Brookster123
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Good read! No fishy Facebook in my tanks
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I happened to see this article today. Thought it was an interesting read.
Are your shoals big enough? | Blog | Practical Fishkeeping
Interesting read, kinda puts a different light on things doesn't it?
One of my favorite things that I run into in the hobby is all the people who talk about how their fish are "happy" in this or that situation. In fact I caught a few of my students doing that this semester as well. My question to them was, how do you measure happiness in a fish? I've yet to have a fish tell me that it is happy, content, sad, or otherwise in any given situation and I've been doing this for a long time.
What is the difference between a shoal and a school???
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That is a little bit different then my understanding.A school is a group of fish traveling together and a shoal is a group of fish just hanging out. Fish both school and shoal - it's not one or the other. It's just a description of their behavior at any given moment.
Right?! I'm not an aquatic clairvoyant by any means but I'd like to think that a fish that let's it's guard down and breaks from the ranks would be as close to "happy" as possible. The bit on corys constanlty foraging and bopping around made alot of sense too, when i kept a smaller grouo theyd spend much more time under cover.
- its not cowering in the sponge Bob pineapple so it's like soooo happyyyy
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The two times I've had a fish consistently swim far from its group, it ended up dying a few months later.
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Not really what I meant, for instance.. my 8 rummynose tetras will spend 50% of the time maneuvering the tank in somewhat of a school, they'll pick a spot, usually by the Ludwiga leaves and kind of spread out a bit, some will swim in place, others will move about the group checking in with the others if that makes sense.
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I use both terms rather loosely but I think technically a shoaling fish is one that is social with others of the same or similar species, hanging in the same general area, but moving independently. A school is when the fish all act in unison, in an organized manner. That's my take on it anyway.
As dalto mentioned, not sure if any FW fish truly do this, as I've never seen them do it for certain, but I have seen many SW bait fish do it.
Not really what I meant, for instance.. my 8 rummynose tetras will spend 50% of the time maneuvering the tank in somewhat of a school, they'll pick a spot, usually by the Ludwiga leaves and kind of spread out a bit, some will swim in place, others will move about the group checking in with the others if that makes sense.
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Right. I was just laying out what I've seen in my very limited experience. Which includes ... The few times a fish has behaved abnormally, never joining its group, it didn't last.
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