pablo
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Shock horror: Pro aquascapers scare their fish to force schooling before a photo. Cruelty to animals or necessary evil to win an aquascaping competition?
I think fish in nature may exibit this schooling behaviour several times daily, when bigger fish move by. In our tanks (predominantly well planted and healthy here on UKAPS) schooling fish are overly calm due to the lack of predators, abundance of cover and steady flow of food. They often want for nothing and we may overprotect them a little.......... because we love them of course!
I think having bigger fish triggering schooling behaviour would be very natural, but it's likely that the schooling fish will just get used to the bigger fish and mostly stop schooling after a while.If they were being predated upon though this would be a different story.
I think fish in nature may exibit this schooling behaviour several times daily, when bigger fish move by. In our tanks (predominantly well planted and healthy here on UKAPS) schooling fish are overly calm due to the lack of predators, abundance of cover and steady flow of food. They often want for nothing and we may overprotect them a little.......... because we love them of course!
I think having bigger fish triggering schooling behaviour would be very natural, but it's likely that the schooling fish will just get used to the bigger fish and mostly stop schooling after a while.If they were being predated upon though this would be a different story.