Curiosity: does loud music effect fish?

Germ42 · Oct 15, 2016

So I have a 60g anemone cube with plenty of fish, I use it to let the smaller fish grow and then they'll go in my DT. However, my lovely sound system is also in that room (the room is my man cave lol) I love to blare music in there from time and I seriously don't want it to stress or cause any issues. However I'm also curious as to if fish might likely music lol anyone ever notice any kind of reaction to playing music at a normal level or loud level?
Thanks in advance for any input!

cloak · Oct 15, 2016

I would think the vibration from the bass would be no different than someone banging on the glass, but I could be wrong. Whether or not this is detrimental to the tanks inhabitants I don't know. I'm sure there's a little bit of stress involved though.

MCooper · Oct 15, 2016

I agree with Cloak

Bdog4u2 · Oct 15, 2016

Cannot be much worse than some of the loud equipment that we put in our tanks and waves in Ocean are very loud I would only worry about heavy bass as I have speakers a few feet away from my tank and they don't even hide and also will eat when I feed them or they just like Bob Marley

rayn · Oct 15, 2016

Along the same lines, but my music room is right outside my tanks. Between guitars and drums I worried about the same thing, but was told it isn't a issue.

I would think complete music songs wouldn't hurt either.

Zero Nitrates · Oct 15, 2016

Check this out!

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/

Germ42 · Oct 15, 2016

Zero Nitrates said:
Check this out!

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/

Now that's neat! Maybe they love the music hahaha

Germ42 · Oct 15, 2016

Bdog4u2 said:
Cannot be much worse than some of the loud equipment that we put in our tanks and waves in Ocean are very loud I would only worry about heavy bass as I have speakers a few feet away from my tank and they don't even hide and also will eat when I feed them or they just like Bob Marley

Lol well then my fish should be fine, i like Bob Marley as well lol!

jasonrusso · Oct 15, 2016

I say yes. They get used to the constant sounds, but they pick up on the sudden noises.

Germ42 · Oct 16, 2016

That's cool I will continue to monitor the fish as I jam, my thought was always if you have a loud speaker out side of your pool, and you go under water, you can't really hear it much underwater lol unless the music is playing under water

jasonrusso · Oct 16, 2016

Germ42 said:
That's cool I will continue to monitor the fish as I jam, my thought was always if you have a loud speaker out side of your pool, and you go under water, you can't really hear it much underwater lol unless the music is playing under water

This is true, but fish don't have ears. They use their lateral line to pick up on changes in the environment. I'm sure that a loud bass thump will spook them the same way banging on the glass would.