Do you punish your fish
- Thread starter Rusty Gilbert
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i don't see why your fish wouldn't remember, they all sure remember when i walk to the tank that its time to eat.
bgcoop8784;3440801; said:
I guess your right but i mean knowing the food is there might be instinct i dunno jus thought id see what ppl thought in this matter
when i introduced my new aro to the tank i used my net to push my oscars away when they tried to go after the aro. lol
It's called behavioral conditioning. The fish probably doesn't remember what you did to punish it, but it associates the act it performed with your consequential negative stimulus. Using shaping techniques, a person can train pigeons to play ping pong, rats to play basketball and goldfish to swim through hoops. You can also convince brain-dead consumers to purchase whatever image you flash in front of their faces, but that's another story. It's not learning as we know it, it's a more primitive and devious technique that meddles with the survival instinct/pleasure centers of an animal.
I feel compelled to add that a man once conditioned two male bettas to live peacefully in the same tank. He sat at the tank for hours on end, poking the fish with the eraser end of a pencil whenever they would flare or nip. After three days, they stopped trying to fight and did live peacefully. Not that I'd recommend trying it. Seems a bit cruel overall.
I feel compelled to add that a man once conditioned two male bettas to live peacefully in the same tank. He sat at the tank for hours on end, poking the fish with the eraser end of a pencil whenever they would flare or nip. After three days, they stopped trying to fight and did live peacefully. Not that I'd recommend trying it. Seems a bit cruel overall.
