Yeah they don't get any less timid really. Mine used to do that when the peacock bass were feeding, it startled him when they would hit food at the surface and it would freak out and fly across the 240. He is a little calmer in the pond with the other big shovelnose and alot more space but still spazzes out sometimes and makes a lap around it but not like the planiceps freaks out. How are the ornate and the irwini doing? ~Trent