My fish LOVE music

[Debo]

Am I seriously insane or do fish like music. I notice that whenever I play a certain CD...Alison Kraus and Union Station.it's bluegrass.and when this really lively song comes on they all get up and dance!!!! Seriously..the loaches are a riot. it's like when my daughter Heidi would be in her crib and we would sneak in and put this Sesame Street song on..........she would get up and start jumping. Well, the same thing happens to the fish. I can have anything playing and the minute I put on this one song, everyone comes out from where ever they are and start swimming like crazy. Do they actually hear it as music or does it bother them?
Deb {I'll go take a Prozac now}

 

[Eelzor]

I really don't think the fish like the music. Probably it seems to bother them in some sort of way. I have never seen fish do anything like that, although some fish will get a scare out of sudden sounds.

 

[wuvmybetta]

weirdo J/K

maybe they feel the bass or something, try the Sesame Street song on them too,maybe it will be their new fave ,pretty soon they'll start making requests

 

[Pufferpack]

My wife has discovered that our Cichlids do respond well to soothing music. They all have a tendency to do a bit of a freak out when she is cleaning the 90 gal tank but a couple months ago she just happened to be listening to Enya's "Trees" on the CD while she was doing the tank clean and was amazed that every fish in the tank was very mellow and relaxed throughout the whole cleaning. Thinking it was a coincidence she did a test on the next cleaning, she started draining water without music on and as normal the fish started to become aggitated, as soon as she turned on the music they all calmed right down to the point that she actually had to nudge some of them out of the way of the gravel vac.
I believe they can feel the vibrations of the music through the glass and water and soothing rythmical vibrations seem to mellow them out (although Enya could probably mellow out a Chihuahua on crack...zzzzzzzzzz ) I don't think I would try any Metalica unless I wanted to start some heavy duty fighting

 

[aquamanis]

Mine like songs like water over wine, under water love, thicker than water, run to the water, water of love, deep water, bring me some water amongst others but for some reason they all hide when I play "when the water runs dry"

 

[platypus]

LOL aquamanis! What do they do when you play 'albatross'!!