Whitney
10-25-2006, 02:58 AM
hi y'all,
I've been noticing some very funny behavior from my diamond tetras. My filter creates a fairly strong current, which I had aimed along the back of the tank, this way the fish were able to easily avoid the current. but there was still some flow in the tank.
a couple of days ago, one of my diamond tetras decided it was a great idea to swim into the current and let it throw him back against the side of the tank....after a little while, my harlequin rasboras started copying him and I had 8 fish pinned up against the side of the tank, trying to swim into the current far enough to get flung back again.
It looked like someone would get hurt, so I adjusted to flow to the back of the tank (that has a sort of rocky facade). The rasboras moved on, but my little diamond tetra has now taking to swimming in and out of the airstone bubbles and into the now shortened filter current against the back. He does this over and over again- sometimes from one side, then he'll go to the other and dive bomb through from that angle.
I think it's very cute..but my question is...is this normal? Should I be worried?
I also have a blue ram that likes to swim up and down against the aquarium glass, I find this troubling as well....should I, or am I just being a worrisome new fish owner and this behavior is totally normal?
I've been noticing some very funny behavior from my diamond tetras. My filter creates a fairly strong current, which I had aimed along the back of the tank, this way the fish were able to easily avoid the current. but there was still some flow in the tank.
a couple of days ago, one of my diamond tetras decided it was a great idea to swim into the current and let it throw him back against the side of the tank....after a little while, my harlequin rasboras started copying him and I had 8 fish pinned up against the side of the tank, trying to swim into the current far enough to get flung back again.
It looked like someone would get hurt, so I adjusted to flow to the back of the tank (that has a sort of rocky facade). The rasboras moved on, but my little diamond tetra has now taking to swimming in and out of the airstone bubbles and into the now shortened filter current against the back. He does this over and over again- sometimes from one side, then he'll go to the other and dive bomb through from that angle.
I think it's very cute..but my question is...is this normal? Should I be worried?
I also have a blue ram that likes to swim up and down against the aquarium glass, I find this troubling as well....should I, or am I just being a worrisome new fish owner and this behavior is totally normal?