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Ricky92
05/13/2009, 06:34 PM
anyone ever tought their fish tricks? post pics too.
Joe-ness
05/13/2009, 08:28 PM
Didn't the mythbuster guys "teach" goldfish to go through red hoops to get food...or something like that...?
DamnPepShrimp
05/13/2009, 09:17 PM
I've heard stories of triggers/puffers ringing bells to get fed. Someone would put a chain in the tank and the fish learned to pull on it, ringing a bell and would be fed. Don't know if it's true or not, but if I know my triggers/puffers, that bell would be long gone from all the ringing!
hawkey992
05/13/2009, 09:17 PM
yea, it's been done, just standard conditioning, any animal can do it, even those without brains. I think it's kinda pointless on fish, just doesn't seem natural IMO.
sacremon
05/14/2009, 08:08 AM
Yep, just conditioning. When I first got my lion, he was only 2.5". I used a feeding stick made of an acrylic tube with clear fishing line down it. I would stick the food on the line and wiggle it for him. These days I feed him by hand, in the sense that I hold the food just under the water and he inhales it. But if I want him to come out of his cave, or to move over to the other side of the tank so I can do some maintenance around his cave, all I have to do is take out the feeding stick and wave it around. He's out and around in a second and will go wherever that stick is.
EnderG60
05/14/2009, 10:11 AM
We didnt teach it to them, but when I worded at a LFS we had a few triggers(large ones) that would spit water on you when they wanted food.

That was very entertaining :)
Grunt
05/14/2009, 12:17 PM
I have mandarins that eat out of pipettes :D Basic conditioning...
Ricky92
05/14/2009, 02:21 PM
thats cool especially the bell thing but has anyone personally thaght their fish anything more challenging? im just curious, but i think i want to try it.
KDDG
05/14/2009, 06:46 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15009819#post15009819 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EnderG60
We didnt teach it to them, but when I worded at a LFS we had a few triggers(large ones) that would spit water on you when they wanted food.

That was very entertaining :)

We had a Niger Trigger that did the same thing! Every time we opened the canopy, we got wet. :lol: