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| Posted | How Smart Are Your Fish? |
| 10-08-2007 12:27 by missyfishy |
Hi Everyone
I'm writing a piece on pondfish intelligence for a fishy magazine (this is a fascinating subject). Does anyone have any stories showing how intelligent their goldfish/koi are? Have you managed to train them to do anything? I'd like to include as many examples from different people as possible. |
| 10-08-2007 12:35 by Woz |
well mine eat out of my hand and thats about all, but a mate of mine has a kind of small food box above his pond with a white string dangling into the pond, and when the fish pull on the string it releases about 20pellets which they soon woof down, and theres a few fish in his pond what are doing it now |
| 10-08-2007 16:35 by missyfishy |
That's fascinating, Woz. That's the sort of thing I'm after. |
| 10-08-2007 17:35 by perky |
mmmmmm That sounds a bit fishy to me woz...  |
| 10-08-2007 20:34 by telboy |
perky when ya gonna get in touch big boi? |
| 10-08-2007 20:38 by telboy |
my fish speak to me i hear em "bob, bob hello bob"dunno who "bob" is but thats what they say |
| 11-08-2007 12:55 by Woz |
floods**** not ponds  |
| 11-08-2007 12:55 by Woz |
may i add the idea wasnt his own he got it out of some magazine a while back that featured certain things that koi had been trained to do....ill try and found out where the article was from...they dont do it anymore anyway, they got swept away in the ponds |
| 11-08-2007 17:26 by woody007 |
Hi i have two 2ft ghost koi in a pond of about 80 goldfish and 15 koi,due to the fact that the local heron thinks they are there for his eating pleasure i have a wire mesh over the pond,some times food gets stuck on the wire about 2inch above the water line,this is when one of the large koi jumps on the back of the other big one who lifts him up just enough to get to the food,this you might think is fantastic but the best part is he only eats the orange pellets,then they change places and the other large koi lifted by his mate eats all the green one's  |
| 12-08-2007 05:25 by Lnrak |
My fish can read....is that clever enough for you? somebody prove me wrong  |
| 12-08-2007 05:26 by Lnrak |
but only books with BIG letters..... |
| 12-08-2007 08:39 by perky |
Yeah and my fish can blow bubbles. |
| 12-08-2007 11:03 by missyfishy |
It would be great if you could find that article, Woz. I haven't managed to locate it. Woody007 - I can't tell if you're pulling my leg or you really believe your fish do this? |
| 12-08-2007 17:03 by Woz |
its in a koi mag that was published around a year or so ago, i can try and find what it was tomorrow night, havent got the time tonight |
| 15-08-2007 22:31 by Danny Boy |
my oscars will lift themselves out of the water about half a body length and tap the lid of the tank. they do this because when i feed pellet in to the hole it will always leave a few on top. they have worked out that sometimes they get lucky and one or two roll in to the tank. i would put oscars down as being the most intelligent fish ive kept. ive seen pictures of one that had ping pong balls in its tank that had been sunk and this oscar would line up the balls in the sand. although the owner could have done it and took the pics so cant confirm. |
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