Anyones inhabitants acting "off" yet from eclipse?

[Üter]

Would be interesting to know if anyones having different tank behaviors due to the eclipse?

thought it was odd when I came downstairs this morning and the octopus was out crawling around. normally she is napping at by light. she only went to snooze when I took out the phone to try and get a pic. She ate well last night (2 oysters) and watched TV with us. wondering if the eclipse cycle is throwing inhabitants off today?

 

[topjimmy]

How would they even know, unless your tank is outside

 

[Üter]

How would they even know, unless your tank is outside

lots of animals act strange to astro events without seeing it. there are indeed changes.

 

[Tonycass12]

It's well documented that although some animals will act different during an eclipse, it tends to be limited to the animals in the area of totality where it becomes dark enough that nocturnal animals come out and others start evening rituals. It's not something that will effect animals outside of that area.

 

[Üter]

It's well documented that although some animals will act different during an eclipse, it tends to be limited to the animals in the area of totality where it becomes dark enough that nocturnal animals come out and others start evening rituals. It's not something that will effect animals outside of that area.

I'll be outside since we are in the area but have a camera on the tank.

 

[Tonycass12]

lots of animals act strange to astro events without seeing it. there are indeed changes.

correlation doesn't equal causation...

 

[Üter]

Like I said she is hanging out of hiding today. This can’t be a coincidence.

 

[QuickrdenU]

If the parasites in your gut know when it’s a full moon, it’s not a stretch for this to be a possibility.

 

[Katrina71]

I have an rfa that looks like it's going to spawn.

 

[Dburr1014]

How would they even know, unless your tank is outside

Lunar pulls and sun pulls.
Many animals are effected by things not seen but felt.

 

[VintageReefer]

This can’t be a coincidence.

Why not?

 

[doubleshot00]

Make sure you adjust your lights when the eclipse happens.

 

[VintageReefer]

Lunar pulls and sun pulls.
Many animals are effected by things not seen but felt.

That affects tides in the ocean, and changes in current can affect ocean inhabitants behavior

An eclipse does not cause any impact on this, and, even if it did, would not affect an aquarium. Our aquariums have no tides to be affected by these pulls.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I doubt indoors if there will be any effect as the light cycle in the tank will not change however it has been said, animals outdoors will become quiet, crickets will be chirping at their loudest and winds will become still until the eclipse passes

 

[Dburr1014]

That affects tides in the ocean, and changes in current can affect ocean inhabitants behavior

An eclipse does not cause any impact on this, and, even if it did, would not affect an aquarium. Our aquariums have no tides to be affected by these pulls.

Yes tides change from the pulls.
I still feel animals also feel some pulls too.
Having said that, I don't think that the fact that the sun is blocked out will have an effect on animals in our tanks.

 

[VintageReefer]

Yes tides change from the pulls.
I still feel animals also feel some pulls too.
Having said that, I don't think that the fact that the sun is blocked out will have an effect on animals in our tanks.

If animals can feel pulls, why can’t people? This is not a spiritual or 6th sense thing, the pulls from the moons effect on gravity are extremely small, it affects the tides due to the VAST amount of area they cover on the earth. There is no effect on tiny creatures and people. That is why the moon can cause ocean waves to rise and fall, yet a person can stand nearby and feel nothing.

It’s a tiny amount of pull that needs thousands of miles of ocean to be affected, things on a planetary scale type of size. a person, a deer, whatever, can not feel this. And if you think animals can, then why can’t people?

 

[GlassMunky]

If animals can feel pulls, why can’t people?

while I agree with everything else you wrote on the pull not effecting animals or us, this reasoning is way off.

There’s countless things that animals can feel that we as humans cannot because they have different sensory organs than we do.
Sharks for example have their ampullae of lorenzini that can detect small amounts of electrical energy, like the heartbeat of another animal.
We don’t have those. Does that mean they can’t actually feel it.


Again, this logic is just flawed

Animals and humans are different and therefor experience and perceive things differently

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Just for fun on a natural-phenomenon-and-aquatic-life-related note:

1 - Solar eclipses have known effects on water properties and seawater, so it may be possible for our fish to know something is happening with the eclipse (though there's no guarantee unless the tank is exposed to sunlight, as I haven't found research on the matter with regards to aquariums not exposed to the sun).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-019-09529-0https://www.scirp.org/html/3745.html2 - Catfish have been demonstrated to be able to predict earthquakes with up to 80% accuracy about 6 hours prior to the quake:

"The experimenters think that the catfish are made sensitive through electrical changes in the earth, since it was only when the aquarium was electrically earthed, through the drain-pipe, that they responded to a coming earthquake."
https://www.nature.com/articles/132817b03 - Leeches have been used for their ability to sense atmospheric changes as a barometer to predict coming storms and their severity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator
Edit: Forgot point 4 - some people report their aquarium fish reacting to storms despite being inside and unable to see the storms coming.

 

[topjimmy]

lots of animals act strange to astro events without seeing it. there are indeed changes.

The only thing happening is the moon blocking the sun. It purely visual.

 

[Doctorgori]

yeah, my tang asked for a purple shroud and a pair on Nikes