What's the weirdest thing your fish do?

NewbieSeth · May 9, 2016

Hey everyone! Rather than posting a question about what's wrong, I thought it would be fun to hear some interesting fish behavior stories!

I'll get it started. My coral beauty constantly swims over to the cave my peppermint shrimp lives in and just sits there and wiggles for a few seconds. He's obviously trying to get a cleaning and the shrimp doesn't seem to give a dang. Cracks me up. And my CB and starry blenny are bffs. They swim around together, sometimes touching as they swim, eat off the exact same spots and will take turns on nori I clip in the tank. Funny to see such diff fish getting along so well.

What are your fun/funny/crazy fish behavior stories? Or any other livestock behaviors are acceptable!

Duke4Life · May 9, 2016

My c.f. cyanopleura chases his reflection most of the day.

JackDE · May 10, 2016

Not really funny but a weird habit one of my fish has: One of my firefish gets spooked by everything, it's not out of the normal to hear a smacking sound because something scared him and he tried to jump out of the tank and smacked against the acrylic tank cover. smh. If I need to remove the cover to do anything I have to wait until after lights out when he goes to sleep under his rock or else he will jump out.

PurpleTreeSpiders · May 10, 2016

Fish are silly. My blenny sits on the empty algae suction cup like its magically going to fill itself and he wants to be ready when it does.
The hybrid flasher wrasse swims into any container I use in the tank and refuses to leave it. He swam into a shallow Tupperware I was trying to use to transfer my plate coral up to my cube for easier feeding and just sat in it before starting to panic because he couldn't get out. It was fully submersed halfway down the tank....

Wild1 · May 10, 2016

I once had a clown fish that swam constantly straight into the flow of one of my power heads, like it was running or in this case swimming a marathon.

michellejy · May 10, 2016

I had a wrasse that would wedge itself in the rocks to sleep (normal) and refuse to come out in the morning until I fed the tank. The lights would be on, all of the other fish would be swimming, and he would just watch me from his spot until food hit the water. My husband called him "my wife's lazy wrasse."

One of my clownfish plays dead when it is frightened. It drops to the bottom of the tank on its side and completely freezes. I thought it was sick/dying at first and went through a whole panic of moving it to a hospital tank, massive water changes, etc. Now I know that is just what it does. In a few minutes, he starts swimming again, once he realizes the "threat" has passed.

tautog83 · May 10, 2016

my black cap basslet used to take mouthfulls of sand and drop it on a different coral everytime .. nice guy

bruleyii · May 10, 2016

I have a small bubble tip that can only host one clown. So the male hosts the out of control algae near it. Hes very submissive. My file fish also likes to follow my hand around the tank when I'm cleaning clumps of algae out and occasionally gives me a little nip.

Bpultz · May 10, 2016

My green spotter puffer eats seaweed from my fingers and squeaks when he does it. The clownfish just bite my fingers in this process

NewbieSeth · May 10, 2016

The last few days my coral beauty has been swimming in front of my power head and stopped. It blows her across the tank sideways and she swims back to the front and does it again. It's like a water park ride for her.

Bdog4u2 · May 10, 2016

My old picasso trigger would grab these balloons with glass animals hanging by a string and bring them in front of the powerhead and watch them zoom around the tank, he would do it for hours at a time