Have You Ever Seen Your Fish Sleep?

[Jpmc™]

Haven't seen the little buggers ever take a nap. I can tell they rarely sleep because they pick at the gravel at night.
Back 3 years ago, when I had a betta, it's basically all he did was sleep.

 

[kizno1]

mine do if i switch the lights off at night for about 15min and come back in when i switch the light on there all on the bottom not doing nothink apart from breathing and slowligh moving there fins

 

[snowflake311]

Yes at night when the lights have been off for a while. I will slowly walk by my Rasboras all stay very still near the top and don't move. My others just find a stop on the ground and sit. My plecos they take naps during the day and stay up most of the night.

 

[Rediahs]

My betta likes to sleep in between the heater and the wall I keep thinking it will burn him but he seems to love it there even with all the plants and etc in his tank, it's his favourite spot.

Yes it is stuck onto the side of the tank with suckers. It's just he can fit between anyway...

 

[Ally555]

My betta likes to sleep in between the heater and the wall I keep thinking it will burn him but he seems to love it there even with all the plants and etc in his tank, it's his favourite spot.

Yes it is stuck onto the side of the tank with suckers. It's just he can fit between anyway...

Mine does that too.

I have seen my angelfish and glowlight tetras sleep. They just sit down near the bottom not moving.

I used to have a shipwreak in a tank with neons and every night they would go inside the shipwreak to sleep and come out a few minutes after the lights went on in the morning. It was cute!!! lol

 

[lily-rae]

i got really worried once in the morning i switched the cichlids lights on and thought..oh hell i killed em all..well silly me they were sleeping every single one

 

[Amunet]

Yep... I wake my fish up frequently at night lol.
After the lights have been off for a while, turn them back on and most of the fish are in their little spots. Most of them are resting on the bottom, some are resting in between the filter intake/heater, etc and tank wall, or up in a corner.

 

[bagu]

yea, 20 -30 mins after lights off, my Rummy nose tetras are still, and low, oblivious to any movements near them, and Dwarf Puffer has a nap too ^^ she wedges herself inbetween the vallis xD

 

[lily-rae]

im sorry i just have to say..i take the micky out of them sometimes and pretend they are like the waltens or is it little house on the prery(i no i spelt that wrong) but you know .......Night john boy an so on..lol.

 

[wilsonian]

I've noticed that my T-Barbs loose their colour once the lights are out and slowly sink to the bottom.

 

[star4]

My fish also have thier favorite spots to "sleep" my big plecs will sleep anywhere and sometimes scare me by not moving at all.