The Fish Whisperer

[killerfish]

this can work or you can give them a treat when there calm but don't count on it larger more aggressive fish will fight when your not around or a really aggressive fish like dovii or red devil and others will simply attack your hand to

 

[cenecker]

my oscar can use a litter pan

 

[nomadofthehills]

But i thought golfish have a memory of only 3seconds...

Do you honestly believe that ridiculous old wives tale?

 

[importracer]

Does this fall in lines of "training a fish"....If so....Then I have met people who have trained their Oscars to go through little plastic loops for food....Their are a few that have been trained to jump through the loops too....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0vuVAgkjDY

 

[midasman714]

Recently, I had a customer tell me that he had a tank with a mix of Sa/Ca cichlids and one was always chasing the others (Trimac or Flowerhorn we never could decide). He said he treated it like a dog, and when he saw it chasing the others he would put his hand in the tank and push it back or just scare it back with his hand in front of its face. He said that after a while the fish would know not to chase the others because he would just sort of continue in this fashion every time he saw any aggression towards the other fish.

If any fish were smart enough to understand that, they'll be smart enough to attack the other fish when the "fish wisperer" is not not looking!

 

[FSM]

I think thats probably possible...Imagine if every time you did something a giant hand opened the ceiling and smacked you. lol

 

[Bderick67]

Does this fall in lines of "training a fish"....If so....Then I have met people who have trained their Oscars to go through little plastic loops for food....Their are a few that have been trained to jump through the loops too....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0vuVAgkjDY

Looks to me that oscar is just swimming the shortest distance to the food on the straw they put into the tank.


I have detered my silver aros from jumping or lungeing at food before I place it into the water. By pushing down on top of their heads before feeding, they have learned that the food will be place into the water and they no longer lunge at my hand.

 

[Cich_lids]

I have heard of people putting fish in those round hamster balls for a time out when they have been aggressive. I don't know if that would work put maybe.

 

[LordIronSpatula]

I have heard of people putting fish in those round hamster balls for a time out when they have been aggressive. I don't know if that would work put maybe.

LOL! Do they make hamster balls big enough for adult large cichlids?

When I was a kid, I had a pair of blue gouramis in a 10 gallon community, and the male was constantly chasing and harrassing the female. I took a tacky little plastic "decoration" fish that had a stake attached to it to anchor it in the gravel, and I'd stick it in there and chase him with it every time I saw him being agressive. He actually calmed down in a few days.

Back then I thought I schooled him but looking back I'm not so sure.

 

[Chago09]

the fish probably stopped because it saw Giant Human Being Putting this giant thing with 5 tentacles bigger then the fish, so he got scared and stopped chasing.

I am not scientist but my theory sounds pretty good LOL

My trimac will let me pet him before every meal. He bites my friends when they try it, or he will dart down and flap his tail like a whale. Although my tank is not in the atlantic, rather in my family room and everytime he does that, I have water all over the place.