DurocShark
Active Member
Ok, not really.
I got a new phone last week. A Samsung S7 Edge in silver. I love the phone (though I miss the WP interface of the Lumias, the 950 was just a heap of steaming detritus) and thought I'd try it out taking a pic of my white clownfish.
I brought the phone up to the 17g open top rimless tank. My clown got really skittish as soon as I got close to the tank. I thought that was strange, and without putting my phone down started looking around the tank to see what startled it. It really freaked out then and jumped. I found it on the floor of my closet! (Why does my white with orange bits fish turn dull gray when on the carpet? Hard to find...) I scooped it up and put it back in the tank. I still had my phone in my hand. It immediately jumped again. Wha...? This time I set the phone down and found it behind the stand. Back in the tank. This time it was stressed, but more mellow than it was. At least it wasn't flying from side to side like it was.
Then it hit me. That poor fish thought the shiny silver (almost chrome) phone was a predator! It was just trying to avoid being someone's dinner!
I guess I won't be doing any tank pics with this phone until I get a dark case for it...
Oh, and the fish? This happened Sunday evening. It's happy as can be now. Eating, swimming around, seemingly none the worse for wear. Whew.
I got a new phone last week. A Samsung S7 Edge in silver. I love the phone (though I miss the WP interface of the Lumias, the 950 was just a heap of steaming detritus) and thought I'd try it out taking a pic of my white clownfish.
I brought the phone up to the 17g open top rimless tank. My clown got really skittish as soon as I got close to the tank. I thought that was strange, and without putting my phone down started looking around the tank to see what startled it. It really freaked out then and jumped. I found it on the floor of my closet! (Why does my white with orange bits fish turn dull gray when on the carpet? Hard to find...) I scooped it up and put it back in the tank. I still had my phone in my hand. It immediately jumped again. Wha...? This time I set the phone down and found it behind the stand. Back in the tank. This time it was stressed, but more mellow than it was. At least it wasn't flying from side to side like it was.
Then it hit me. That poor fish thought the shiny silver (almost chrome) phone was a predator! It was just trying to avoid being someone's dinner!
I guess I won't be doing any tank pics with this phone until I get a dark case for it...
Oh, and the fish? This happened Sunday evening. It's happy as can be now. Eating, swimming around, seemingly none the worse for wear. Whew.
