My sucker fish tried committing suicide!
By moonchild1au
@moonchild1au (6240)
Australia
December 29, 2010 10:21pm CST
I have 2 sucker fish in my tank with my goldfish as they are too small to be in with my red devil cichlid & my hubby went into the kitchen the other night & found the sucker fish on the floor...we thought it was dead so I picked it up & held it in my hand while putting it back in the tank...it swam away straight up...have you evr had a fish that liked to try to commit suicide?
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6 responses
@Rmalcolmti (60)
• United States
30 Dec 10
My grandmother had a fish that kept ramming itself in to the Glass. it first would swim around the tank around the glass and then bam it was into the glass.
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
30 Dec 10
Wow, I have never had a fish keep ramming itself into the side of the tank before.
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
1 Jan 11
I think that is soooo funny!! 
Sorry, I'm not trying to be cruel
Sorry, I'm not trying to be cruel@Rmalcolmti (60)
• United States
30 Dec 10
Yea it was funny to see that happen i think it was getting harassed by the shark that was in the tank.
@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
30 Dec 10
I don't have a sucker fish, but I have watched my sister's sucker fish swim rather quickly and energetically...maybe your fish accident swam to hard and jumped out of the tank by mistake. Does the tank have a lid?
I've only had Beta fish, but none of them have ever gotten out of the tank.
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
30 Dec 10
I have bettas too...love them...the tank doesn't have a lid on it as I haven't made anything for it....I think you could be right about the swimming too fast bit.
@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Oh, I have to have lids on my betta tanks or my cats would eat my fish! lol
Betta's are so cool! I love having them. I've had up to 4 at once, now I just have one. I buy the bettas that are less colorful and 'attractive' because I figure those are the ones no one else will buy lol. So right now I have a black or dark grey one that I've named, Jrakeo. lol
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
1 Jan 11
I had never thought of this...maybe I will habe to keep an eye on the goldfish & aquatic snails....
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Oh! Poor little fish.
I don't have fish, but only
cause I have four indoor and three
outdoor cats and they would have a quick
snack of my fish.
Is it possible that he was leaping
toward a light source?
I'm not sure why fish do the things they do.
Fish are a mystery to me.
Cats are another story.
Whenever my cats act up and zip around the house
like maniacs, I know what they are saying.
"Mommy! Clean my litter box!"
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
1 Jan 11
I'm not sure as it was fairly dark...he was heading for the fridge - he could have been hungry maybe..The cats I grew up with also did things like that when we were in for bad weather too.
@angeloglasser (134)
• United States
30 Dec 10
I use to have a Gold Fish who would do that all the time, not quite sure why but every time my tank lid was open if he had a chance where your back was turned he would jump out. This went on for quite some time until he finally got sick due to unrelated circumstances in the tank he was in and he along with several other fish passed away.
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
30 Dec 10
Maybe the goldfish knew that the illness was going around & didn't want to get sick lol...that is sad though.
@sam3m1 (190)
• United States
30 Dec 10
it sounds as if the fish was depressed. did he leave a note?
@moonchild1au (6240)
• Australia
1 Jan 11
Unfortunately he didn't leave a note as I had made my daughter clean up her crayons & paper earlier.
