Radcliffe

Don't you just love it when your fish make friends? I certainly do!

I am adding fish to my planted 29 gallon, while cycling my 55 gallon for their eventual home. The 55 is showing nitrite and nitrate, so it shouldn't be much longer now.

The two new fish I have added are two clown loaches. Tonight I am watching the clowns roll around, and swim into the caves and just generally make friends with my 3 false bandit corys and my swordtail! It is so darned cute! They are maybe sorta kinda similar in color, and that must be close enough to try to buddy up. Proof positive that these fish need company. They are all more active together than they were before! Never would I have imagined I would see a swordtail playing with a clown loach!

--R, giggling

Fish Kid

sweetest connection i ever saw between fish was when my cory peppered cat got food that my bala sharks couldnt see into his mouth swam over to the ballas and irdiscent n dropped food there swam back n got some more. My =

Radcliffe

Aww that is wonderful!!!

COBettaCouple

fish are great pets and it's fun to watch how they interact with each other.

0morrokh

Ditto. I love watching my fish interact. I've occasionally seen my 3 Corydoras pygmaeus following my Oto Mist around...it was pretty cute.

Bonochick

So cute!

I had only one angel in my tank, named Fitzgerald. I brought home a new angel named Jasper, and while Jasper was still floating in the bag, Fitzgerald stuck right by his side, waiting. It was so cute...I felt bad Fitz had been going without a buddy! They were best pals. When Fitzgerald died, Jasper seemed so lost. It was heartbreaking. He kept trying to swim with my pleco and would hover around him, it was like he didn't know what to do with himself. But then I brought home Jerry, and Jasper did the same thing Fitzgerald had done...



New best friends.

Kevin

that is the reason i love community fish, they always seem to buddy up and accept the one that is feeling lonely

COBettaCouple

that's a cute story.. they really are capable of relationships, more than a lot of people think.

0morrokh

Oh yeah, I've even heard of fish dying of a broken heart a couple days after their tankmate died.

COBettaCouple

yea.. and i know Rose has had Bettas go into mourning when they lost a buddy betta.. they're great pets, even if they don't make as much noise as other pets.

0morrokh

Well that's probably the only reason my mother lets me have so many of them... (or at least what she thinks is so many... : )

COBettaCouple

LOL.

lilsoccakid

im waiting for my tank to cycle and all these stories make me so jealous, i cant wait to get fish!

Howeyg

one of my pentazona barbs shoals with my cardinal tetras

Phloxface

My first Betta, Phlox, who is now sadly passed away became so attached to the large Mystery snail that was in his tank that he stopped stealing his algae pellets and started bringing food to him. Sometimes I'd throw in an algae pellet and it would land on a leaf of a plant. Phlox would see it and go pick it up and take it to the snail and spit it out in front of him. He seemed very concerned if the snail didn't go for it and would keep picking it up and spitting it at him until his snail would eat. Sometimes the snail would hold the pellet and be eating one end and Phlox would be nibbling on the other side. The snail trusted him so much he's let Phlox gently nibble his antenae and wouldn't shrink into his shell upon being touched.

Radcliffe

Awww! I just love stories of fish bringing each other (or even snails!) food. It is both sweet and shows their intelligence.
More more!
--R

Stradius011

I love stories of fish showing friendliness to each other too. I esspecially love the picts.

Shrimpy

wow from now on ur new nickname is the "Buddy Maker" because i have never heard of that before

Radcliffe

LOL I guess so! First it was my otto sitting on top of my dwarf frog, and now my clowns playing with my swordtail. FIsh make excellent pets!

--Radcliffe, Buddy maker.

COBettaCouple

Phlox was definitely a smart & special little guy! He demonstrates just how smart these pets of ours can b.

0morrokh

That is such a cute story about Phlox and the snail.

The only time I've had a Betta with other fish was when Dorado was in the 20 with several Cories and Otos. The Cories included Corydoras pygmaeus which are the smallest species of Cory and only get to an inch...and Dorado is a fairly big boy, so he probably could've badly hurt one if he wanted to. But I never even saw him flare at another fish. He seemed to like the catfish food better than Betta food (which is partly why he is now removed from that tank), and he would sit at the bottom nibbling at the wafer while the tiny little Cories swam all around him, also eating the wafer. Occasionally he tried to play boss and chase them from the food, but the cats hardly noticed...I could just imagine them rolling their eyes at him like "whatever, you go ahead thinking you're the boss but you're not." It was very cute.