never teach your fish to jump for food

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fishnutham

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I thought it would be kool to teach my Oscar to leap for his food 'at first it worked and was easy to do but now the problem is he gets extemly excited when i walk past the tank and he bops his noodle into the top of the tank every time.

i'll be on the cpu and i hear a huge splash and a bang time to feed him again
so now i risk getting my fingers getting latched onto and him scratching himself on the tanks edge
he manages to get about a 1/2 of his body through the naror front openig everytime
I guess i should have never showed him that seaworld clip of the dolphins feeding :D



crazy fish :screwy:
 
fishnutham said:
I thought it would be kool to teach my Oscar to leap for his food 'at first it worked and was easy to do but now the problem is he gets extemly excited when i walk past the tank and he bops his noodle into the top of the tank every time.

i'll be on the cpu and i hear a huge splash and a bang time to feed him again
so now i risk getting my fingers latched onto and him scratching himself on the tanks edge
he manages to get about a 1/2 of his body through the naror front openig everytime
I guess i should have never showed him that seaworld clip of the dolphins feeding :D



crazy fish :screwy:
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I somewhat agree. Back in the day, i had an all oscar tank and i used to teach them how to jump for krill. It got to the point where you have to throw the food real quick or youll either get splashed, or your fingernails scraped or worse , your thumb bit.

On a positive note, feeding time were always action packed. :D
 
fishnutham said:
I thought it would be kool to teach my Oscar to leap for his food 'at first it worked and was easy to do but now the problem is he gets extemly excited when i walk past the tank and he bops his noodle into the top of the tank every time.

i'll be on the cpu and i hear a huge splash and a bang time to feed him again
so now i risk getting my fingers getting latched onto and him scratching himself on the tanks edge
he manages to get about a 1/2 of his body through the naror front openig everytime
I guess i should have never showed him that seaworld clip of the dolphins feeding :D



crazy fish :screwy:
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My oscars do the same thing. I can't open the lid the whole way to feed them anymore or they will jump out. :)
 
fishnutham said:
i'm working on a video clip anyone whos never seen a oscar get worked up will enjoy it i'm sure
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Be careful with that, my oscar jumped out of the tank one night and I wasn't around to save the little guy ... poor thing, wish we never taught him to jump for food.
 
Yah i would be carefull that he doesnt jump out. My bf bro has an oscar and he taught her to jump up to ring a bell thats over the tank for food, he rung the bell and fed her food and eventually she caught on so she would ring the bell when she was hungry and that requires her to jump and one night she just jumped out of the tank =( but my bf saved her so she still alive!
 
Ash said:
Yah i would be carefull that he doesnt jump out. My bf bro has an oscar and he taught her to jump up to ring a bell thats over the tank for food, he rung the bell and fed her food and eventually she caught on so she would ring the bell when she was hungry and that requires her to jump and one night she just jumped out of the tank =( but my bf saved her so she still alive!
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dat's cute! so how often does she ring the bell? :D
 
Ash said:
Yah i would be carefull that he doesnt jump out. My bf bro has an oscar and he taught her to jump up to ring a bell thats over the tank for food, he rung the bell and fed her food and eventually she caught on so she would ring the bell when she was hungry and that requires her to jump and one night she just jumped out of the tank =( but my bf saved her so she still alive!
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thats awesome
 
my 2 oscars taught themselves to jump out of the water when i feed them chunks of salmon and perch but now my 16" rtc will get excited and do the same, kinda scary!
 
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