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How intelligent are fish?

 
I love jawfish @zozo they are some of the most entertaining fish there are. We used to keep them with seahorses because they are generally peaceful. They build fantastic tunnels and I loved how they had a big shell or rock near the entrance to block it up at night when they went to bed (occassionally they'd use a snail or hermit crab and look a bit puzzled when their door wandered off). Sometimes you'd get a bit of squabbling when they stole each others burrows.
 
mort said:
I love jawfish @zozo they are some of the most entertaining fish there are. We used to keep them with seahorses because they are generally peaceful. They build fantastic tunnels and I loved how they had a big shell or rock near the entrance to block it up at night when they went to bed (occassionally they'd use a snail or hermit crab and look a bit puzzled when their door wandered off). Sometimes you'd get a bit of squabbling when they stole each others burrows.
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This is the first time I see them on video and I don't know what is going on but it's hilarious. Obviously, it looks like they are in a who spits the most sand dispute or something. Over territory maybe? Domestic quarrel? If they were mine I would definitively have named them Waldorf and Mortimer...

Beautifully ugly and seem to have a personality as well. I guess all fish have if we are willing to see it, even pond snails can be hand fed and recognize the hand that feeds them, but this is different... :thumbup:
 
zozo said:
This is the first time I see them on video and I don't know what is going on but it's hilarious. Obviously, it looks like they are in a who spits the most sand dispute or something. Over territory maybe? Domestic quarrel?
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Likely a little bit of territorial squabbling. Some species live in colonies and others are quite solitary. This isn't a species that isn't in the aquarium trade as far as I know but it shares many characteristics with the larger more antisocial jawfish.
 
zozo said:
This is the first time I see them on video and I don't know what is going on but it's hilarious. Obviously, it looks like they are in a who spits the most sand dispute or something. Over territory maybe? Domestic quarrel? If they were mine I would definitively have named them Waldorf and Mortimer...

Beautifully ugly and seem to have a personality as well. I guess all fish have if we are willing to see it, even pond snails can be hand fed and recognize the hand that feeds them, but this is different... :thumbup:
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You got ur pond snails to recognise you!!!!🐌

Man…..that takes some commitment!……or waaaay too much time on your hands. 😂👍
 
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