How to Play With a Goldfish
Feed them from your hand., Use food to encourage particular behaviors., Use a feeding stick.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Feed them from your hand.
Goldfish will eat from their owners’ hands after getting used to their aquarium for a few weeks.
This behavior enables you to teach them tricks, using food as a reward.Feed goldfish different kinds of foods.
Goldfish like freeze dried food, pellets, flakes, or fresh or frozen vegetables.Be careful not to overfeed your fish.
This can result in a disorder known as swim bladder.
The goldfish becomes bloated and floats at the top of the water.
The solution is to withhold food for two days or feed it only cooked beans or peas. -
Step 2: Use food to encourage particular behaviors.
You can train your goldfish to do specific things like go through hoops.
In fact, just as you do with a puppy, you can train your goldfish to do these things by using a treat system.
Show them what you want them to do, then give them a reward.
A training kit may provide a hollow stick you can place food in to deliver the treat more quickly.Show them what you want them to do by leading them through a trick with food, either with the feeding stick or your fingers.
For example, if you have a hoop set up in the water, hold the food on the opposite side of the hoop from where the goldfish is located.
Let them eat the food after they have swum through the hoop.
Repeat this training routine with any action you wish your goldfish to make. , A feeding might make it easier to encourage a goldfish to do particular things.
This is because such a stick allows the food to stay under water and doesn’t get in the goldfish’s way.
To make your own feeding stick for training, try using food stuck to the end of a skewer.If you don’t have a feeding stick, place goldfish food on top of the water.
If your goldfish will eat from your fingers, you can deliver the reward snack this way as well. -
Step 3: Use a feeding stick.
Detailed Guide
Goldfish will eat from their owners’ hands after getting used to their aquarium for a few weeks.
This behavior enables you to teach them tricks, using food as a reward.Feed goldfish different kinds of foods.
Goldfish like freeze dried food, pellets, flakes, or fresh or frozen vegetables.Be careful not to overfeed your fish.
This can result in a disorder known as swim bladder.
The goldfish becomes bloated and floats at the top of the water.
The solution is to withhold food for two days or feed it only cooked beans or peas.
You can train your goldfish to do specific things like go through hoops.
In fact, just as you do with a puppy, you can train your goldfish to do these things by using a treat system.
Show them what you want them to do, then give them a reward.
A training kit may provide a hollow stick you can place food in to deliver the treat more quickly.Show them what you want them to do by leading them through a trick with food, either with the feeding stick or your fingers.
For example, if you have a hoop set up in the water, hold the food on the opposite side of the hoop from where the goldfish is located.
Let them eat the food after they have swum through the hoop.
Repeat this training routine with any action you wish your goldfish to make. , A feeding might make it easier to encourage a goldfish to do particular things.
This is because such a stick allows the food to stay under water and doesn’t get in the goldfish’s way.
To make your own feeding stick for training, try using food stuck to the end of a skewer.If you don’t have a feeding stick, place goldfish food on top of the water.
If your goldfish will eat from your fingers, you can deliver the reward snack this way as well.
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