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- From: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
- Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
- Subject: Fish as pets...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.164347.21881@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:43:47 GMT
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Reply-To: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- I just thoguth I'd share this... It always amazes me at how
- intelligent and trusting fish can become (especially when they
- are hungry ;)...
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- I've been keeping fish (various phases/types) since I was 11 years
- old (I'm 27 now).
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- People never believe me when I say that fish make great pets...
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- Just the other day I was trying to reprime a filter siphon
- when my sunfish (a young bluegill that I caught with hook and worm,
- actually about 20 worms! He kept stripping my hook!) and oscar
- came whipping up to where my hands were just above the surfacve of the
- water. They stayed there watching, and when I went to dip the tube
- into the water, they wouldn't move!! I tried to shoo them, then I
- lifted the tube out of the water and the sunfish jumped for my fingers!
- Well, i put my hands back in the water to get the siphon going and my
- oscar swam over and bit the tip of one of my fingers! It sounds like
- I never feed them, but I feed them 3 times daily and supplement with
- at least 80 goldfish a week!!! (There are other heavy eaters in the
- tank).
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- The funny thing is when I have guests over... the fish all kind of
- shy away from the front and top of the tank. They definitely know
- me from others.
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- Another story that happened awhile ago was with my favorite oscar
- (who died some years ago .. choked on a tankmate that was just
- too large to eat) who was VERY intelligent. Besides having him
- trained to do a few tricks (seriously), he knew me very well. He
- would let me pet him with my hands... but if my brother or father
- stuck there hands in (this is true) he would attack them... not for
- food, but like a cichlid challenging another cichlid infringing on
- his territory...
-
- Anyway... I just thought I'd share that...
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- Mike
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