How the heck did they know that?

[oceanobsession289]

Pavlov did a conditioning experiment with dogs. The dogs were conditioned to respond to the ringing of a bell. The dogs heard the bell and began to salivate at the anticipation of food.

Your fish have been conditioned to respond to the visual representation of the yellow can as a source of food.

It's not that fish are NOT intelligent. This is just more of a case of conditioning.

Exactly! This is Classical Conditioning 101.

 

[scubasteve06]

I used to hand feed until last week...my jaguar has grown quite large and I was holding a big piece of mysis block to thaw out in the water. I guess he thought it was his and he took a hunk out of my finger and drug my hand into the water before I ripped my finger out of his mouth. I still hand feed my 29 and 55 but not in there, he gets his food dropped in now needless to say.

 

[headbanger_jib]

i use 2 different clored boxes for pellets and for dried shrimp
when i carry the pellet box towards the tank my O is not that happy but when i carry the shrimp box towards the tank he is so excited that he tries to leap out of the tank
awesome fellow to own

 

[Bobears]

Exactly! This is Classical Conditioning 101.

Classical conditioning also comes with extinction of that behavior over time if not continued. Hence the lack of true intelligence.

 

[Fish Eat Fish]

i think fish like oscars are much smarter than people give them credit for.