Loach Behaivour

[freddythefish]

My two polka-dot loaches keep swimming up and down the glass and up and down the corners...I have just read that with pufferfish this is a sign of boredom so is it the same for all fish and does it apply to mine?

 

[HughÉire]

My two polka-dot loaches keep swimming up and down the glass and up and down the corners...I have just read that with pufferfish this is a sign of boredom so is it the same for all fish and does it apply to mine?

My two bengal loach also do this but i do not know why. It is usually at night when the light is off

 

[freddythefish]

Mine do it all day ...welcome to the forum btw

 

[Corleone]

My understanding with loaches is that they follow the contours of obstacles to find a way around. I've seen a lot of loaches run up and down glass, they may jut be trying to find a way over it into another body of water.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Some loaches are also very sensitive to the weather and will display strange behavior like pacing up and down the tank when stormy weather is approaching etc.

 

[freddythefish]

REALLY...thats wierrd..I will look out for that..maybe i COULD BE A WEATEHR AMN

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yeah it is a bit freaky, for example the Dojo loach is also known as the weather loach because it is so sensitive to such things- khuli loaches are also very sensitive to the weather, i remember when i had a big group of them their activity levels would go through the roof on rainy nights after the weather had been dry for a while.

 

[freddythefish]

I don't suppose it could cause seizures could it...I know someone whos are all dying from seizures!

 

[ox5477]

well sensing the rain could be a hyper-sensivity to magnetism. Usually with rain and/or thunder storms, comes increases in electrical and magentic activity in the air. the loaches could be one of many perceived species of animals to have this, "sixth-sense" if you will, for sensing when a storm is moving in.

quite amazing that there could be possible natural evolutions in species to actually sense things that we can't even grasp being able to sense

 

[shelaghfishface]

i dunno if they are similar,but my clown loaches do this, i recentley noticed them do it constantly when they had whitespot tho, but they do it when they are wll too


shelagh xxxx