Apistogramma Playing dead

[Erniec]

I was walking by the tank, I was shocked at first thinking my double red was dieing :(. Then I watched a few minutes and this is what he was doing to get the flash orange out of the cave hahahaha, end of vid shows he is fine. to bad he could not do it on cue lmao

YouTube - ‪Apistogramma Playing dead‬‏

Thanks for watching
Ernie

[Super Fish]

That fish is sure funny ...hee heee how in the world did you train him to play dead and then all of a sudden he gets up and continues to play dead.. now this video sure made my day.. hee heeeeee:)

[h0ngkn0t2]

Is that normal behavior? That's hilarious...almost like my loaches when they sleep on their sides at the bottom of the tank...I always do a double take to make sure they aren't dead.

[brokenhalo]

My old betta that I had for almost 4 yrs would float at the top of the tank and lay on its side "dead". i'd walk by and i would notice and run to the tank to make sure he was ok and soon as id get there he would flip up right and begin begging for food lol. and id fall for it everytime lol.

[Haiven]

That's awesome. Does he want the cave, to fight the orange flash, to eat eggs, ................. what?

[Squirrel]

My loaches will flop over and act dead just to make fun of me when I freak out. But even worse is when my Betta does this think where he bends himself in half and wedges himself in the rocks at the bottom of his vase. :| What kind of substrate are you using?

[Erniec]

Nope as soon as he got the cave he didn't want it any more hahaha. I did have to remove the orange flash to another tank. That trick got him to attack the orange flash so many times the orange flash would just hang out at the top


I use pool sand from lise pool supply, it is real nice and fine and real soft for the bellies. it cost me 16.00 Dollars for 50 LBS. Little more then HD , the color is a lot better also.

[gbin]

Wow, that's a new one for me! roflmao

Thanks for sharing it!

Gerry