Hilarious fish

I had a wrasse (Christmas) that attacked the tank every time I wore a maroon shirt. Seriously dove straight at the tank to me. I would have to cover up or it would injure itself. I mean, I know maroon is not my color, but really...

Also, while helping at our public aquarium, I would get squirted at by puffers if I did not feed fast enough. They are funny.
 
I was standing a few feet away from my tank (with the hood up), checking it out. Out of nowhere my zebra dartfish jumps out of the tank at a very high velocity, missile-like, and strikes me in the neck. Right on the adams apple! It actually surprised me so much it knocked me off balance and I keeled over. When the fish hit me there was a slap so loud my gf at the time came out of the room to see what was going on! It was hilarious but scared me pretty good lol
 
This guy always cracks me up.
 

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Wrasses and Puffers are fish of personality
 
Wrasses and Puffers are fish of personality
I would like to add hawkfish to this category.
My flame hawkfish (the judge) loves to sit atop my wavemaker and judge everything I do(hence the name) lol
If I am late in feeding then he swims to the front pane and rockets straight up to water surface with its eyes fixed on me.
I do have a net cover for jump protection.
 
Not strange behavior at all, but we have a clownfish that my son named "bad guy fish" when he was 2 years old. Funny thing about this was that it's the female of the pair. The reason he named her "bad guy fish" was because she always bites my hand every time I reach into the tank. Every. Single. Time.
 
Not strange behavior at all, but we have a clownfish that my son named "bad guy fish" when he was 2 years old. Funny thing about this was that it's the female of the pair. The reason he named her "bad guy fish" was because she always bites my hand every time I reach into the tank. Every. Single. Time.
One of mine is nasty too! Bites me every time. Doesn’t hurt but startles me enough to fling my hand up and splash water all over the place!
 
I once had a leopard puffer that had a lot of personality. One night, while vacuuming the substrate, the HOB filter suddenly began making a lot of noise and ceased its flow. I noticed that the strainer guard had fallen off the end of the tube. I removed its lift tube and look inside it, and there was that puffer ! He had inflated himself, stopping himself in the tube, and he quickly deflated and slipped out and back into the tank.

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Idk not really me, and it wasnt really that funny, cuz i was really worried at first, but I was at my LFS, they had just received a massive shipment of saltwater fish, and had gotten a few porcuipine puffers. I noticed that one of them was lying upside down on the bottom of the tank, and the other was seemingly "stuck" in the overflow. I went and told my friend who is the lead "fishguy" at the store and he said "oh dont worry they're just being typical puffers." I was like "im sorry what??" 5 mins later both puffers are happily swimming around, not a care in the world. I would love to have a nice puffer, but worried about my corals. Valentini maybe?
 

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