In the wild jumping just seems like a good way to make birds notice you. I know bettas jump because of how they live in the wild, but that doesn't explain the rest of the non labyrinth fish.
Why Do Fish Jump?
- Thread starter Impudence12
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Some wild fish jump as they swim upstream. Guppies have been seen jumping toward water coming out of a tank filter.
If you read a few of the marine/reef threads it becomes even more puzzling when you see that most of those tanks are left uncovered yet the fish seldom jump.
I read once that marine fish go down (into the reef?) for shelter from predators and freshwater fish jump to avoid predators from below.
Open ocean marines jump since there predators come from below (watch baitfish jump to get away from a school of bluefish).
I don't know if this helps but maybe that is their natural flee response.
Charlie
I read once that marine fish go down (into the reef?) for shelter from predators and freshwater fish jump to avoid predators from below.
Open ocean marines jump since there predators come from below (watch baitfish jump to get away from a school of bluefish).
I don't know if this helps but maybe that is their natural flee response.
Charlie
lol!
good lord, forgive me with this one off topic post, but that av is hilarious to me. i'm a total cat person. must be photoshopped though?
also some of the larger fish jump for food even some smaller ones will just for little bugs just off the surface of the water. Larger fish lik arowanas jump out of the water to get bugs and little birds on the lower branches of the trees
Jumping is fun! Truly it is. If you have a trampoline you already know. If you don't go into your bedroom and start jumping on the bed... now that we are adults there is no one to yell at us to stop!
I'm just teasing of course, but just thinking about made me smile.
I'm just teasing of course, but just thinking about made me smile.
i'm checking both legs to see which one is being pulled! what cat would allow that? lol