Any crazy fish behavior or stories about your Natives?

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The largest bluegill will swing it's head left and right really fast when I come into the room. I knew he was telling me I AM HUNGRY and hurry up with the food.

This is the fish that I have to hold the food over the water for him to get ready to grab it. The other fish are faster and smaller than him and snatch it before he can open his mouth. This fish always studied me even after eating.

One day after he was stuffed, I did the head shake(yeah I know it was bizzare) and he did it back. I thought he was just doing it. I put my finger at the glass and he just looked no head shake. Anytime I did the headshake, he did too. He was not aggressive, it's very interesting though. Anyone else had anything happen?
 
I use to have a 5" lmb that went crazy whenever i do WCs. Swims super fast from left to right then it stuns itself by hitting the glass. Its weird cause it seemed like it was dying than couple of hours later hes fine, same as always! hahaha ;D
 
My bass is the fastest learner I've ever worked with. Any organism can learn association, but this figured out by the end of day 1 that when I turn on the basement light, he's getting fed. So that was the third feeding, lights on, and wiggle-begs. Crazy-smart fish.

And this is compared to my wild Oscar! I think a LMB would figure out most puzzles before the O if tested.
 
My largest Green Sunfish would playfight with my finger when he was little after hed eaten.....he would do these little little charges after flaring gills, but would never bite me.
 
my flower horn has a few lil corks of his own. when doing a water change for the first 10 min after its all done he will go straight up and down and keep his lips to the sand and his tail to the lights not sure why. he is the only fish in the tank that will do this. Also when you first come into the room he will start to do tricks for you. he likes to do barrel rolls from side to side as well as forward and back summer salts. if you dont feed him he will stop after a few tricks untill the next person enters the room. Talk about earning your food huh.
 
I'm a relative newbie (< 2 years) into the fish collecting hobby. The funniest thing that I have seen to date involves one of my native setups (Deck Pond).

I was showing off (Par usual) feeding my Gars and Bowfins chunks of market fish by hand to impress some of my buddies. I run 19 tanks and have found this extremely easy with just about all predatory fish species that I keep once someone on this site steared me toward the wooden skewer training method!

I can place meat chunks between my fingers and have the Bowfins come right up and nudge between them as they gently take the food. My one buddy thought that they were SO awsome cool, that he decided to stick his finger in the pond doing the good ole "fishy-fishy" thing.

It took a fraction of a second before his finger was down one of the Bowfins throat to the first knuckle. He screamed like a banshee removing his finger as quickly as he could. We almost pee'd ouselves laughing at the spectacle.

The little fellow was even able to draw blood near the cudical of the fingernail!
 
screaminleeman;4474779; said:
I'm a relative newbie (< 2 years) into the fish collecting hobby. The funniest thing that I have seen to date involves one of my native setups (Deck Pond).

I was showing off (Par usual) feeding my Gars and Bowfins chunks of market fish by hand to impress some of my buddies. I run 19 tanks and have found this extremely easy with just about all predatory fish species that I keep once someone on this site steared me toward the wooden skewer training method!

I can place meat chunks between my fingers and have the Bowfins come right up and nudge between them as they gently take the food. My one buddy thought that they were SO awsome cool, that he decided to stick his finger in the pond doing the good ole "fishy-fishy" thing.

It took a fraction of a second before his finger was down one of the Bowfins throat to the first knuckle. He screamed like a banshee removing his finger as quickly as he could. We almost pee'd ouselves laughing at the spectacle.

The little fellow was even able to draw blood near the cudical of the fingernail!
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Ha ha sounds great and serves him right!!!!! :ROFL: :ROFL:
 
screaminleeman;4474779;4474779 said:
I'm a relative newbie (< 2 years) into the fish collecting hobby. The funniest thing that I have seen to date involves one of my native setups (Deck Pond).

I was showing off (Par usual) feeding my Gars and Bowfins chunks of market fish by hand to impress some of my buddies. I run 19 tanks and have found this extremely easy with just about all predatory fish species that I keep once someone on this site steared me toward the wooden skewer training method!

I can place meat chunks between my fingers and have the Bowfins come right up and nudge between them as they gently take the food. My one buddy thought that they were SO awsome cool, that he decided to stick his finger in the pond doing the good ole "fishy-fishy" thing.

It took a fraction of a second before his finger was down one of the Bowfins throat to the first knuckle. He screamed like a banshee removing his finger as quickly as he could. We almost pee'd ouselves laughing at the spectacle.

The little fellow was even able to draw blood near the cudical of the fingernail!
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LOl , Moral of the story.....dont tease the Bowfin!
 
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