behaviors you enjoy (or learned to enjoy)

[clownbaby]

What behaviors of your fish, shrimp, or snails did you think you wouldn't like but actually adore? Or, what behaviors did you overtime start to love, even though you disliked it at first? 

Mine has to be when any of my fish -- especially my otocinclus and pygmy cories, the secretive guys -- weave through plants. Seeing them interact with their environment is genuinely amazing in a way that I cannot easily describe.

Bonus answer: my mystery snail, Leroy, has a fondness for redecorating my epiphytic plants... since I didn't use glue or string, he would somehow always manage to get my anubias out from wherever I wedged it. At first it made me so mad, but then once I saw him nudging the rhizome out of place with his mouth, I was just impressed by his dedication! But I didn't want him to end up killing my plants by distrupting them so much, so then I moved all my anubias and java fern to my 5 gallon so he will stop harassing them! (For some reason, he doesn't uproot stem plant cuttings... he just hates epiphytes!)

[Airborne 82nd]

My Oscar bumps the lid hard if I'm late feeding him. I don't know who is training who.

edit You want to worry about plants get a Oscar this guy could move the funiture if he could live outside the tank

Edited Friday at 10:05 PM by Airborne 82nd

[Beach Cruiser]

"Aggression", sort of.

The Apisto M in my tank (all males) have big territory disputes where they get all aggro & puffy, strutting around in full color. They rarely get into anything actually physical & the big brother of the bunch will put him self between the combatants to remind them who really rules the roost. They've got a whole wiggle & shimmy body/fins dance thing going on. It's pretty cool to watch...

[Mississippi fish guy]

My red wolf fish spends most of the day in his driftwood hideout but sometimes at night I see the heater light come on and he is patrolling the surface. Once I also found him resting on a mat of plants on the surface.

[Tanked]

My Bloodfin Tetras play tag with the SAEs.  It's not aggression, they take turns, often waiting for the other fish to catch up.