Can you tell if your fish are happy?

[Tremelle]

I spend alot of time looking and admiring my fish. I have often wondered if they are happy or not. How can you tell if your fish are happy?

 

[Anonymous]

i'm of the opinion my clarkii clown actually smiles. the link is to a picture, if it works..

chris

 

[Anonymous]

Looks to me like he's flipping you the bird...

 

[Anonymous]

maaaybe

 

[bowser]

Nice tank Pojohnny

The only way I can (honestly) tell that they are happy is by the way they swim around (fins wide open), by their color (intense, no fading), and the way they eat (like pigs)!!

I think that they are happy when my yellow tang snatches the algae sheet out of my hand and then zips away, I can imagine that she is laughing at me!! When the firefish flick their dorsal fins in morse code, I imagine that they are plotting a tank take over!!!

Of course I could just have too much time on my hands......

 

[Jan-Dman]

yes i can, if my fish are smiling

a hungry fish is a happy fish

 

[Mac1]

I hesitate to say I can tell when the fish are "Happy", however I know for a fact when they're pissed. With luck they spend less time mad and angry, than not indicating much of anything.. and I'll call them "Happy" fish. There was one time I knew for sure my Tang was happy. He was in his corner of the tank, resting on the sandbed, and had labored breathing, short, shallow breaths. He had just finished off about 3-days worth of Dried Nori from BSD (and it was a fresh batch from BSD, still moist even), his belly was so fat, I'm surprised he could even swim. I knew emphatically, that he was "Happy" for that moment.

- Mac

 

[afss]

I figure that If they are well colored and active they are "happy" or atleast as "happy" as they are going to be in a tank. Also I figure my fish are "happy" as the 2 banggai's breed. I figure if they were "un-happy" they would be unlikely to do this although I could be wrong. Its been know to happen on occasion

Scott
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blue moonshine

 

[Anonymous]

The clown looks good but that anemone looks a little bleached. It also looks a little new for the addition of an anemone. You crashed in Feb 2001?

Good luck

Dan

 

[Tremelle]

^^

 

[Rich-n-poor]

well mine took down their pc's and put up a disco ball in its place. I saw one of percs rolling a keg of beer behind the rocks. And the strippers just showed up i'd say they're a little too happy. think Ill rent some scuba gear and crash the party

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recession

 

[bowser]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

 

[esmithiii]

My fish are in therapy. I am hoping that they will be happy in the near future.

 

[Anonymous]

the tank totally crashed last feb. yes, the anemone does look bleached, he was that color when i bought him.

if a tank has fully cycled and the equipment and water paremeters look good, why would it possibly! be 'too soon' to add an anemone?

 

[Mouse]

Im with bowzer, defenately the basis for assuming if fish are happy. But then again mine have a happy dance, which only my fish do because there so damn happy. Thats all except for Lenny the Blenny who's a manic depressive. But im sure he'll get over it, he just looks so sad sitting and sighing on the rocks.

 

[cubera]

We have a Sailfin Tang that wags his(?) tail like a dog when my wife or I walk up to the tank. He also eats from our hands. Too cool!

 

[jreef1]

Happy? Maybe but my Purple Tang aptly named Killer definetely still needs some Prozac.