if i put head-phones around my fish's tank, and play music as loud as it will go, can my fish hear it?
2007-07-18 03:54:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Yeah they'll hear it and probably get stressed out. You may be a prodigy in math, but this is basic biology here. Fish don't have ears like you and I do, so they are rather sensative towards sound. Some fish do not have eyes in the massive depths of the oceans so over the years, fish almost have developed a sonar sense like bats. This is why you'll see many fish dart and hide, or come to the glass when you enter a house, becasue they are very sensative towards sound waves, they can easily sense them. Blasting your music is not going to help them and most likely going to cause them to live in a stressed state. It's not a good thing to think of them in terms of humanistic traits. They wouldn't understand the words or rythms anyways, but the noise is liable to over stress them.
JV
2007-07-18 04:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by I am Legend 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, my first suggestion would be to get at least a 20 gallon tank if you can afford it. A 10 gallon tank is very limiting in terms of what fish you can keep in it, and it's more difficult to maintain than a larger tank because the water quality can change faster. Most of the fish you see in pet stores are too big to keep in a 10 gallon tank if you buy them in the recommended numbers for proper school size. Don't ask me why, but many pet stores don't carry aquariums larger than 55 gallons, yet they sell fish that would require a larger aquarium than that. Almost every store I've seen carries oscars which need a minimum of 75 gallons. Anyway, if you have your heart set on a 10 gallon tank, pay attention to catx, especially her article about stocking a 10 gallon tank. She knows what she's talking about. Above all, don't even think about putting goldfish in a tank that small. Those "cute little goldfish" you see in stores will be a foot long as adults and need 20 gallons of water per fish.
2016-05-21 18:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, they will feel the vibrations and if you turn the volume all the way up, your fish could very well die.
that will extremely stress them out. when fish are stressed, they are more likely to get ill, and die prematurely.
this is a very, very bad idea.
2007-07-18 05:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by Kerri 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ya they can Ive done it i turned on some music and it was really weird they were just swimming around like normal before i turned on the music and then when i turned on my music my pleco that usually just sits there was swimming back and forth as if it was dancing and doing it right to the beat of the song and same with 2 of my cichlids and then my gourami was jumping alot and my red tailed shark was just going crazy swimming all over the tank and my other cichlid was just going crazy sacking into the side of the camp
2007-07-18 06:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by tkerbag 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Bad idea,cruel idea,lacking in a basic understanding in Physics and Biology.
2007-07-18 04:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It will definately feel the vibrations. It will stress him out, dont do it.
2007-07-18 04:02:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the first post is right, it will stress them out.
2007-07-18 04:12:36 · answer #7 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋