This is kind of interesting, my oscars seem to be chillin because of...

[chronic]

Dvorak classical music lol
I'm trying to figure out what to do with one of them. Its hard... so I'm procrastinating trying to see if I can make things work in the mean time.

Keeping the light off obviously helps. But just out of curiousity, I thought maybe some tunes would at the very least distract them.

So I put some ear plugs in a bag, put the bag just under the water and threw some classical on my old mp3 player. Been playing all day, and they have been so well behaved?! I know its probably a coincidence, but I thought I would share my experiment.

I should play around, see if some metal makes them crazy, and if drum and bass or goa psy trance makes them move!

[Northernguy]

That'll be interesting to see if it continues to work.
Nice work though!

[Brookfish]

You sure it's not a tuna fish? :hmm3grin2orange:
just kidding, that's an interesting project, keep us updated.thumbs2:

[VoidParadigm]

Interesting project, hope you do some more experiments like it!

When I was 14 one of my goldfish tanks was right by the computer. Whenever I played heavy beat dance music my male goldfish would swim in patterns back and forth across the tank. =]

[chronic]

You know, as crazy as it is.. it seems to be working still lol They listened to dvorak all day. No body looks injured.. They're not fighting.

I tried some kind of dance/rave beats by Ibiza, apparently they dont like that...

But some mellow drum and bass seems to be ok by them lol I say they dont like the dance because they started fighting. Now with dnb they're not heh.

Nifty.

[VoidParadigm]

Alright... someone turn on Barry White near their tanks... see if their fish spawn. =P

[chronic]

I'm on it!

[iluvmyfishes]

thats really cool you go nice to knw fish might be more intellegent than we think they are.thumbs2:

[Katt]

That`s very intersting.
Hope it work`s in the long run for you, and them.

[bluebluecow]

I thought of you when I read this months PFK, theres a small article about music and fish, aparently studies have showen that seabream grow faster in captivity if played mozart lol

And apparently other studies with koi showed they reacted to different types of music

Liz

[Rue]

Very interesting. I wonder how long it would take them to habituate to the sound?

[chronic]

Thats a good question! I hope long enough for them to get fat and lazy not wanting to fight lol

bluebluecow, I read something like that just a couple weeks ago. It was probably the same study as you're talking about. It was with goldfish, and same deal. I came across it because I wanted to make sure the vibrations weren't going to harm them. I never did find out how harmful vibrations were, I just came to the conclusion small ear plugs were at about 1/10th the power of music played in the apt.


But yeah, they are still being so good! Like I said in the beginning, once and a while they will nip at each other. But nothing like it was! It was so bad for a while I was hell bent on getting rid of one for fear they may get really hurt.

So, fingers crossed. We'll see what happens.

[chronic]

Well, its been over a week. GF and I have been recording their behavor on our calender to see if there is a cycle or anything.

They finnaly bit the ear plugs and poped the bag, so the ear plugs are dead lol

But that was on saturday, since then they have been fine! I have my lights back on the timer and they have acting normal! They're eating pellets in the mornings again, they'll nip at each other once in a while. But otherwise, just leave each other alone and swim around.


So I dont know what to think. If they get angry again, I'll try throwing some tunes on for a week and see if it helps again?!

Very happy! Its been stressful until now...