Question About Weird Behaviour!

[MewMew42]

i took in a red finned loach that i found hiding in the sumps at work, and he/she has been lovely! he/shes has their own coconut cave and is doing well

but he/she has a weird behaviour...every so often she will come out and hover around the tank the go to to top and sort of splash around at the surface for a couple of seconds, it makes an awful racket when you're asleep at night! after that s/he will retire to the cave and do it again about an hour later

whats going on?

edit: it seems like he is jumping out of the water!

 

[jonnyf84]

i took in a red finned loach that i found hiding in the sumps at work, and he/she has been lovely! he/shes has their own coconut cave and is doing well

but he/she has a weird behaviour...every so often she will come out and hover around the tank the go to to top and sort of splash around at the surface for a couple of seconds, it makes an awful racket when you're asleep at night! after that s/he will retire to the cave and do it again about an hour later

whats going on?

edit: it seems like he is jumping out of the water!

strange, kinda cute though. Is there enough oxygen in the water? do the other fish in the tank hover near the surface? As loaches are bottom feeders it is vital to get enough oxygen to the lower strata of the tank, if this isn't the case they'l dart up to get oxygen from the surface, occasionally they'l dart up so quickly that they actually jump. Or maybe he's just a bit mental - god knows how long he was trapped in that sump!!!

 

[MewMew42]

thanks for the reply!

I believe that there is a lot of oxygen as my other loaches are all fine this thing only happens later on in the day, its almost as if he doesn't want to be in my tank!

I love him/her to bits, so cute but a noisy little so n so! =]

 

[loachman]

They're hillstream loaches, so they're adapted to highly oxygenated water. It is possible for there to be enough oxygen for other fish and not enough for the red finned.

Loaches also just have some "odd"/"interesting" behaviors, so that is another possibility.