What's the smartest fish you have ever owned?

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my rtcxtsn hybrid he watches me everywhere i go in the room and follow. Everytime i approach him he gets up and swims to me lol reminds me of a small puppy
 
Male Jack Dempsey by far. He sill spit rocks at the side of the tank to let me know he wants a snack, this is not just him redecorating, he does that to, but when he wants my attention for a snack he swims to the top and shoots them into the glass until I give him something, then he stops. Since moving to the 125 last month, I've already trained him with something new. Since he's bigger, he eats larger food than most of his tankmates. So as they are in a frenzy on the one side, I tap the other side of the tank for him to go over there and wait for me to give him his massivore, beefheart or raw shrimp. He will stay with the smaller fish eating their food until I tap the other side of the tank, then he will go there and wait. He also swims around my hand when I vac gravel and keeps other fish away from me and when I've hand fed him shrimp he will take the shrimp so gently out of my hand like he want to make sure he doesn't bit me.
 
I have a pack of clown loaches that know when dinner time is they will all start to swim up to the top of one side of the tank when its time for food,will quite happily take food from my hand and depending on where I am in the room they will sit in an area that they can see me it is quite stange to see 5 loaches all just sitting resting on there fins all watching me.
When doing gravel vac the biggest one will follow my hand around the tank and chases any of the others away if they try and come near my hand.
 
I would deffinetaly say my Oscar, He knows when i'm at the tank, if I walk by the tank, he goes along beside me, He lets me hand feed him pellets........but my Cigar is also quite close to as smart, he's knows when it's feeding time & he eats alot of floating pellets before any of my others can get at them.
 
As far as cichlids, The jack dempsey in my avatar.

But overall, it's a tie between two triggerfish. I had an undulated trigger and a queen trigger that were extremely intelligent fish....watched television with me and loved music
 
you guys have no idea how smart cichlids are... read "the cichlid fishes" by george barlow. a great scientific piece on the extrordinary nature of cichlids and how they are an evolutionary marvel. I would say discuss are among the most intelligent cichlids. Also intelligence is subject however most would say social relationships help a species to become more intelligent. So, it would seem logical to say that the more social relationships a species tends to have or can have the smarter it is.
 
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