Fish Seisures?

[Scott MacAdam]

well today i was looking into my tank and all of a sudden my cyclid came out of his hiding sopt and looked at me through the glass, then just started shaking....... as if he were a cell phone on vibrate...... this is very strange... anyone ever experience this? it only lasted a second but was kinda funny and scary all at the same time.......

 

[SamUK]

is it an african cichlid?


cos they do that.

 

[Scott MacAdam]

Yep it's african.... i never knew that....so it's ok to laugh?? hahahaha!
it was sooo funny but then i realized there might be something wrong...\
why do they do this???

 

[Jules H-T]

My Kribensis seem to do it as a mating dance.

 

[Scott MacAdam]

hahahahahaha!! that's awesome.

 

[redswi]

years ago I had a pair of Oscars that did the same thing...almost like they caught a chill

 

[diburning]

check for stray currents in your tank... maybe the cichlids broke your heater or something.

 

[Scott MacAdam]

heater is good, that's halarious that they just shake! Is there any explaned reason for this, mathing dance was one, up on the post.

i'm going to look into this and find some answers!

 

[SamUK]

i have an auratus who runs my tank and he seems to do it as a sign of aggression cos he then goes on to woop everyone.


think its his war cry.

 

[ccccc]

I like to randomly shake sometimes too, for no reason, it's normal lol just kidding