something weird you learned about your fish in keeping them

[Hybridfish7]

In my experience with central american cichlids, I learned that they love eating all the weird kinds of algae that other fish will refuse to eat. I had a cutteri pair that would gorge themselves on filamentous algae, and all my convicts eat cyano. It's a funny sight to see a one inch convict ripping a giant sheet of cyano off a rock and slurping it down like spaghetti. I also have an f3 labiatus that likes salvinia more than gambusia.

 

[Deadeye]

They are smarter than we give them credit for. My leporinus and my Jack Dempsey have created a truce where they won’t bother each other at all. At the size the Dempsey is, the leporinus should have decided to remove him like he does other similar size fish, but hasn’t. They have an agreement built around mutual hate for the convict parrot pair, which they are constantly at odds with. The lep and parrot split the tank and anyone who crosses the line gets attacked (which is all the time…parrots and Leps got balls). And the convict does what she wants, as long as her and the Dempsey don’t cross paths, then the good, the bad, and the ugly music starts playing.

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

They are noisy AF like birds at times! As a profound deaf fishkeeper I kind of knew fish made random noises like clicking etc until family member complained about the fish talking too loud constantly waking them up for a week straight so went and investigated what the ruckus was all about in middle of the night and it was the Jaguar cats group protesting about the dominant L264 pleco male hellbent on trying to kick them out of their favorite spot in my old fish room the tank was vibrating with the noises they were making it was neat that they were powerful enough to make the tank glass vibrate like music does since then I moved them to their own 110g stock tub ? just random complaining/discussion among one another not all night loud arguments per family member lol.

 

[Deadeye]

They are noisy AF like birds at times! As a profound deaf fishkeeper I kind of knew fish made random noises like clicking etc until family member complained about the fish talking too loud constantly waking them up for a week straight so went and investigated what the ruckus was all about in middle of the night and it was the Jaguar cats group protesting about the dominant L264 pleco male hellbent on trying to kick them out of their favorite spot in my old fish room the tank was vibrating with the noises they were making it was neat that they were powerful enough to make the tank glass vibrate like music does since then I moved them to their own 110g stock tub ? just random complaining/discussion among one another not all night loud arguments per family member lol.

I’m waiting for my Raphael to start talking…he only makes some soft noises if out of the water but nothing from inside the tank. Probably for the best lol.