Just curious if anyone does and what they teach them? I heard they'll do a lot for food. Bottomless pits, they are!
Anyone train their oscars?
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Yes mate my Oscar's jump out of the water to take Lance Fish out of my hand check out my personal gallery unfortunatly they were too fast so i only got them just about to jump take a look.
yes my oscars jump to get the food/pallets out of my fingers, they also stop fighting wen they hear me screaming for them to stop. like they start to fight and i can hear them from accross the room so i just say " Jaws stop". Jaws is my tiger oscar and he is the one who always starts trouble with the other albino Oscar.
Ive done the jumping out of the water trick and they play with floating balls
when they feel like it. Oscars are very smart fish.
when they feel like it. Oscars are very smart fish.
haha, nice! oscars are so strange...i really should get some ping pong balls or somethingd20monsteroscar20 said:
my tiger oscar would eat out of my hand.and give me a kiss through the glass it was so cute.i could pet him.they are very smart,but also very moody 
I could pet mine as soon as he realized I wasn't the one who was moody!! I could also put ping pong balls in the tank and he had a ball knocking them around the tank. God I miss that fish! R.I.P 5/31/2000
Not only my oscars will play with ping pong balls, but they eventually will return them graciously to me if I request so. Im trying to train them with actual small (fish size) ping pong racquets, and I really hope that soon they will be able to compete (in a semi-professional manner) among themselves.
Ummmhmmmhmm just kidding
Actually Oscars catch falling insects, (as well as insects close to the water surface) in the wild. Thus, they will jump out of the water to retrieve food from your fingers as soon as they became familiar with the feeding appendices without major hesitation About the training deal any cichlid of that size (and smaller) can be trained to a certain extent to repeat a particular behavior that concludes or relates with one of their favorite pastimes feeding time. Maybe their slow motion movements and "great eyes" (good visual acuity) somehow help the "training" and the "trainer". ;-)
Ummmhmmmhmm just kidding
Actually Oscars catch falling insects, (as well as insects close to the water surface) in the wild. Thus, they will jump out of the water to retrieve food from your fingers as soon as they became familiar with the feeding appendices without major hesitation About the training deal any cichlid of that size (and smaller) can be trained to a certain extent to repeat a particular behavior that concludes or relates with one of their favorite pastimes feeding time. Maybe their slow motion movements and "great eyes" (good visual acuity) somehow help the "training" and the "trainer". ;-)
One of my oscars has just picked up the habit of jumping out of the water and bumping his head on the aquarium top. He has wounds from it. I even droped the water level and he keeps doing it. I think he's bored. I'll have to try the ping pong ball thing. The others haven't started jumping yet but I haven't had them that long.