Fish

Zebra Danio

So my zebra danio, Ares, reminds me of busy or athletic people. He constantly swims around his tank and hardly ever stops. but there's something else about him that reminds me of people. Like any of us, fish can catch diseases. When my blue fruit tetra had the ich, I noticed that Ares changed. He swam less and kind of just stayed in one place and would only swim every few minutes. At first I thought he was sick too. After my blue fruit tetra died, Ares was still acting irregular(at this time he was in an isolated tank with Camaro, a baby bumblebee platy). I was very worried. After all the other fish were gone, Ares remained this way until about a week later. He went back to his old routine. Then I was wondering what was wrong with him because he definitely wasn't ill or infected. What had happened to Ares? Once I found out what it was, I was slightly shocked because he had been depressed. A fish being depressed? I didn't really see how that is possible due to their very tiny brains, but I had seen it firsthand so I suppose that was the case. This makes him very similar to us when someone we have lived with for almost our whole lives die.

Bumblebee Platy

My bumble bee platy, Camaro, often stayed at the bottom of the tank all day and would sort of swim in circles some times. He was a lot like people with anxiety disorders. When I see people with anxiety disorders they are either super shaky and try to do a lot of stuff or they stay in one area and kind of sit there awkwardly. When my other fishies tried to 'socialize' with him, he got scared and went all crazy around the tank. Now, this is very strange because bumble bee platies are just fine in regular aquariums with the same type of fish as were in my tank. So why was he like this? Was he just sick? No. Actually I found out that he was stressed out a lot and needed specific care for only him. That was really weird because I have never ever seen a stressed out fish before... But It made lots of sense. His stressed nature made him like humans as well because we get so stressed that we eventually can die. In his case, he lost his fish slime and got attacked by ich.

Fruit Tetras

I had three fruit tetras: Markie(yellow), Buddy(blue), and Magenta(pink). These fish had the least personality out of every single fish I have ever had. They just did things that you would imagine any fish would do and they never made me think and never surprised me. Even though they were very pretty, they were boring fish.

Tiger Tetras

I have no idea if they are called tiger tetras, but I had a fish that had tiger stripes and he was my most favorite fish. His name was Stanley and he had so much personality. He made me laugh a lot because he would do such silly things that you would never imagine a fish to do. His favorite place to be was inside a pineapple I had in the tank, he loved it in there and would only come out during the day. When the ich struck, Stanley tried to live through it. I could tell he was going to leave because he lost his personality and began to just stay in one place and stare eerily. Then I realized that the ich had eaten the top of his head off....I was crushed... It was such a sad moment to see the inside of his head and see how disoriented he was. Once he died, I couldn't flush him down the toilet. I had to bury him so that he would always be here with me. He really was a good fish...