Ever time out a fish?

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do you give your problem fish a time out

  • yeh about a day

    Votes: 12 30.0%

  • yeh between 1-7 days

    Votes: 18 45.0%

  • MEH total complete time out

    Votes: 10 25.0%
  • Total voters
    40
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chefjamesscott

Jack Dempsey
MFK Member
Jul 16, 2008
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I have this belief that fish are smart and understand much.

I have a practice that I do with fish who are a problem.

I give them a time out. Not to often do I have this issue but this time I had my camera handy and documented it.

So I did a remake of my restaurant to make the tanks more display orientated. I moved a few of my bigger cichlids to a 6 ft 230 where my tsn and aro were placed as well. It took my red devil chicken skin(actually my daughter's fish) less than 15 minutes and he decided he would become a tyrant.

So I pulled him and put him in a back tank I keep set up and cycled for this purpose. I had just pulled all of the nicaragua cichilds and put them in the 300g and then dropped chicken skin in that tank. For the next few days every time I would walk by the tank( it is in my back storage area) he would be in the corner with this look on his face like "CAN I PLEASE COME OUT NOW!!")

So I took this picture

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Now what makes me believe that fish learn from a time out is that like the other fish I have done this with, chicken skin did not even try to avoid the net when I took him out 10 minutes ago. I told him his jail time was over and that it was time to go to the 300g.

So let us see if he fusses now.

So do any of you do the time out with your fish?
 
I have 3 oscar's and they take turns being the bully, one in particular was beating the crap out of another one so i netted him for approx. 5 minutes or so and sure as hell he sulked for about 30 mins. afterwards and stayed calm for the next few days! My wife gave me the idea and I couldn't believe when it actually worked.
 
monster convist;3940336; said:
yah when i started my tank and my betta kept on attacking the other fish i put him in the little jar thing he came with for like 30 minutes maximum and guess what it actually wrked
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My ex-wife used to do that with our Betta in our 40g planted tank. That fish was pure EVIL! :devil: It would munch Cardinal Tetras just for fun! Time outs didn't work, but a ride in the porcelain bowl worked wonders! :D :ROFL:
 
I have.Not to try and teach the fish but to give the less dominant fish in the tank a chance to recover and establish thier dominance.When the bully goes back in now someone else is boss.
 
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