yea a lot of fish do it......i've only seen my clown knife and some of my cichlids do it but i have seen pictures of aros doing it too.................never heard anything about it having to do with high nitrates..........
I have seen my red spot sunfish (north american native) that i keep in a 40 gal heavily planted tank yawn several times, I keep duck weed covering the tank. The back and one side are covered in algae, i read 0 nitrates, 0 ammonia, and 0 nitrites.