Do you love your fishes?

[Neonblack]

Like say, a cat or a dog? I do. They are members of my family and enrich my life soooo much!

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Not as much as my dogs. It's not the same bond, at least not to me. Some of it has to do with Oxytocin, a love hormone mostly achieved by touching. Can't touch/pet fishes same way one can with dogs and cats.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/oxytocin

 

[Dmorty217]

I think this will be a universal yes, not like a dog though it's a different relationship

 

[ca1ore]

Nope. I appreciate them, and attempt to care for them as well as I can; but I tend to think of my tank more as 'decoration' than pets. I also don't anthropomorphize them (nor my dog).

Did you have to look that one up? :lol:

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I also don't anthropomorphize them (nor my dog).

Did you have to look that one up? :lol:

Nope. Lol

 

[ca1ore]

Nope. Lol

:thumbsup: one of my favorite words.

 

[ThRoewer]

Like say, a cat or a dog? I do. They are members of my family and enrich my life soooo much!

Yes, I love my fish - some more, some less, it depends a bit on their personality.
Don't have a cat or a dog as I really don't like furry animals. The issue with dogs is also that they don't live very long (any clownfish has the potential to outlive them at least twice)

 

[Kairus]

No. My female clownfish tries to bite me, I hate her (j/k). I don't think I could love my fish like I do my bird, the bird and I have a bond that the fish can never replicate.

I've felt bad when I've sold fish that I've had for a while though.

 

[snorvich]

I love my wife. Then my dogs. I enjoy my fish.

 

[humaguy]

Love my dog more, a much closer bond...but, every once in a while, you get a fish, maybe keep it for a very long time, and can form a truly close bond...had that with my Cortez of 14 years, blueface of 13 years, my Outrigger and some other trigs..,but the lack of tactile closeness, imho, will always keep our relationships with our fish secondary/tertiary......

 

[Jrambo88]

No, but if I lose a fish I'm dissapointed because if they died prematurely I feel like I failed. I don't like failure. I do not have an emotional attachment to them like my dogs. My one dog is my right hand girl. She changed my life, my fish has not. Lol

 

[ginpang]

The bond with the parrots is like parent -children, the bond with the dog is more one of friendship and the fishies they make me curious ,and inquisitive . I'd say the bond with the fish is one of knowledge through observation more than anything. But I do like some more than others based on their personality and/or on interesting behaviour.

I used to breed chameleons and frogs ... The bond wiTh them was similar to the fish's . Probably because they don't like to cuddle like cats/dogs...


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[Scythanith]

I legitimately grieve if I lose a fish. So yes, I love my fish.

 

[SALTYwaterDOG]

When I lose a fish I'm mot sure if I grieve for the fish or the cash

 

[Nina51]

i adore my fish, i'm not sure i love them. i love my dogs. when fish can spoon with me, i'll prolly love them but so far, i haven't found a fish that big or one that big that can live out of water.

does that ^ make any sense whatsoEVER?? LOL

 

[Flippers4pups]

This happens all the time..... Clowns and yellow wrasse will follow me around the tank and look at me very closely. Clowns will eat out of my hands and the wrasse will hover in one spot and stare at me. Connection is there between them and me, but it's most likely like "pavlov's dog". Love, no.

 

[d-man]

Nope. As stated above. I appreciate them and truly enjoy them, but not least love.

 

[bat21]

Absolutely yes. I love my cat too. But I am sure she is as indifferent towards me as my fish are. I feel terrible when I lose a fish. I still feel bad whenever I think about my Damsel that I took back to the store bc he was being aggressive. I gave him a safe home and then took it away. These guys may not feel happiness and love, but they feel comfort and fear.

I am actually looking forward to years down the road when I get a huge tank and have like a dozen of every kind of fish so I can't get so attached to singular ones.

My wife is ten times worse than I am though. We've now had several fish for over a year, and she will absolutely cry if we lose one of them. As someone mentioned above there is the feeling of it being your fault when one dies. So it's like letting them down (and my wife!)

 

[juniorrocketdad]

I don't think I love my fish as much as my dog but I have serious attachments to any of my marine life, I had an emerald crab that killed an orange diamond back goby and a pair of frostbite clowns so I put him in my dads fish only, even after that I was pretty depressed because I feel like once I take him home it's my responsibility to give him a happy life and if he causes havoc than j have to work around it if that makes sense

 

[OrionN]

I love my fish as much as I love my dog. However, I don't love my coral or anemone. I care for them and provide for all they needed I don't have the emotional attachment to them like I do to fish and other vertebrates.