Hand Feeding Fish

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i hand feed 2 catfish one 5" the other 7" and soon a 13" fire eel.
 
I live to hand feed my discus it's so cute. Now they swim around my hand and nip at me when I'm doing stuff In the tank. It helps makes them tame and less afraid of you when doing wc and stuff.

I try and feed my larger cichlids but they are too aggressive and and fast. I will hand feed kill to them sometimes it's fun. I had my friends daughter hand feed my severum she loved it.
 
Come to think of it, my tiger barbs in my 20 gallon eat from my hand too. I guess it's just a little less exciting to me to hold flake at the top of the tank. The way I did it with them was only approach the tank to give food so they began associating me with being fed (obviously I couldn't do this 100% of the time, for water changes and such, but I tried to stick to it as much as possible). They eventually began eating from my hand.
 
Sweet video
That was when he was in the 80 gallon tank. Now he is in a 180.
 
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