Fish Trick of the Day

7/ 7/ 13

Hey guys!  I've had a recent request from Cole Beasley on how to train your fish!   I've decided to put a daily trick on here, so everyone can train their beloved pet!  Like with dogs we'll start with simple tricks and then over time we will make them more difficult.  Fish will be a bit harder than dogs, because they can't hear you or understand you.  Now by now your probably going why int he world would I want to train my fish, but there are many reasons why.  Do you have a fish that is very shy?  Is your fish always hiding in the back of the tank and when people want to see it they never can, because it's always in the back hiding?  Well fear not, Katie is here!  These tricks will help with this.  Your fish will get happy when they see people, because they know food is on the way to their tummies. They will enjoy training not because they get your attention (Lets be honest.  Do you really know a fish that adores people and loves it when they stroke their backs?  No.),but because they get food.  Therefore, when they see you, you become the food lady and then you become a good thing.  However, training is not without restrictions.  Just like you fish don't wan to be learning all day, so I would recommend training your fish in three, five minute sessions each day.  If you do anymore than that  your fish will definitely get bored with you and just swim away and do whatever it wants.  Now the first trick I will teach you is really quite simple, but first I will tell you the supplies you need.  (There's really not much!)

Supplies:

Fish
Yourself
Treats

Getting your Fish to Follow your Hand with Treats:

1. Feed your fish a few flakes of food to get them really excited!

2. Put some of their food in your hand and show them by placing your hand in the water.

3. Drop the food in your hand.

4. Get some more food in your hand and try to get your fish to eat from your hand.  (Please skip this part if you can't touch your fish.)

5. Repeat step number four until your fish is rapidly eating from your hand.

6. Stick your hand over the water with a treat in your hand.  If your fish swims up to the top of the tank to look drop a treat in.

7. Repeat step six until your fish is rapidly checking out your hand.

8. Move your hand a little bit and see if your fish follows.  If your fish doesn't follow to begin with stick your hand in the water with the treat and move it and wait for the fish to follow.

9. Repeat step eight until your fish is following you hand slightly.

10. Move your hand more and more until your fish is following your hand.

11.  You've trained your fish their first trick!