OK, now I know this is gonna sound a little far fetched but this is 100% true and just happened. I live in So. California where we just had a pretty damn good sized earthquake. Now if we can get over the Gar legality thing here for a minute I really need to share this.
He somehow knew the earthquake was coming about 25 seconds before it happened, im serious!!! I was sitting here on the computer when he made a large splash for no reason (something he never does). I turned around and he started acting really crazy, he was swimming head on at me but shaking his head back and forth (like the dolphins at the end of Jaws 3 if you know what I mean). It was enough where I actually stood up and when over and was like "what's the matter man, what's going on?"
I had just been doing laundry so I wanted to rise my hands before I touched him so I went in the bathroom, rinsed my hands and when I came back to the tank he was practiaclly sticking his head (snout) out of the water and shaking it back and forth.
I was seriously freaking out cause he's NEVER done this plus I had just read about some guy on here whose Gator Gar had just died for no reason. Then I open the lid and that's when I noticed that the wall the lid lays on was shaking back and forth hard. The Gar splashed again and I heard my girlfriend yell out "OMG Earthquake". I could barely stand as the whole place was shaking and things were falling. I ran in our bedroom and told my girl to get into a safe spot, I looked over and the tank in the bedroom was splashing over and water was spilling out. I had to kind of hug it so it didn't slide off the stand and break. The damn quake went for about 20 seconds or so, pretty long. When it settled I went upstairs to see that our saltwater tank looked like a wave pool and water was dripping into the electrical outlet and was starting to smoke so we had to kill the circuit breaker to prevent a fire.
Everything is under control now and things are OK, but I am not exagerating at all when I say that the Gator Gar sensed the earthquake coming almost 30 seconds before it actually hit!
He somehow knew the earthquake was coming about 25 seconds before it happened, im serious!!! I was sitting here on the computer when he made a large splash for no reason (something he never does). I turned around and he started acting really crazy, he was swimming head on at me but shaking his head back and forth (like the dolphins at the end of Jaws 3 if you know what I mean). It was enough where I actually stood up and when over and was like "what's the matter man, what's going on?"
I had just been doing laundry so I wanted to rise my hands before I touched him so I went in the bathroom, rinsed my hands and when I came back to the tank he was practiaclly sticking his head (snout) out of the water and shaking it back and forth.
I was seriously freaking out cause he's NEVER done this plus I had just read about some guy on here whose Gator Gar had just died for no reason. Then I open the lid and that's when I noticed that the wall the lid lays on was shaking back and forth hard. The Gar splashed again and I heard my girlfriend yell out "OMG Earthquake". I could barely stand as the whole place was shaking and things were falling. I ran in our bedroom and told my girl to get into a safe spot, I looked over and the tank in the bedroom was splashing over and water was spilling out. I had to kind of hug it so it didn't slide off the stand and break. The damn quake went for about 20 seconds or so, pretty long. When it settled I went upstairs to see that our saltwater tank looked like a wave pool and water was dripping into the electrical outlet and was starting to smoke so we had to kill the circuit breaker to prevent a fire.
Everything is under control now and things are OK, but I am not exagerating at all when I say that the Gator Gar sensed the earthquake coming almost 30 seconds before it actually hit!
