like it. No, he will race around and grab every pellet he can and do this, not eating any of them. So there's a mist of dusty pellet remains flying around the tank.

I swear he does this to be spiteful until he gets what he wants. And I can't keep adding more and more pellets so the other fish can all get their share because the tank will be loaded with uneaten food that I can't even scoop out.

So what has everyone else's favorite marine friends done to aggravate them in some way?

 

[Eva Rose]

My Blue Throat is a real pig as well. I know what you mean. He also tries to snatch any pellet I put in the tank on pellet days. The other fish get annoyed at him as much as I do. One trick that helped was I put a few pellets in each hand. Then hold my hands apart spaced over the tank before dropping the pellets simultaneously in 2 different areas. It has helped some. He can't be in 2 places at once, but he tries. Beautiful, peaceful fish but greedy as heck. He has even tried to enjoy a little finger snack when I haven't been careful.

 

[Tori]

I have a few

My Clownfish kicking up sand with his tail. I swear it's his way of giving me the middle finger when I'm looking at the tank.

My Yellow Watchman goby stealing food off of coral when I try to spot feed them, in spite of me shoing him away with the turkey baster.

And same Clownfish stealing the whole ball of mysis as soon as it his the water and dragging it to his turf. Cute little jerk.

 

[Peeptoad]

My clown fish like to dig up all the sand in front of their cave with their tails, this buries my zoas. I have seen them scoop up sand in their mouths and spit it on my other coral so no coral gets left out. Evil cute fish.

 

[Forsaken77]

Did anyone see that video of 2 Diamond Gobies where the one is digging sand out if his cave and the second one scoops it up and dumps it back in the cave? They go back and forth. One moves it out, the other immediately puts it back in. Hilarious video. Gotta see if I can find it. I think it's on this site somewhere.

 

[Black Pearl]

My Moorish idol pulls all the frags out of the frag rack, I'm sure he is nipping at them or maybe the algae on the frag plug but once out of the rack he ignores them

 

[Aux10]

Did anyone see that video of 2 Diamond Gobies where the one is digging sand out if his cave and the second one scoops it up and dumps it back in the cave? They go back and forth. One moves it out, the other immediately puts it back in. Hilarious video. Gotta see if I can find it. I think it's on this site somewhere.

This one by any chance?

 

[shrimped]

This one by any chance?

That Jawfish is like "why are you like this"