DaddyFish
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I know there's been speculation over the years about curved/circular tanks with heavy flow and how fish may perceive that environment as larger than it really is. I've come to the conclusion there's much to that and may have found a way to reproduce the same effect in a rectangular tank.
In the video you will see a Niger Trigger "surfing" very near the vertically oriented GYRE on the near left corner. He balances his efforts just above the lower output of the gyre by holding himself at roughly 45-degrees nose-up. He does this every afternoon for hours. Every so often he gets caught off guard by the random setting and may be blown all the way across the tank. But he comes right back to it.
As with all children, there's much that they do that's so adorable but which they refuse to do in front of the camera. The Dogface Puffer and the Yellow Tang often ride the waves around mid-tank where the flow is strong but smoother, and you will see the puffer swimming against current in the video. The YT hides from all my photography efforts.
I am convinced these fish feel like they are in a much larger than 4' tank. Some of them will be moving soon to my new 215 6' tank, but it makes me and them happy to enjoy the effects of the GYRE pump oriented vertically to produce a flow that wraps the entire perimeter of the tank.
In the video you will see a Niger Trigger "surfing" very near the vertically oriented GYRE on the near left corner. He balances his efforts just above the lower output of the gyre by holding himself at roughly 45-degrees nose-up. He does this every afternoon for hours. Every so often he gets caught off guard by the random setting and may be blown all the way across the tank. But he comes right back to it.
As with all children, there's much that they do that's so adorable but which they refuse to do in front of the camera. The Dogface Puffer and the Yellow Tang often ride the waves around mid-tank where the flow is strong but smoother, and you will see the puffer swimming against current in the video. The YT hides from all my photography efforts.
I am convinced these fish feel like they are in a much larger than 4' tank. Some of them will be moving soon to my new 215 6' tank, but it makes me and them happy to enjoy the effects of the GYRE pump oriented vertically to produce a flow that wraps the entire perimeter of the tank.
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