家里养鱼还是乐趣很多...

家里养鱼还是乐趣很多的，只不过要被家里的这群小鱼仔给蠢死了。

家里的鱼养了快一个月了，也陆陆续续死了几条。

但是请大家来听一下我家鱼是怎么死的，感觉跟这个环境其实没多大关系。

第一种死法是越狱自杀式行为。

三条米奇鱼因从鱼缸过滤器的雨林式喷水口跳出缸外死亡。刚入缸的前三天，每天白天趁家中无人，会有一条米奇鱼从该喷水口跳出，或掉落在瓷砖上，或跳到隐秘处，因武汉温度高，发现时已死亡。后续用小盖子盖住该区域后，便再无鱼跳缸死亡。虽有人认为鱼跳缸可能因缺氧，但鱼缸内水草茂盛且叶片有大量氧气气泡，不存在缺氧情况。

第二种死法是被投喂圈缝隙夹死。

两条鱼因钻入投喂圈与鱼缸壁的间隙被夹死。家中安装的投喂圈靠吸盘固定在缸壁，背后与鱼缸间有5毫米间隙。部分小鱼吃饲料时不从正常入口进入，反而从背面硬钻，体型小的鱼被及时发现可救出，而肚子较大的鱼被夹后未被及时发现，夹一天后死亡。

第三种死法是被水草固定环夹住死亡。

一条鱼因钻入水草固定环被夹死。水草通过水草环固定，有一条鱼可能因饲料飘到固定环下，一个劲往环里钻，最终半个身子夹在环内，半个身子露在外面，出不来也进不去，导致死亡。

然后我们昨天在鱼缸的另外一侧又加了一个投放饲料的，因为之前觉得就那一个投放饲料的小地方，每次吃饲料的时候鱼经常会挤成一团，嫌它们太拥挤了，就一左一右放了两个投放饲料的地方。

结果昨天我和儿子两个人同时在两个圈圈里面投放饲料。

就发现大部分的鱼还挺好的，选择了一边的饲料机就赶紧在里面吃食。

结果有一只体型最大的斑马鱼太傻了，把我和儿子看的笑死。

它就在鱼缸里面反复地左游右游，游到快到左边的饲料机时，发现里面挤满了鱼，它又折返到右边的饲料机，又看看那边，好像那边也有很多鱼，它就又游回左边去。

就这样反复游了十几二十趟，硬是一口饲料都没有吃到。

这个小伙子看来有选择恐惧症呐，把我和儿子在鱼缸外面看得狂笑不止，这鱼真是要把我笑死了。

Keeping fish at home is really fun, but these little fish are driving me crazy with their stupidity.

We’ve had the fish for almost a month now, and a few have died one after another.

But let me tell you how they died—it really doesn’t seem to have much to do with their environment.

The first way they died was "jailbreaking"—a suicidal escape. Three Mickey fish died from jumping out of the tank through the rain-style water outlet of the filter. In the first three days after they were put in the tank, one Mickey fish would jump out every day when no one was home during the day. By the time we got back from work or the elders came home in the afternoon, they’d already be lying motionless on the tiles. Sometimes they’d jump into a hidden spot, and with Wuhan’s high temperatures, by the time we found them at night, they’d dried up into little fish jerky. Later, we wised up and covered that side with a small lid, and no more fish died from escaping after that. Some people say fish jump out of tanks because of a lack of oxygen, but that can’t be the case here. We have three water plants in the tank that are growing like crazy—two of them have even been pruned twice, they’re so lush they’re almost taking over the whole tank. Every leaf is covered in tiny oxygen bubbles, so there’s no way the tank is short on oxygen.

The second way was getting crushed in the gap of the feeding ring. Two fish died after getting stuck in the space between the feeding ring and the tank wall. We installed two feeding rings—clear acrylic ones with suction cups to stick to the tank wall. You drop food in from the top, and it floats on the surface for a while before slowly sinking to the lower part of the ring, which stops the food from floating all over the tank. It’s a handy little gadget, but it has a flaw: the suction cups leave a roughly 5mm gap between the back of the ring and the tank wall. And these little fish are so dumb—when they’re eating, instead of going in through the front, they insist on squeezing through that gap at the back. We often find small fish stuck in that 5mm space. If we catch it in time, we can rescue them, but sometimes a bigger, plumper fish gets stuck and isn’t found in time. After being trapped all day, it dies. That’s how two fish met their end.

The third death was even funnier. We use three plant rings to hold the water plants in place. One fish, for some reason—maybe it smelled food, or maybe some food drifted under the ring—kept trying to squeeze into the plant ring. By the time I found it, half its body was stuck inside the ring, the other half (including its tail) hanging out. It was trapped—couldn’t get in or out—and died just like that.

Then, just yesterday, we added another feeding spot on the other side of the tank. The original one was so crowded during feeding time, so we put two, one on each side, to spread them out.

Yesterday, my son and I fed them at both rings at the same time.

Most of the fish were smart—they picked one ring and started eating right away.

But there was this one big zebra fish that was so stupid, it had my son and me in stitches.

It swam back and forth between the two rings: when it got close to the left one, it saw it was crowded, so it turned around and swam to the right. Then it saw the right one was crowded too, so it swam back to the left.

It did this back-and-forth dance a dozen or twenty times, and didn’t get a single bite to eat.

This little guy must have choice anxiety! My son and I were laughing our heads off watching it from outside the tank—these fish are really going to be the death of me!

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