whimpy fish....

[ohhsweetness]

okay so i have fish and they are scared sh#tless when
i go to feed them or look at them they just run away and
hide
anyone suggest a good way of getting them not to
hide

and sometimes they dont come out for food either....

 

[joedodge]

what kind of fish are they some are naturaly skitish

 

[duke33]

Sit beside the tank for a while everyday.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

most of the cichlids I have in the 125 get skittish when the tank light is on, but I'll leave it off to observe them...the room is well lit, so I can see them great and they become much more active

 

[COLDasICE]

You can try rescaping the tank to get a little more activity. Sometimes a little shake-up in your tank can be good.

 

[Allan01230]

Are you doing regular water changes? This helps tremendessly. Also give them more than enough places to hide. Also use free swimming fast fish to help the skitish out a bit. Any school of any kind of barbs will work well. Case in point. I have a trio of adult geophagus Balzani in my ninety with a 12 inch scarlet pleco. These four fish hid constantly. I do a 30% percent weekly water change and put a scholl of a dozen Aurlis barbs in there. All my fish stay out in the open even my pleco comes out with the lights on!

 

[sascythe]

well it would be nice to know what type of fish. but i would say they just dont see people enough. becuase i put my 55g right beside my computer and everytime i look around i always catch one of my fish just staring at me. and suprisingly the one i catch doin it the most is my ropefish. which a lot of people say its a very skiddish fish and tends to hide a lot. so i would say they prolly dont see u a lot.

 

[cichlid2006]

filaments work great if you dont have a dither already. worked wonders for me. but like the others said sit by the tank for a while each day. im lucky my tank is in my sitting room next to my pc desk so my fish are always out next to me so they havent had a chance to be shy.

 

[ohhsweetness]

my fish tank is in my room big 6 ft one
im always in my room computers right next to it

7" male rivulatus
5" female rivulatus
8" male jack dempsey
and a

little texas, festae and female jack dempsey about 3"

i see more of the two silver sharks then anything]

and yes tehy have lots of hiding places and regular water changes

 

[ohhsweetness]

Are you doing regular water changes? This helps tremendessly. Also give them more than enough places to hide. Also use free swimming fast fish to help the skitish out a bit. Any school of any kind of barbs will work well. Case in point. I have a trio of adult geophagus Balzani in my ninety with a 12 inch scarlet pleco. These four fish hid constantly. I do a 30% percent weekly water change and put a scholl of a dozen Aurlis barbs in there. All my fish stay out in the open even my pleco comes out with the lights on!

Aurlis barbs what are they ...?