Any of your fish give you a bath?

[FINWIN]

Say when transporting a fish, or cleaning do you get soaked?

I've been hosed by four of my fish...Patch (BP), Kong (BP), Bobo (Choc), and Brick (O).

How they got me:

Patch when she took a flying leap from a bucket. Got hit in the face and mopped the floor.

Kong when I tried to net her so I could clean. At 8" she's as strong as my 10" chocolate. Mopped the floor and got pretty soaked.

Bobo when I returned him to the main tank after ich. Ended up changing my shirt and mopping the floor. His fin ribs are really sharp.

Brick the one (and hopefully ONLY) time I moved him to a bathtub...had to change all my clothes and mop the bathroom and fishroom floor. I had to nearly drain everything and roll him in a wet towel. He was kinda pissy after that for two days.

 

[esoxlucius]

My lemonfin barb and tinfoil barb, when eating floating pellets do this thing where they rush to the surface, get a pellet and turn and dive with such force that they soak everything through, and they do this everytime they come for a pellet, which is every few seconds! It's probably an evolutionary protection mechanism against airborne predators. It was never much of an issue when they were small as the splash they created was hardly anything.

When feeding now, instead of taking a whole panel from my canopy, I just slip the panel to one side ever so slightly and drop food through the tiny gap. It's either that or put my raincoat and wellies on at feeding time, lol.

 

[Rocksor]

My kelberi would splash tons of water begging for food or while being fed. Tiny gaps a must when feeding

 

[Deadeye]

My lemonfin barb and tinfoil barb, when eating floating pellets do this thing where they rush to the surface, get a pellet and turn and dive with such force that they soak everything through, and they do this everytime they come for a pellet, which is every few seconds! It's probably an evolutionary protection mechanism against airborne predators. It was never much of an issue when they were small as the splash they created was hardly anything.

When feeding now, instead of taking a whole panel from my canopy, I just slip the panel to one side ever so slightly and drop food through the tiny gap. It's either that or put my raincoat and wellies on at feeding time, lol.

I’ve read goldfish do that as a way to avoid the water surface and its predators. Must be a cyprinid thing.

My mbunas used to make huge messes at feedings. The auratus always liked to get water outside.
Then there is the parrot. He loves to splash. Plenty of times I get soaked by him. The best (and the reason I only feed through the small hole designed for a heater now) was when he literally jumped out of the tank at a feeding. Got that excited that he was literally jumping for joy (and the floor). He’s probably too fat to fit out the lid now but I ain’t taking chances.

 

[FINWIN]

Lol, parrots. Patch is back to doing her divebomb bit out of the water to grab a pellet. Nothing like getting slammed in the face...felt like a punch. So now I lean waaaay back at feeding time. ?

 

[Jexnell]

I have to get Casper to follow my hand to the other end of the tank, then quickly toss the food in and close the lid before he gets back. I learned my lesson when he completely soaked me grabbing food then diving, the wake from his tail....

 

[krichardson]

My big armatus absolutely hated being netted and moved.He would react violently thrashing like a marlin and splashing pails of water all over me.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

My big clown loaches are at the surface when I feed. They know where the food hits the water. they regularly give me a shower. That is a fione way to thank me for delivering dinner. Matbe they thinl it is an appropriate tip. Am I now Uber (or maybe Tank Dash) for fish?

 

[tlindsey]

No soaking but once had a Dwarf Blue Gourami spit water on me when I opened the hood to feed him and tankemates. Never knew a Gourami would do that lol.

 

[esoxlucius]

I have to get Casper to follow my hand to the other end of the tank, then quickly toss the food in and close the lid before he gets back. I learned my lesson when he completely soaked me grabbing food then diving, the wake from his tail....

I bet it's a right bummer drying that beard out everyone you get drenched, lol.

No soaking but once had a Dwarf Blue Gourami spit water on me when I opened the hood to feed him and tankemates. Never knew a Gourami would do that lol.

Do you reckon your dwarf blue gourami had a dissociative identity disorder, and believed it was an archer fish! Lol.