Do fish go to sleep?

[desperatehousewife]

Completely ridiculous question but do they every sleep? Keep creeping in to see if I can catch them asleep but they always seem to be swimming around....how exhausting is that?

[Enid]

yes

I have seen them sleeping on the bottom of the ocean when diving at night

[Enid]

well the bottome of the reef (not the actual bottom of the sea)

[Blandmum]

Yes, but not in the same way as we do, and lacking eye lids, they can't close their eyes.

Some people call what they do 'rest'

[Enid]

they sort of stop and drift gently back and forward n the current

very sweet

[Blandmum]

Enid, how do you swim in your puritan gear???

[Enid]

\link{http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2003-11-15.gif\one of the benefits of not having eyelids}

[4blue1pink]

dh vet he says yes but i dont belive him

[desperatehousewife]

not much current in our fish tank...and not so much a reef, rather a bit of gravel. ok I can go to bed happily knowing that my fish are getting their rest. Thank you!

[Enid]

I tuck it into my wetsuit

[Blandmum]

and the wimple???

[Enid]

hidden underneath dry suit hood

in the tropics I leave it on the beach with my modesty