No joke....I can be looking at the tank and see them huddled up in a corner and as soon as I start to look at them, they school over to the middle of the tank swimming by me and looking at me....lol. When they see me open the hood up, to drop food in, they swim over to the middle of the tank. Maybe just me being crazy but I feel like they recognize me
Do your fish know who you are?
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ya - mine watch me for sure... they know where the food comes from ?
Most of my fish do, some of the dumber species don’t but everyone else definitely can tell. They are out and about if I come over, but other people they hide for.
Yes. Even after 6 days, my Del comes to the corner I feed him in when I walk into the room 
My Archers sure could. Here is a cool video from nat geo.
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And here is a better article.
www.nature.com
Watch this water-spitting fish identify human faces, get rewards
In a recent study, archerfish identified human faces by squirting water at the correct image on a screen.
video.nationalgeographic.com
And here is a better article.
Discrimination of human faces by archerfish (Toxotes chatareus) - Scientific Reports
Two rival theories of how humans recognize faces exist: (i) recognition is innate, relying on specialized neocortical circuitry and (ii) recognition is a learned expertise, relying on general object recognition pathways. Here, we explore whether animals without a neocortex, can learn to...
www.nature.com