Will Loud Noise Bother The Fish?
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dane261
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heard of the salom dance 
i like me loud music and have had the fish spawn
cheers dane
i like me loud music and have had the fish spawn
cheers dane
Here goes this little tale again! 
Long ago, when I was younger & wilder, I played guitar in a metal band. It was as loud as you could imagine a double bass kit, 100w of tubes pushing a full stack, and bass run through a 4x15 bottom would be. We practiced at the drummer's house, who also bred oscars. It is generally accepted that breeding fish are happy fish. The fish did just fine, much happier than any of the neighbors, as the fish never called the cops.
I fugure it is similar to any animal getting acclimated to their environment. Plenty of dogs live in a noisy city environment just fine, they are accustomed to the 24/7 racket.
Long ago, when I was younger & wilder, I played guitar in a metal band. It was as loud as you could imagine a double bass kit, 100w of tubes pushing a full stack, and bass run through a 4x15 bottom would be. We practiced at the drummer's house, who also bred oscars. It is generally accepted that breeding fish are happy fish. The fish did just fine, much happier than any of the neighbors, as the fish never called the cops.
I fugure it is similar to any animal getting acclimated to their environment. Plenty of dogs live in a noisy city environment just fine, they are accustomed to the 24/7 racket.
Mikaila31
Always Watching
My 55 gal is in the bottom floor of our house. My mom does daycare down there during the weekdays, normally there is about 8 kids here. She has been doing this for 17years(since I was born). It doesn't seem to bother the fish much. I wish I could say the same thing and people wonder why I don't like kids .
cheers,
Mikaila31
.cheers,
Mikaila31
Careful. I had a 60G tank in the lounge with amongst other things 6 red line torpedo barbs. One night me and the mrs had a really loud music session. Woke up the next day to 5 of the red lines belly up.
There is certainly the potential for you to kill you fish with loud music, especially particularly skittish breeds.
There is certainly the potential for you to kill you fish with loud music, especially particularly skittish breeds.
Darkerwhite2
Fishaholic
Dont quote me on this. I saw this on a tv episode national geographic about how fish hear. it might have something to do with the way sound moves through water, or just the way the fish's ears function.
So it goes like this: fish cannot hear the higher pitched sounds like our voices or some music but lower bass sound such as footsteps or tapping on the glass or a low bass thump from a subwoofer. now im no smart guy. but part of me thinks that this is because the way sound travels through the water and only the larger wave lengths of the low sounds travel through the water. And please correct me if im wrong i might have mixed up the (wavelength and mixed frequency up with the pitch of a sound).
Anyway so as i think it stands most fish cannot hear high pitched noises, but lower pitchs sounds the fish do hear and so a loud thump of a subwoofer may spook and will stress the fish out.
Now this doesnt mean that all low pitch sounds harm the fish but i think that the louder ones could.
So it goes like this: fish cannot hear the higher pitched sounds like our voices or some music but lower bass sound such as footsteps or tapping on the glass or a low bass thump from a subwoofer. now im no smart guy. but part of me thinks that this is because the way sound travels through the water and only the larger wave lengths of the low sounds travel through the water. And please correct me if im wrong i might have mixed up the (wavelength and mixed frequency up with the pitch of a sound).
Anyway so as i think it stands most fish cannot hear high pitched noises, but lower pitchs sounds the fish do hear and so a loud thump of a subwoofer may spook and will stress the fish out.
Now this doesnt mean that all low pitch sounds harm the fish but i think that the louder ones could.
One has to wonder that if loud low frequency sounds can harm fish how do they deal with a thunderstorm in the wild? Many parts of the tropics have thunderstorms nearly daily. Thunder is loud, as well as low frequency.
tetraqueen
Fish Addict
I would say try it and see, I always try to keep mine out of the way but with an autistic lad that was near on impossible. What i did notice was the bala sharks jumped at movement and not so much noise.
it maybe a thought if your arms were moving as in drum playing i guess i would just watch how mush movement you use when strumming the guitar near the tank.
I guess if you care enough you will observe and adapt as necessary.
it maybe a thought if your arms were moving as in drum playing i guess i would just watch how mush movement you use when strumming the guitar near the tank.
I guess if you care enough you will observe and adapt as necessary.
Certain loud noises do seem to affect and even kill fish, earlier this year the house next to mine was being renovated and they took down the wall on the other side of my garage which took around a day of constant heavy banging and drilling with a pneumatic breaker, while this was going on the fish were clearly very stressed and that night i lost 3 fish which included a large stingray, it took the rest of the fish several days to settle back down to their normal routines and stop being jumpy and nervous.
On a lighter note whenever our son runs down the stairs doing his impression of a herd of elephants or we have the TV turned up too loud and their is a explosion type sound from whatever we are watching the 4 toad fish in the brackish tank all start croaking and grunting.
On a lighter note whenever our son runs down the stairs doing his impression of a herd of elephants or we have the TV turned up too loud and their is a explosion type sound from whatever we are watching the 4 toad fish in the brackish tank all start croaking and grunting.
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