Why Do Fish Hang Out In The Same Place?

[Harlequins]

I was just watching my fish and no matter what they're always appear to be hang out together,making the tank look bear on one side!

The corys are ok,they amble around quite merrily over the bottom half,but the harleys,platys & guppies hover around one side,then a while later go to the other side,where they all seem to follow each other

Does yours hang out on one side together or spread themselves around?

 

[stoneagedinosaur]

Rasboras top centre, neons middle left, angels top left by impeller, pepper cories bottom right by filter intake, sterbei - anywhere and everywhere, shrimp in the moss and pleco usually feeding on everything.

Talk about your creatures of habit!

 

[coldcazzie]

my rummy noses def have their places where they like to shoal, and my rams have their own spaces too but they are territorial anyway so...

although it all goes to pot at feeding time LOL

 

[Assaye]

My neons and corys tend to move around but I can promise that there will always be one lone tetra in the bottom back right of the tank and it's always a different one! It's like they're doing guard duty ^^

Aurora (my female betta) and my shrimp patrol the tank and the frogs often hide behind the filter.

 

[MOW4T]

everything in my tank that isnt bottom dwellign hangs out in the top right, underneath where i feed funnily enough

 

[didz04]

My cichlids swim with each other including feeding time, I tell you what the guppies we used to have and all the community we had before cichlids, they were really fun fish. My guppy male which we used to call him quagmire as he used to go after all the females and get them pregnant lol, he used to annoy the black molly and used to nip him and swim off lol

 

[Bebobb]

I have heard things such at the neons hanging around the rilter out put, because it creates a current, and where they are from there is some current. How accurate this is, I don't know, but it deffinately makes sence to me!

Maybe they seem to stay in the same general vicinity because it is the closest to their natural habitat. Take the neons for example. They live in a area where there is current, hence they stay near the filter out put. How ever, my neons don't do this, but I have heard more than once where it has happened.

Just a thought... Makes sence to me, but I don't know how common for neons to do that is.

 

[Ally555]

My neons and corys tend to move around but I can promise that there will always be one lone tetra in the bottom back right of the tank and it's always a different one! It's like they're doing guard duty ^^

That's what mine do. Well, I have glowlights and corys, but they kinda act the same.

The tetras shoal most of the time, but then I'll look in the tank and realise that one tetra isn't with them. It usually scares me because I think something has happened to one of them, but it doesn't take long to find the missing fish.

My corys are a bit different. Two of them are constantly on the search for food and I can always see them (And it's always the same two, never any others). The other three stay in the shipwreck all day and only come out a feeding time.

 

[GAB99]

my rainbows tend to swim around the middle of the tank and the barbs, and the mollys stayed at the top while the catfish stayed in the ruin all day till feeding or lights out.


now in the 55 the rainbows still swim in the center but alot faster and only 2of 5 barbs is out n about, the est hide with the catfish, course its only been a few days and the tank is empty so dont blame em, the mollys hangout together more and still swim the top. catfish still fat and lazy as usual, hedoesnt care as long as he has his little abode lol

 

[FWFishLover]

My Featherfin Is Always Hiding In His Little Rock And Now It Seems Like He Disappeared. As Well As My Yellow Lab Cichlid Who Always Hangs Out By The Filter

 

[hughessomefish]

harley "rasa" as i call them chill out with my platys and guppys and mollys and sometimes my corys and normally all of my fish are on one side except for my ant social elegans cory

 

[Harlequins]

well i've been watching the tank and they appeared to have changed a bit,getting new ember tetras yesterday appears to have changed them,this active little tetras are shoaling back and forth and the harleys and pygmys have joined in

The red platy is due to drop so hence she's hiding up top with the male close by,the blue guppy isn't sure what to do,one of the large female guppys i sold yesterday,well he just pestered her non stop,so he's lost without her and i don't think he can make up his mind whether to pester the 2 younger females just yet

Its so interesting to hear how all your fish behave

 

[hughessomefish]

yes they have minds of there owns lol ....and they sure show it

 

[GAB99]

i like it, personality like a parrot without the noise and mess, low maintenence and no whining from it unless theres something wrong with the filter lol.noones allergic to them and you always know where thy are

 

[coldcazzie]

i like it, personality like a parrot without the noise and mess, low maintenence and no whining from it unless theres something wrong with the filter lol.noones allergic to them and you always know where thy are

I agree - lots of my friends say "oh can't be arsed with fish, it's way too much hassle" but I spend less time looking after my fish than my cats or my rabbits and they are infinitely less annoying than the cats and rabbits too!

Alright the initial cost is greater, but I reckon overall the fish are less expensive than the others (once you add up yearly vaccs, neutering, food, cat litter, sawdust, hay etc), they make less mess, and I actually enjoy taking care of my fish (much prefer water changes over cat litter trays!) And if I don't want to or dont have time to spend half an hr with them, they don't sulk at me, and if I forget to feed them its no biggy!

So if my fish want to be weird and only hang out in one spot - that's fine by me!