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?

yes

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

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

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'

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

very sweet

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

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

dh vet he says yes but i dont belive him

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!

I tuck it into my wetsuit

and the wimple???

hidden underneath dry suit hood

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