Treefer32
Valuable Member
So, we've talked a lot in the news, etc etc etc about people entertainment and keeping us occupied. However, I'm here today to discuss what people have done for fish entertainment. Do fish get bored and need something to occupy them? My answer is for some fish it is a resounding YES!
I have a Dragon Wrasse that seems to be the epidemy of a bored fish. Poster fish if you will! Picture of him front and center. I've seen him swallow a whole cube of frozen food at once. I'm not sure what that felt like to his gut having a cube of freezing food in his stomach, but, he still does it. He attacks rocks. Uses his tail to clear spots in the sand, and is very messy. I find that he does best if I occasionally take all the pebbles and rocks from his cave and bury them in the sand throughout the tank. By the next day he'll have most of them back in his cave. This tells me he needs more to do...
Has anyone found "toys" for their fish that give the fish hours of entertainment and a purpose and help them become less disruptive to others in the tank. Now, my Dragon Wrasse - aka "Novaculichthys taeniourus" is not agressive mostly to other fish though he swims around with his mouth open, I suspect he's constantly sizing up fish to see if he could swallow them.. I have nothing that would fit in his mouth, Except my tiny clown fish, and he leaves them completely alone.
So how do you entertain your disruptive fish? Tangs are easily entertained by sheets of sea veggies. Which is awesome and easy. Clown fish entertained by their host (and/or occupied) though mine haven't found a host yet.
Other fish are content with just swimming around looking for food. For more advanced fish such as the "rockmover wrasse" that require more intellectual toys, what have you done if anything to keep them preoccupied and not moving corals and critical rock structures in an effort to decorate their cave? I'm not saying they'll jump hoops?? Maybe? We do hamster wheels for hamsters and they'll do that for hours and hours... What can we entertain fish with?
I have a Dragon Wrasse that seems to be the epidemy of a bored fish. Poster fish if you will! Picture of him front and center. I've seen him swallow a whole cube of frozen food at once. I'm not sure what that felt like to his gut having a cube of freezing food in his stomach, but, he still does it. He attacks rocks. Uses his tail to clear spots in the sand, and is very messy. I find that he does best if I occasionally take all the pebbles and rocks from his cave and bury them in the sand throughout the tank. By the next day he'll have most of them back in his cave. This tells me he needs more to do...
Has anyone found "toys" for their fish that give the fish hours of entertainment and a purpose and help them become less disruptive to others in the tank. Now, my Dragon Wrasse - aka "Novaculichthys taeniourus" is not agressive mostly to other fish though he swims around with his mouth open, I suspect he's constantly sizing up fish to see if he could swallow them.. I have nothing that would fit in his mouth, Except my tiny clown fish, and he leaves them completely alone.
So how do you entertain your disruptive fish? Tangs are easily entertained by sheets of sea veggies. Which is awesome and easy. Clown fish entertained by their host (and/or occupied) though mine haven't found a host yet.
Other fish are content with just swimming around looking for food. For more advanced fish such as the "rockmover wrasse" that require more intellectual toys, what have you done if anything to keep them preoccupied and not moving corals and critical rock structures in an effort to decorate their cave? I'm not saying they'll jump hoops?? Maybe? We do hamster wheels for hamsters and they'll do that for hours and hours... What can we entertain fish with?
and yes, maybe cabin fever, insanity, isolation, whatever, may be motivating me to entertain myself by asking the question of how to entertain fish.
