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Originally Posted by Holladay
Last point.
People don't think fish aren't intelligent. They are. I have trained fish to jump out of my tank. They follow my hand. I have yet to have them let me stroke their sides (gotten close). Some Oscars, trained correctly, will shove a ping pong ball threw hoops and put them in goals. I don't have time to try that.
This was interesting. The laser pointers that you play with cats/dogs. I was playing with the cats and thought, what the heck, and pointed it into the tank. Dang the upside down cats, the danio, the sliver dollars, the dempesys, the parrot nose cichlids were all chase the laser pointer 
Plecos didn't give a crap 
Not as much as a cat or dog crazy, but were stimulated by it. Funny. |
I had a fancy goldfish that I rescued from a very small, and very green bowl that just loved me. She too would breach and knew I was teaching her to breach through a hoop but we didn't get there before she died. I used to run from side to side of the tank and she would swim fast to meet me every time. Could pet her too and she did loops for me. Bubbles sometimes. It was amazing and hit hard when she died. I haven't had a tank since. This bump has me thinking about it again.