was wondering anyone train or tricks that their oscar does. so far i have my oscar to hand feed him and he slowly letting me pet him a bit. Im in process of teaching them to ring bell for food lol way they eat bell will never stop lol. I found out u can train oscars to ring bell of food. im using cricket and slowly i ring the bell couple times that slighty floats on water but tied to my center bar that separates my two lids. after i ring couple time he come towards me i drop cricket in so far its a process but i think it may work lol

It is possible to teach your fish to do this, good luck with it and if you succeed then post a vid of it please

iv never been tempted to train my fish but if u suceed id love 2 c a vid

I have mine trained to the point that when I clap a couple of times my Oscar knows it's time to eat. It will go into a little frenzy and start doing laps broken up by rushing at the spot where I always drop food. Almost indicative of how a dog acts at dinner time.

I have always clapped my hands and whistled a few times before feeding. Pretty much been three years in the process.

Paul

You can teach them to pull a small rope to get a pellet.
We had a vid of that lately.

can most fish be taught to do that or just oscar sized fish?

askhammatt wrote:


Hi Matty - Anything can be trained mate - I have seen gold fish that have been trained.

I doubt it is a case of adding value to its cognitive ability though - must be more a case of just pounding it into it's short term memory through repetition and I would dare say that if you didn't keep it up and dropped off the behavior for a week or so the fish would quickly forget the whole song and dance.

Paul

what not to train them to do bad bad bad idea

Great Videos Bio -

Soccer? A-Freaking-Mazing !!!!

cool vids, im bound to be biased towards the fish playing football though right??

im hoping people that think its cool to have their fish jump that they see last vid first