Happy Valentine’s Day from Fish Navy Films!
In the spirit of the celebration of love, we bring you kissing fish.
Photo credit http://www.allesoverhetaquarium.nl
The kissing gourami (Helostoma temminckii) can be found from Thailand to Indonesia. As well as being a popular aquarium fish, they are often farmed for food in Southeast Asia.
Fun fact: Kissing fish pucker up not to show love but to make war! Kissers of both sexes use their kissing mouths for sparring. Even though they rarely kill each other this way, constant bullying can make a kissing fish die of stress. Watch below as two kissing fish do battle!
the Music…..is a bit over-powering. I think there are better choices; lighter and with some humor. Thse fish behave like sparring mountain goats, where the issue is dominance, not death. Nice footage!
WOW!! I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE KISSING OUT OF LOVE…LOL
Ha ha, so did we! Perhaps they’re just lovers spats?