Fish are really frickin' cool to watch - and amazing

[Rabrrrrrr]

I love watching my fish. I've always loved watching fish.

One moment, they're just hanging there, not moving at all. The next moment, they're 12 inches behind where they were, facing the other direction.

My tetras love to do this act: sitting still, just hanging, and then suddenly, without ever turning in that direction, just go sideways half a foot in about 0.01 seconds.

Or the catfish that, when it is all finished being on one end of the tank, absolutely positively has to go to the other end RIGHT NOW. Takes him about 1.5 seconds to travel the 6 feet.

I'm also amazed not only at how a fish can go from 0 to 60 in dt time, but can also decelerate from 60 to 0 in dt time, with no momentum carrying them through the water.

I'm also intrigued at how my black tetras - I have nine of them - will swim around together, and will all turn at the same time and hang together. But other times, they travel around in a purely chaotic formation; though probably not chaotic to them,they might evry well have a pattern.

Schooling is a fascinating phenomenon.

And fish are just damned cool.

[alittlelark]

1. I had a 55 gall w/ tropicals for 15 years.

Ended up dismantling after 2 years w/ small kids.

Back in college and early work life I LOVED watching them for HOURS while STONED !!!!:smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Oh, man, I bet it's great when stoned!

Haven't done that in decades, though. But they're incredibly absorbing and mesmerizing even straight and sober.

Really amazing.

[TahitiNut]

3. You ought to try some warm-water scuba diving.

One of the REALLY fun dives is to feed schooling fish scrambled eggs. Being surrounded in a cloud of hundreds of bright yellow fish flashing in the blue water sunshine is awesome.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. SCUBA diving kinda scares me

I don't mind snorkelling, but even that can creep me out after a while. Did a lot of snorkeling when I was in Hawaii...and always looked forward to it, but I need my rest times and can't get too close to the coral.

Not sure why it does, but it does. I love being in the water, especially the ocean, but it also scares me to be in water.

:shrug:

Though I'm sure going SCUBA in the midst of beautifully colored fish would be awesome!

[HEyHEY]

4. It's funny but my favorutire is watching Salmon

:shrug:

[NYC]

5. How are the catfish?

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Catfish are doing very well!

I brought the one out of the hospital today, and he's (or she's) doing hunky dory.

Thanks for asking!

[clovis29]

7. I like fish when I drink a lot too

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Woo hoo!

Congratulations! :P

[BikeWriter]

8. How big is your tank? n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. It's 125 gallons

So the fishies have plenty room to run around!

[BikeWriter]

10. Damn, my biggest one is a 100 gallon.

I raised a clown knife to a good size in there. Another I liked was the Arowanas I've gotten two of them up to several pound size.

[underpants]

13. They sure can hold their breath for a long time

It is amazing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Yeah! They're so small, it's hard to imagine they can hold for so long

My fish haven't breathed since I got them.

I wouldn't mind so much, but in solidarity, I decided also not to breath until they do. And I'll tell you, I'm gettin' blue.