can loud music hurt your fish

[charlie09]

i was just wondering......does loud music hurt or bother your fish

 

[XKrinXerZ]

lol, I was wondering about the same thing when I got into fish keeping, untill i came across this tip. Water and Glass deflect sound, and when you are having a conversation in the same room your fish are in, supposabley they can't hear a sound because water and glass deflect sound. I normally play loud music in my room and it doesn't seem to bother them. (They just sit still and like to watch me dance) lol jk.

 

[Tolak]

I think it is more of what they are accustomed to than anything else. Years ago the drummer in a band I was in bred oscars, in the bedroom above where we used to practice. Really loud metal never slowed down their breeding.

Tolak

 

[tttnjfttt]

I'm really going out on a limb here, but I'm gonna guess it might scare them a little or set them on edge, especially when there is a lot of bass. Here is my reasoning, and like i said, it is my reasoning, and am in no way claiming this to be fact in any way, shape, or form.

Ok, when you have your bass up really loud, you feel vibrations, or sound waves, as they travel through the air. I am guessing that as the sound waves hit the tank, they will cause some vibrations in the tank as well. Also, when you tap on your fish tank, it scares the fish, even when it isn't right where they are looking. Tapping on the glass is one way to create vibrations in the tank. Since loud music can cause things to vibrate, and vibrations set fish on edge, I would guess they might be a little stressed by music wiht ALOT of bass, or really loud music.

Does this make any sense?

 

[IovaykInD]

I'm really going out on a limb here, but I'm gonna guess it might scare them a little or set them on edge, especially when there is a lot of bass. Here is my reasoning, and like i said, it is my reasoning, and am in no way claiming this to be fact in any way, shape, or form.

Ok, when you have your bass up really loud, you feel vibrations, or sound waves, as they travel through the air. I am guessing that as the sound waves hit the tank, they will cause some vibrations in the tank as well. Also, when you tap on your fish tank, it scares the fish, even when it isn't right where they are looking. Tapping on the glass is one way to create vibrations in the tank. Since loud music can cause things to vibrate, and vibrations set fish on edge, I would guess they might be a little stressed by music wiht ALOT of bass, or really loud music.

Does this make any sense?

tttnjfttt makes a good point. I say loud music wouldn't affect your fish, you wouldn't hear anything out of water if you were swimming in your pool. tttnjfttt made a good point about the bass, so maybe you could turn off the bass, so there are no vibrations. Then you could turn on the music as loud as you want.

Isaac

 

[thecatdidit]

I'd guess yes, if it is loud, like over 90 decibels. Typical conversation is about 60 dB. Vacuum cleaner about 80 dB. When I used to work for a night club, we'd use a meter and go for 106 dB as the maximum at 5' from a speaker (I believe this is the legal limit). 106 db is loud! I'd wear ear plugs even back in the sound/lighting area. I have a pair of Cerwin Vega VS-80's. These are amazingly loud 8" bookshelf speakers. They are 94 dB @ 1 watt/meter, in other words, the pictures rattle on the wall when I turn it up to 3 with a mediocre 100 watt per channel TEAC receiver (though I love the cassette deck).
My guess is if it loud enough to rattle the pictures, it's rattling the fish... I play anything from reggae to opera. Sometimes my cat likes reggae. Without fail, she likes classical and opera, if it isn't too loud.

 

[XKrinXerZ]

lmao thecatdidit.....

 

[Tolak]

As far as I know, fish will not breed unless they are happy with the situation they are in. Maybe the oscars were metalheads, maybe they were accustomed to their situation. It was way loud, as in double bass drum, full stack Marshall loud.

A hunting dog accustomed to the sound of guns is not affected by the sound in an adverse manner, they were acclimated to it at an early age, it's considered normal. I'll bet other loud noises, such as thunder, don't bother them either.

I've seen plenty of family dogs freak out at the sound of fireworks. Years ago my folks got a puppy, one of the first things I did was sit in the yard with the pup in my lap, & every few minutes toss a smallish firecracker across the yard. It wasn't long before loud noises didn't bother that dog at all. He slept through thunderstorms, fireworks, whatever. My dog has been around power tools, guitars, fireworks, since 8 weeks of age, he's 13 now. Nothing bothers him except the whistle of whistling bottle rockets if he is right by them. He tries to chase them, thinks it's great fun.

I've seen plenty of other dogs, who hear a bit of thunder, a car backfiring, or other loudish sound & start to do the shaking dog thing. Plenty of dogs need to be drugged for July 4th.

I read somewhere about a breeder tapping the tank a few times before each feeding, figuring when the fish get sold there will probably be some tank tapping going on. It wasn't too long before a couple of taps on the tank would result in the fish going to the surface for dinner instead of freaking out as is normally expected.

So I think if the fish are exposed to it on a regular basis, it isn't going to bother them. If they are in a normally quiet environment & you decide to learn to play drums, or start ripping into the wall next to them with a sawzall, they are going to be pretty upset.

Tolak