Stress Fishes?

[Jackie]

Why fishes in LFS are so calm and always looking at me but my fishes always hiding when I come close to the tank?

[Blom]

Color pattern in the room? Im not sure, but my fish are the same. I always just figured they had more places to hide in my tank so they do.

[Seamazter]

They are like puppies at the pound,
they are on their best behavior so you adopt them.



My money is on the more places to hide in your tank.

[Leah]

My fish hardly ever hide...what fishy's do you have? Mine are all piggies and think that I have food for them every time I pass. Mine are also in a high traffic area.

[Jackie]

Originally Posted by Leah

My fish hardly ever hide...what fishy's do you have? Mine are all piggies and think that I have food for them every time I pass. Mine are also in a high traffic area.

FOWLR - 65G with 30G sump
Singapore Angel, Copperband, Spotted Kole Tang, Blue Tang, 2 Chromis, Shrimp Goby and a pair of true/false Clown. All over 2-3 years old.

[Leah]

Originally Posted by Jackie

FOWLR - 65G with 30G sump
Singapore Angel, Copperband, Spotted Kole Tang, Blue Tang, 2 Chromis, Shrimp Goby and a pair of true/false Clown. All over 2-3 years old.

Doh! How did I miss your signature. I guess I need more coffee.

Really strange though, they do not seem like fish that would spook that easily.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Leah

My fish hardly ever hide...what fishy's do you have? Mine are all piggies and think that I have food for them every time I pass. Mine are also in a high traffic area.

+1

[lee9]

How long have they been in the tank? I found my Flame Angel took a good 1.5 - 2 months of getting accustomed to me before it wouldn't hide all the time. Other fish seem to be ok with a person right away.

I think it also depends on how quickly you approach the tank. Sometimes mine still get spooked if I walk by quickly.

You might be able to lure them with a little bit of food when you walk up all the time too Mine seem to know when it's time to get fed.

[daniella3d]

Maybe because they are hungry? They usualy starve them so if someone ask to see the fish feed, it will feed.

Also at the LFS they don't have places to hide, so that does not reaffirm their instinct to hide. Same thing with aggressivity usualy. You can have a tank full of discus and if there is nothing in the tank except filtration there will be no fighting at all...but put just one piece of driftwood and bye bye peace.

I think if we had no where for the fish to hide, they would get used to be in the open and lose most of their fear.

I have a niger trigger that was ok at the LFS when I bought it, but there was no place in the tank of him to hide. IN my tank I only see him at lunch time and the rest of the time he's underneat my liverock in a large cave that he digged in the sand. No fish are attacking him, as I only have a copperband, pajama cardinal, occelaris clownfish and mandarin...so it,s not because he's been attacked...don't ask It's not acclimatation either because I have him for more than a year now. At feeding time he's a beast...but as soon as he's full it's skittish mode again.

Originally Posted by Jackie

Why fishes in LFS are so calm and always looking at me but my fishes always hiding when I come close to the tank?