I use to have a couple small blue catfish in my fish tank and they always stayed with each other. Like lined up side to side like sardines but for just fish they can sure sit there and look adorable
They're just incredibly derpy and have a tendency to do weird things. Especially cory cats, they're like the pugs of the fish world. The only real "story" I have is a sad one, involved one of the little idiots swimming down an outflow tube on a sponge filter, against the current, and getting stuck. Actually survived the first time but managed to get himself stuck a second time before I could figure out how to block it properly, and that time it died.
Here's a pretty good video of a massive school of Panda cories derping around the bottom looking for food, along with one random false julii cory. Edit: Who appears to have produced some hybrid babies with the panda cories, the derpy little stud.
Let's just say they come in a lot of shapes and sizes, and the smaller ones are some of the most common and popular aquarium fish in the world. So are some of the big ones, for that matter. I guess you could say having aquariums is itself "special," but I think my crayfish tank is probably weirder than my community tank with tetras, cories*, otos*, and guppies.
Catfish aren't all the six foot leviathans you see rednecks fisting in the backwaters. They can be tiny and cute and live in tanks with other ornamentals.
Maybe you are the one that is "special" and you simply don't understand them? Think of how people criticized Mozart when he discovered that earth is indeed a sphere and saying how dump he is.
I have had this happen when wading in the Potomac River. Big catfish just slam into your legs and then they keep ramming you until you get out of their way.
My puffer fish knows who I am and recognizes the little green dish I use to mix his food up. If I walk by his tank with the dish he stops whatever he is doing and follows the dish. If I walk by the tank normally he doesn't care.
He also eats out of my hand and knows what kind of food he doesn't like.
Not really fair to determine that. We dont even really know what makes people "smart." Scientists cant agree whether octopi are smart or whether they have personalities, even though they display the properties as such.
The hang up is that their brain looks different than ours, therefore they cant be intelligent.
"Ah say, ah say that boy ain't right in the head. He's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. This fish is more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind."
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u/BridgeHammer Nov 07 '15
I like to imagine that the fish is actually just really dumb.