Noisy eaters

[esoxlucius]

This is something i've observed before whilst filling my tanks at water change time, but I thought i'd share with you guys.

We know that our fish, especially the bigger ones, can be very noisy at feeding times. But we usually associate the noise with splashing.

However, there is another quite unusual noise that happens at feeding time, but a noise that you would struggle to hear over the background sound of the kids, or a television or the other half giving you grief etc etc.

If it is totally silent whilst doing a water change, typically for me this is very very early in the morning at weekends, just throw in a few sinking pellets as the tank is filling, and listen..........it's like a dawn chorus of chomping and gnashing as the fishes pharyngeal teeth go to work on the hard pellets. Haha, it's amazing the things one does for entertainment when one's bored. Try it.

 

[Shane templar]

My oscars you can hear crunching up most things! I’m sure I’ve even heard it when they’ve ate garden worms! I heard my royal pleco rasping on the wood before and that used to set the dog off barking in the night!!

 

[esoxlucius]

My oscars you can hear crunching up most things! I’m sure I’ve even heard it when they’ve ate garden worms! I heard my royal pleco rasping on the wood before and that used to set the dog off barking in the night!!

Lol, I can just imagine you tentatively creeping downstairs in the middle of the night in just your under crackers with a baseball bat, ready to thwart any would be burglars!

 

[Shane templar]

?? she usually only does if she hear a fox or a cat out the back! I came down once and didn’t see anything out the back and she was still barking and that’s when I heard the pleco!! Even worse when I’m just sat there watching telly in the dark and she just jumps up and starts barking ?

 

[jjohnwm]

My avatar pic is a Musk Turtle that resides in a tank in the den; whenever I am rooting around in one of the basement tanks I usually grab a couple dozen Pond and Ramshorn snails and toss them in with the turtle as a sort of mobile snack bar. He is very active and spends a lot of time actively searching for them. When he finds one, anyone upstairs knows about it; a quiet early-morning coffee-and-crossword session is frequently shattered by that loud crunching. It sounds like a large dog eating a large Milkbone; when my dog hears it he normally goes into the "I want one too!" moon-eye routine.

 

[Rdurha1]

Let's see, Noisey eater...... I would have to say that trophy would have to go to Lt. Dan my Saddled Bichir. At 18" when he hits floating pellets at night you would swear that a tank just blew out. Every so often he also spazes out and literally bounces off the walls of the tank which deffinetly is an impressive sound. Lt. Dan is fast outgrowing his 90gal tank. Dont hate I know that the 90g is really to small for him, I'm looking to buy a house this fall and want to build a him a 6'x4'x18" bichir mansion!

 

[EntoStentor]

If anyone has owned rhino plecos you know what that's like. Not exactly eating but close enough

 

[Belial]

i can hear my bala sharks making kissing noises from across the house

 

[FINWIN]

My parrot Patch dive bombs the glass lids when she grabs pellets. Sounds like someone punching a door. At times my Oscar Brick does this loud "gulp/burp" noise followed by thumps on the glass lid. Once he threw about a gallon of water on the floor trying to get a large mealworm.

You can hear their noise coming downstairs.

 

[Ogertron3000]

I remember my wife's disgust when I first met her and took her to the LFS just in time to see the owner chucking some live yabbies into the large cichlid display tank and hearing "oh my god, gross, I can hear them crunching" as the feast commenced.