Who “literally” HAND FEEDS their fish???

[Glenner’sreef]

I’ve always admired the hobbyist and fish relationship when it comes to “hand feeding”. I’ve done it with one fish, my Unicorn Tang, but the food is Nori…a large piece of Nori. But my larger fish in my display, I just don’t want to lose a chunk of skin.

Who of you are brave enough?

 

[aggrofish]

As a result of my laziness I usually take broken food and stick it in front of a powerhead to disperse in the tank. My sailfin doesn’t wait and just eats it out of my hand. The teeth are scratchy when it gets my fingers, it doesn’t cut.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I hand feed. All six clowns will come up. 3 tangs and a few wrasse will all eat flake from my fingers.

Most of the nori eaters will take it from my hand.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

All my tangs do it.
My wrasse has me skiddish because it so fast, when comes up to my hand I always pull back haha. 3 out of the 7 clowns have always played dead when I hand feed, the others just wait for scraps.

 

[A_Blind_Reefer]

I’ve always admired the hobbyist anf fish relationship when it comes to “hand feeding”. I’ve done it with one fish, my Unicorn Tang, but the food is Nori…a large piece of Nori. But my larger fish in my display, I just don’t want to lose a chunk of skin.

Who of you are brave enough?

Ha! Scared of those larger fish huh? Try sticking your hand close to my genetically engineered piranha clowns! Well, ok….not genetically engineered, but I’m sure if I did a 23and me test there would be piranha lineage in there somewhere!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Ha! Scared of those larger fish huh? Try sticking your hand close to my genetically engineered piranha clowns! Well, ok….not genetically engineered, but I’m sure if I did a 23and me test there would be piranha lineage in there somewhere!

Hilarious! 23 and me dna fish test.

 

[Steve and his Animals]

I try to do this with all my fish. I even have a marine betta who does it (which also keeps him visible all day). Only fish I don't trust are young moray eels (after multiple bites, the big guys are a lot nicer/smarter) and large puffers (I see what they do to clam shells, I don't want that near my fingers).

Butterflies seem to be the most apt to do this since they prefer to eat from surfaces more than try to grab stuff from the water. I'm also starting to be more wary of boxfish; my solorensis almost took the hair off my finger once when I wasn't looking.

 

[homer1475]

I hand feed all my fish.

I literally take a chunk of frozen, and mush it between my fingers in the tank to thaw it.

While I'm at it, my clown, starry blenny, and leopards will come take pieces from my fingers. Luckily none of them have large enough teeth to break the skin, as they often times miss the food in their haste.

 

[blaxsun]

I've got too many pigs and am at the point where I need to almost wear a raincoat during feeding. My parrotfish does let me pet him, though.

 

[SPS2020]

Mine would if I let them. I take a piece of Larry's Reef Frenzy and hold it in front of a gyre. My Bristletooth Tang and Yellow Tang chases my hand for the food. Not sure I trust the Bristletooth! LOL

 

[Tamberav]

I have a clownfish that will eat a hand. Does that count?

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

All of my fish used to be hand fed, but I resorted to pellets since hand feeding took too much time during my lunch. My favorite was the whitetail bristletooth tang. He would clean my fingers while he was at it.

 

[revhtree]

Hand feeding fish is the best!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Today, I’m going to have raw oysters and Chicken in a Biscuit crackers (livin the dream!) I’m going to try hand feeding my three large tangs and CBB some oyster. I hopefully got on their good side by just moments ago giving them some fresh strawberry. Update to follow.

 

[Sean Clark]

This is one of my favorite things to do. The kids really enjoy it as well.

 

[Mflores888]

I hand feed them from time to time and I also scratch their bellies at times. Mostly with my foxface, midas blenny and with the purple tang

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[Anemone_Fanatic]

My clowns would jump for food when held over the water, and would certainly eat from my hand. I thought that it was cute before I knew how clownfish worked, so I encouraged them biting my hand by giving them food whenever they did. Needless to say, they became vicious. Crazy little piranhas. I want to see River Monsters do an episode on clownfish.

 

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[EugeneVan]

I've got too many pigs and am at the point where I need to almost wear a raincoat during feeding. My parrotfish does let me pet him, though.

Same here, my power brown, power blue, foxface and harlequin tuckfish are all eating like a pig

 

[BZOFIQ]

I do it all the time.

Funny enough, they won't come to my wife if she tries. I believe this alone confirms that they recognize the individual coming up to the tank.