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These clownies are not good for the heart. The places they sleep and the WAY they sleep give me a scare nearly every time
The quality of the pics are not good but you still get the idea...

And this one is a pic (again not very good of one of my asian bumblebee catfish (Pseudomystus siamensis), he thinks he can't be seen in the plant and hangs there quite often now , you can also just see the head of a BGK as well.
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Get used to it they often play dead or getinto places you think it is impossible to get out.

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Oh love it ...

Rule number one ... fish are as individual as you or I. That includes supposedly 'identikit' shoaling fishes such as Cardinals. Watch them long enough, they acquire individual personalities.

As for sleeping in odd places, Red Tailed Black Sharks are particularly noted for this, but it doesn't surprise me to learn that Clown Loaches and other bottom dwellers engage in weird sleeping antics too. I recall the 'Coronary Inducing Cory' that was once posted here that slept in sand ... buried almost up to its dorsal fin! Which performed a VERY good impersonation of a VERY dead fish, but woke up the moment a hand entered the tank ... Whoever owns that fish, post the photos here again and show everyone please, because those photos have to be seen to be believed!

Even my Pandas will engage in these antics. Mine have lots of nice Java Moss to call their own as a soft bedding for the night. Soemtimes I'll see one that's decided to take a nap in there, and it'll look convincingly dead at first sight ... until the food hits the water and then, it's instant wake up time as the fish says "Breakfast! Yay!" and immediately disentangles itself to go and stick its snout in the trough

I've also had two Otocinclus that rested 'piggy back', one on top of the other. One would sit on the heater glass where the thermostat lives, while the other sat on its back. And no, this wasn't a case of one rasping slime coat off the other, because my Otocinclus get their algae munchies in spades. The top one would just sit there while the other let it.

Speaking of odd sights, I've just seen a female Panda Cory stuck in Java Moss. No, she hasn't been sleeping. But there's about eight or nine eggs on the glass next to the Java Moss!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

that was babel's cory, cali, and she doesn't always poke her head in here to see your request...

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