What is the Smartest Thing Your Fish Has Done

[ptrick21186]

I had two Clown Fish and the smaller of the two jumped out the tank towards the bathroom. Not sure how smart that was because he died but I like to think he was pulling a Finding Nemo and was trying to make it to the toliet.....

 

[mchans]

My Quoyi parrot is the best welcome wagon, and actively breaks up squabbles between other fish in the tank.

Yeah mine used to do that as well. Loved they fish.

 

[KING KONG]

1 more experience was of yellow coris wrasse. I thought it had died but after 1 yr it suddenly came back and was looking like that everything is normal!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I had two Clown Fish and the smaller of the two jumped out the tank towards the bathroom. Not sure how smart that was because he died but I like to think he was pulling a Finding Nemo and was trying to make it to the toliet.....

Maybe him and a few other fish made a bet to see if he could make it to the ocean by flushing himself down the toilet.

 

[drblank1]

My old valentini puffer used to come up to the surface of the water for belly scratches.

That's too funny. In my son's fresh water tank, his previous plecostomus would come up to the top of the water and float upside down and let us scratch his belly. It got to the point when he saw us enter the room, he'd swim up and float upside down on top of the water. We were all sad when he passed.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

My Neon Dottyback would shimmy between the Overflow Weir Teeth. I’d have to wait till it was in the Sump. I couldn’t find him, there’s no filter sock at the drain, skimmer has a Sponge filter on the pump and there’s three layers of media to the next compartment. I was tearing the sump apart, look up, it had figured out how to get back into the tank. Did that till it was too big to get in the overflow. It couldn’t jump over the top, the glass fits too close, and it would be hard to swim up through the Weir. I think it wiggled through the algae, but never saw it do this.

 

[Zebrasoma98]

Had a bamboo catshark where I used to work who would come rest on my feet waiting for a back scratch whenever I cleaned the glass tunnel

 

[Jesterrace]

Had a Diamond Watchman Goby who nominated himself Clean Up Crew Manager. He would pick up Hermit Crabs on the Sand bed and place them on the rockwork, as if to say "I got the sandbed, you guys take care of the rockwork".

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Had a bamboo catshark where I used to work who would come rest on my feet waiting for a back scratch whenever I cleaned the glass tunnel View attachment 3012444

Haven't heard of a bamboo cat shark before

 

[Petcrazyson]

Haven't heard of a bamboo cat shark before

You haven’t? They are one of the best sharks for tanks. Don’t get too big and are one of the prettiest and docile sharks.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

You haven’t? They are one of the best sharks for tanks. Don’t get too big and are one of the prettiest and docile sharks.

After seeing pictures I think I have seen them before, just didn't know the names of them haha

 

[Timfish]

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Not mine ...

But one smart and adorable Butterflyfish!

Saw this on youtube - had to watch it twice, so cool!

 

[Kapachuka3]

I had a clownfish that used to go crazy and swim at the food container i use when i brought it out. He would merge from his cave and stare at it. I also had a pincushion urchin that i fed once when it got to the top of the water, then whenever it was hungry it went to the top of the water and i gave it nori. So it figured out thats how to get fed.

 

[Bucs20fan]

I have two stupid mollies that like to be away from flow at night so they go into the anemone basket....

 

[o2manyfish]

I had a Long Nose Butterfly in a Fish Only tank. If you walked past the tank without putting food in, then the next time you walked past the tank he would spit water out the tank at you. He was smart, he only spit at me or my girlfriend at the time - cause we did the feeding and not the other house mates.

In my previous 400g reef tank I had a 2 story 26g surge tank. I kept Dragon Faced Pipefish and Seahorses in the tank. In the afternoons when the surge tank was running, then would move to the top of the tank and hang out near the surge outlet, when the surge started they would swim out into the surge and then get shot across the tank. They did this daily on schedule.

Dave B

 

[RichReef]

My Purple Tang is the policeman of the tank. It gets in between ANY aggression between any of the other fish. It just won't put up with anything like that. Sometimes my Yellow and Sailfin Tang try to give it a go and the Purple just gets right in between. The Powder Blue doesn't even try anymore.

The Yellow and the Purple are thick as thieves. They rarely leave each other.

Sometimes the Coral Beauty and Starry Blenny try but the Tang is right there.

It's bizarre but I like it.