hello everyone, im a FH beginner Hobbyist i just want to ask what is the use of a fishtank mirror? i bought a one last saturday and do i really need to put the mirror 24/7 on the tank? pls reply ty
fishtank mirror
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What would you need it for? I have never had one, but the ends of my 55g are mirrored to make it look bigger. Some fish like their image, some don't. At best they think it is another fish of their own kind. They probably will ignore it.
i just bought this one last saturday because i want to make my fh happy hehe it seemed happy though but anymore advices? will it be good? will he be stress if i will not get the mirror and put it there forever?
I think the purpose of the mirror is to make your FH think it has competition and help it keep its color. I don't know how well it wrks, but yours seems to like his mirror. 
yeah he seems to like his mirror because everytime i put the mirror in his tank, he keeps on surrounding the mirror hehe and end up bumping. And thanks btw sirI think the purpose of the mirror is to make your FH think it has competition and help it keep its color. I don't know how well it wrks, but yours seems to like his mirror.
Actually...
fish, especially aggressive fish appear, to think the mirror image is another fish. Because the real fish (in the tank) performs behaviors which it intends to intimidate (or submit) to the other fish and it gets none of the expected responses, it creates both aggression and fear. Not happiness.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/may/fish-facing-mirror-051710.html
http://pets.thenest.com/goldfish-react-mirrors-10601.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_thi...lf_recognition_and_social_behavior_video.html
fish, especially aggressive fish appear, to think the mirror image is another fish. Because the real fish (in the tank) performs behaviors which it intends to intimidate (or submit) to the other fish and it gets none of the expected responses, it creates both aggression and fear. Not happiness.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/may/fish-facing-mirror-051710.html
http://pets.thenest.com/goldfish-react-mirrors-10601.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_thi...lf_recognition_and_social_behavior_video.html
shall I dispose the mirror sir? you said using mirrors can cause the fish to be more aggressive but develops fear at the same time? i really want my fh to be more aggressive but i dont want him to develop such fear
I don't want to sound like a lawyer, but, I was just posting that as an fyi. Imo, I would not use a mirror after reading that. Certainly there are a lot of species where aggression seems to play little or no role in their biology where a mirror just isn't that negative. Even for aggressive fish, mirrors don't kill them or cause disease, so it's not like ich or ammonia.
But mirrors do seem to cause unnatural and unwanted neural conditions in the fish brain.
Would it be enough to cause a fish to eat less, be more aggressive with other fish, have a lower immune system, avoid parts of the tank, etc.? Tbh, I have no idea. That's a conjecture at the moment.
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