Strange fish

[Nick C]

I'm not worried about this. Its not velvet, fish is eating, swimming normally, not scratching, no signs of visual distress. I don't know if he was just bored and having fun or seeing his reflection.

But what's some funky weird stuff your fishes do?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Looks like it is having fun! Nothing crazy with ours yet, other than the strange friendship between our Yellow Coris Wrasse and a flameback angel. They are inseparable to the point it's almost weird.

 

[I_Got_Crabs]

I'm not worried about this. Its not velvet, fish is eating, swimming normally, not scratching, no signs of visual distress. I don't know if he was just bored and having fun or seeing his reflection.

But what's some funky weird stuff your fishes do?

I heard tangs do this when their tank is too small or offers little open swimming space.

My damsel has one piece of a shell that he picks up an moves across the tank every 20-30 mins for no apparent reason. Always the same shell.

 

[Geebs19]

My flame did this same thing years ago.

 

[Butuz]

I'm not worried about this. Its not velvet, fish is eating, swimming normally, not scratching, no signs of visual distress. I don't know if he was just bored and having fun or seeing his reflection.

But what's some funky weird stuff your fishes do?

Lol, my green chromis does the same thing around mp40 power head, sometimes goes for 5 mins non stop. I think he is simply having fun riding the water movement.

 

[Nick C]

I heard tangs do this when their tank is too small or offers little open swimming space.

My damsel has one piece of a shell that he picks up an moves across the tank every 20-30 mins for no apparent reason. Always the same shell.

They are tiny tangs, very young, but there is plenty of open swimming room.

Your damsel just drops it off then grabs it later?

 

[Nick C]

Lol, my green chromis does the same thing around mp40 power head, sometimes goes for 5 mins non stop. I think he is simply having fun riding the water movement.

Yeah that's the only thing I can think of. He just enjoys it.

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

I do a tank that for several years had a crosshatch trigger that absolutely would not leave me alone until I held him in my hand and rubbed his back for a few seconds.

 

[rcmike]

That's not strange, this is strange.

 

[goodefx]

That's not strange, this is strange.

I think some magic pills fell in the tank, now he's looking for his glow sticks!

 

[ca1ore]

I have a lemon peel angel that does similar loops - has for a long time.

 

[Nick C]

That's not strange, this is strange.

lol this is great! and the music makes it 10x's better

 

[I_Got_Crabs]

They are tiny tangs, very young, but there is plenty of open swimming room.

Your damsel just drops it off then grabs it later?

Yeah, he just constantly moves it back and forth, dropping it, then picking it up and moving it again later. I think it might be a spawning behaviour that he has concentrated on one shell for some weird reason because I have seen them moving rocks when building a den for spawning.

 

[User1]

I have a lemon peel angel that does similar loops - has for a long time.

And you have a video to prove it

I wonder if there is maybe a connection. Your Lemon Peel is Yellow and the upside down Tang is also Yellow!

 

[ca1ore]

And you have a video to prove it

Well, extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence after all LOL.

 

[User1]

Well, extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence after all LOL.

You are in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

 

[Stigigemla]

Often when a fish is in a to small tank it swims against a whole side of the tank.
In my 9 ft ten tank i have had fishes swimming their jogging rounds. When my perculas were young they swam against a streamer outlet a minute or two a few times each night. It looked like their were trying to get a personal best in fast swimming. I had a Chaetodon collare that had a jogging track around half the front panel that it used about an hour each night.

When a fish swims against the glass it probably is about a mirror picture. If You light up the room behind the glass the mirror picture will fade and the fish will find something else to do. It looks as it is very few fishes in the tank. Maybe it feels alone and looks for a companion.
With coral reef fishes it is common that they have a buddy that is from another species or even genus. So with some more fishes in the tank it will be more comfortable. On a coral reef a fish is never alone.

 

[Radman73]

I had an orange back fairy wrasse and a regular fire fish that would sleep in the same, small, ceramic barnacle together. Always surprised me. Plenty of other options open for either of them too.

 

[User1]

When a fish swims against the glass it probably is about a mirror picture. If You light up the room behind the glass the mirror picture will fade and the fish will find something else to do. It looks as it is very few fishes in the tank. Maybe it feels alone and looks for a companion.
With coral reef fishes it is common that they have a buddy that is from another species or even genus. So with some more fishes in the tank it will be more comfortable. On a coral reef a fish is never alone.

Interesting thought on the "fish is never alone" bit. I like it.