Trying to spit water at me

[Aquaph8]

[video=youtube_share;nccCpYuiqcc]http://youtu.be/nccCpYuiqcc[/video]

 

[lionfish5740]

I used to have a large bird wrasse do that every time I walked by my tank!! It taught my decent sized lionfish to do it which became a real mess LOL

 

[Aquaph8]

I used to have a large bird wrasse do that every time I walked by my tank!! It taught my decent sized lionfish to do it which became a real mess LOL

I've heard of triggers doing it but was surprised when the butterfly started doing it.

 

[tyler1503]

My valentini puffer would do this :)
I use to balance a chunky piece of food on my finger tip just above the waterline trying to teach him to blow water on it to get it. Sort of like putting a crab in a glass jar for an octopus I suppose :)
He didn't learn it, but he tried his best!

 

[lionfish5740]

I've not heard of any butterfly doing it either Brett. Hopefully you don't have carpet or something there that would get damaged from the behavior.

That is a neat idea Tyler to train the puffer like that! Reminds me of the Archerfish from the amazon river that spits bugs off of branches to eat. Wish I would have thought about that with my old bird wrasse!

 

[c_healy]

My one spot fox face would do it when I was nesr thr tank.

He would also come up to the top and roll on his side to get a good scratchin'

Have never had a fish with as much personality as him.

 

[seasaltedinsrq]

THAT'S funny! I have a melanarus wrasse in my frag system. He'll come over to where I'm at swimming all cool, looking for food. IF I ignore him, he spits water at me..."FISH!":laugh:

 

[C4!]

I've heard of triggers doing it but was surprised when the butterfly started doing it.

I had a pair of triggers that would both shoot water out of the tank at me if I walked by and they hadn't been fed atleast twice already that day.

Beautiful fish BTW. It doesn't quite look like a CBB, is it the muelleri??

 

[ritter6788]

Rogue fish! Get him out now. Bag him up and I'll PM my address. :)

 

[Aquaph8]

Haha Gabe, too late he's in the display, too hard to catch now.

C4, yes he's a muelleri. So much hardier IMO, didn't take any abuse from my tangs at all.

 

[saltyhog]

I want a muelleri but I never see them offered on LA/DD, at least not in the last year or so.

 

[Aquaph8]

They've had like 3 in the last couple months or so. They're also on the wholesale list at my LFS.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Great video and awesome fish!! My fuzzy dwarf lionfish used to do that.

 

[Aquaph8]

Thanks Krista.