Who “literally” HAND FEEDS their fish???

[Chortanator]

My fish are too small for me to feed anything I can hold, but I do hand-feed salmon chunks to my nems and brittle star

 

[Dave1993]

never tried but the only fish that i would have a chance of hand feeding is my captive bred goldflake angel

 

[EugeneVan]

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.

Mine even know when it is feeding or housing keeping time. When it is housing keeping time, they all stay at the back and peeking at me through the holes

 

[Glenner’sreef]

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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A foxface? Totally impressed!!! Great video. Thx

 

[Glenner’sreef]

never tried but the only fish that i would have a chance of hand feeding is my captive bred goldflake angel

A beautiful fish. Congrats.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

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.

Nice!!! My Sailfin is 3 times that……with molers!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

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

I hear WWC sell hooks!

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Hand feed mine strawberries and bananas as a treat every now and again.

 

[Karen00]

Mine are too small to hand feed plus they're mostly bottom dwellers so I target feed using a medicine dropper. Now they just sit on the dropper and wait for the food to squirt out or they poke at it thinking that's how the food dispenses. They're super smart and anyone who says otherwise has never kept fish! I also believe they know the hand that feeds them and strangers aren't necessarily allowed into their private world. Just their special caretaker.

 

[jtf74]

 

[Phiilip]

I had a snowflake eel back in the 90s and hand fed him live feeder comets. Like most morays, he couldn’t see a dang thing but he could smell. As soon as the comet hit the water, he’d start going nuts looking for it. He learned to eat out of my hand and would just chomp away until he found the feeder comet. Didn’t really hurt since he was small and didn’t have any teeth. Would not recommend that for any other type of moray though!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Great video, I have a CBB. I think it would take a while for mine to get the courage to do that.

 

[jtf74]

Great video, I have a CBB. I think it would take a while for mine to get the courage to do that.

Hands down my favorite fish. I always loved this video of this ccb named Willie chasing a baster end for black worms. My cbb started eating mysis fairly quickly, but I also had blackworms on hand just in case and those really got him excited. He started grabbing them out as soon as the cup hit the water and after about a month I noticed aiptasia disappearing from the QT he was in. I keep aiptasia outside my DT because he loves them and nothing else will touch them, so I figured if he will peck the cup in my hand he'll take it from my hand.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Hands down my favorite fish. I always loved this video of this ccb named Willie chasing a baster end for black worms. My cbb started eating mysis fairly quickly, but I also had blackworms on hand just in case and those really got him excited. He started grabbing them out as soon as the cup hit the water and after about a month I noticed aiptasia disappearing from the QT he was in. I keep aiptasia outside my DT because he loves them and nothing else will touch them, so I figured if he will peck the cup in my hand he'll take it from my hand.

Agreed!!! Best and best looking! No Aptasias in the dt. In the overflow and sump yes, lol.

 

[G Santana]

If I can find my two emerald crabs I will feed them via a long thin baster. I also feed my blood shrimp daily.

But not my fish, they are so fat they need the exercise, cardio keeps the bulge down.

 

[Slocke]

I know this guy doesn't have the teeth to hurt me but it does still make me nervous.

 

[MoshJosh]

I tweezer feed my clowns, probably could hand feed them but haven't tried. . . yet.

I used to hand feed my discus on occasion, sometimes they (and their angelfish tankmates) would nip my fingers while trying to get the food.

 

[i cant think]

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?

If I did it… the clown would most likely purposefully miss the food and go for my arm. Although, I have accidentally hand fed the CBB several times as he’s usually the first at the food and my hand often catches pieces of food.

 

[Jekyl]

My clowns bite me every chance they get. Does that count?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

My clowns bite me every chance they get. Does that count?

If the consume flesh, then yes lol.