Hand feeding (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

Tonight I was rearranging some corals in my tank to make way for a couple of new frags I picked up, and I noticed that my white-cheeked tang kept swimming around, sometimes getting very close to my hand. The first couple of times, it scared me and I was worried she might take a swipe at me with her tail. But after a few times I could tell she wasn't agitated.

Now, this was really weird, because this has been the most skittish fish I've ever owned. Usually if I get within a foot of the tank, she will run and hide, and all of a sudden, here she is swimming around in the open with my hand in the tank. So, I get a small piece of nori and I roll it up and hold it in my hand, and she comes up and starts eating from my hand. 8)

I've hand fed clownfish before, and even my chromis practically jumps out of the water to get food from my hand, but I was really surprised I could get my shy tang to do it.

So, what other fish have you been able to hand feed?

 

[Guest]

i have 2 yellow tang Hand feedingon my agresive fish tank and niger trigger hide and the picasso to but this guys no

 

[HolyBanana]

I used to have a bat fish that let me pet him. He was way cool.

 

[Guest]

My tang eats from my hand too, he even lets me stoke his head. When I first got him he would dart and hide when I came near the tank too, but one day he just changed. Now he is more tame than my daughters cats!
cyn

 

[incysor]

My clowns are pretty close to letting me hand feed them...Although it's more like they're really impatient, than friendly or unconcerned. My octopus is hand-fed everyday. Many of my friends have gotten to play/pet it. One of the lawnmower blennies hasn't really come up for hand feeding, but when I'm rearranging, or cleaning, I've had to push him off a rock before he'd move outta the way.

 

[KarenB]

Before our cleaner wrasse died, he would swim around in the palm of my cupped hand. It was really cute. I miss him.........

The chromis are the only ones that will actually eat out of my hand, because they are so eager to eat that they will not wait until it all goes in. The female clown will occasionally take something from my fingers.

Shrimp is not fish, but all the shrimp we have will eat from my hand. Even when I've got my hand in the tank to rearrange something or whatever, the cleaner shrimp will climb up on my hand looking for whatever he thinks I should be giving him. Our blood shrimp has gotten so big that he's almost intimidating, lol.

 

[Guest]

When I had my last tank, over 10 years ago, I had a copperband butterfly that would not only eat from my hand and beg for food any time that he saw me in front of the tank, he would swim into my hand and lay down anytime that I'd stick my hand into the tank. To say that he was my favorite was an understatement and when I lost him it was as devistating as losing a cat or a dog. In fact, I would love to have one now and was eyeballing a couple that Kenny had yesterday, but hate to risk losing another one. Sorry to rain on a happy thread...

Bobby