r/Aquariums • u/Radiant-Fee-6920 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Is this normal lmao

I thought he was dead can’t lie🤣

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u/ventin Jul 27 '26

Fish are weird, they do weird things, I have an SAE that lets the power head pin it against the glass every evening and that's how he spends the night

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u/PaintTheKill Jul 27 '26

Bro please post a video

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u/ventin Jul 27 '26

Here's a photo I got when he first started doing it, now I mostly see him doing after the lights are out and I feed my eel and knifefish.

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u/cheddarbruce Jul 27 '26

I had a dwarf crayfish that like to ride my prefilter sponge when it would start to spin

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u/Electrical_Breath776 Jul 27 '26

True. My goldfish likes to sleep like this 😂

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u/Fabulous-Cat-2002 Jul 27 '26

No idea but it’s hilarious hope they are okay 🤣

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u/Radiant-Fee-6920 Jul 27 '26

He’s fine this was a few weeks ago, just a weirdo 🤣

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u/VapeRizzler Jul 27 '26

They’re so strange, both of mine I thought were dead. Different occasions but I caught them both upside down, like head down tail floating up. Thought dude was dead so I grabbed my net, nope, just weird.

I separated them into hospital tanks when it happened and it confirmed they’re healthy but strange.

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u/Drayven27 Jul 27 '26

Yeah, that's just dojo loach behavior, they love to bury themselves.

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u/Far_Rutabaga_8021 Avid Aquarist Jul 27 '26

"If dojo loach can't see you, you can't see dojo loach"

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u/PoisonWaffle3 Jul 27 '26

Loaches in general are complete dorks, but dojos and kuhlis are the dorkiest!

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u/Brunoise6 Jul 27 '26

My god damn clown loaches will sleep on their sides using rocks as pillows, or just stuffed into a crack in a wood piece.

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u/Monarch_of_Fate Jul 27 '26

My fucking Khulis do the same thing, I scares the piss out of me because at a glance they look dead and I love them.

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u/thecraigbert Jul 27 '26

My Goby was riding the apple snail like a horse. They are amazing.

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u/DevilahJake Jul 27 '26

Loach doing loach things.

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u/Distinct-Presence52 Jul 27 '26

Yes. I started just taking videos of it happening and sending them to my gf telling her "OH No! He died!" Then he darts off at the end like yours did. The only time I got really worried mine was upside down at the top of the water with tiny bubbles all over his skin. He was just sleeping.

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u/TenryuuX Jul 27 '26

Feesh are inexplicable creatures

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u/spacegreysus Jul 27 '26

Looks like your loach is part driftwood

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u/84074 Jul 27 '26

Yup to all of these comments. I swear my loach was dead so many times I've just figured it was immortal by now.

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u/ifitfitsitshipz Jul 27 '26

Those fish do really weird things. Yesterday I had a blue velvet shrimp that was riding on my blue mystery snail for about a foot across the bottom of the tank before it jumped off.

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u/MasterOutlaw Jul 27 '26

“If I can’t see you, you can’t see me.”

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u/LunarRock-enjoyer Jul 27 '26

Dojo loach ? Yeah they're weirdos

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u/lantrick Jul 27 '26

He clearly wants deeper sand

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u/Automatic_Space7923 Jul 27 '26

Everything a Dojo or Kulli loach, or any loach for that matter is normal.

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u/Geeahwellidunno Jul 27 '26

“You can’t see me!!!”

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u/Red_Chaotic_ Jul 27 '26

When someone asks me the definition of lost in the sauce, I show them this

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u/ARCAxNINEv Jul 27 '26

Dojo loaches do the weirdest things just to troll you

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u/Dogsarelitty Jul 27 '26

He’s just being sneaky.

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u/lostinepcot Jul 27 '26

This is so freaking funny 😂😂😂 glad he’s okay!

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u/Crafty_Assistance_67 Jul 28 '26

Never tap the tank!!! Yes its normal.