Who here can hand feed their fish?

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I could before. Now my clown turned into a piranha. I don't even like adding frags.
 

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I am able to hand feed all of my tangs seaweed they all eat from my hand. And my carpenter flasher wrasse comes up to my hand as soon as my hand goes in the tank. But mainly I feed my zebra eel by hand, otherwise I’ll use tongs.
 

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Hey wait I didn't see your hand in that video at all.

The only fish that I have that will eat directly from my fingers is my Midas blenny. When I put food in the tank with my fingers if I don't let go quickly he will start nipping at my fingers to get to the food.
 

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I used to hand feed a lot. This current new group of fish (since my horrible tank move) are a bit more shy still. I dump in and they will come up and even bite the bowl I feed with. I think they would probably happily eat from my hand and get some nice skin too. Crazy fish.
 
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Hey wait I didn't see your hand in that video at all.

The only fish that I have that will eat directly from my fingers is my Midas blenny. When I put food in the tank with my fingers if I don't let go quickly he will start nipping at my fingers to get to the food.
That's fair lol it was holding the top of the frag, I'll get full finger shots next round
 
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First time I had my set up I could not only hand feed but actually pet my dogface puffer.
My clown used to like pets, but after she got her big anemone in my last tank she didn't want them anymore :(
 
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3 clowns 6 bubble tip anemones. Clowns have not yet touched the anemones..
What color and size are the anemones? Mine lived with 15+ rainbow nems and hosted in the overflow. 15 minutes after putting a large Sherman rose in the tank she moved in. At least for my clowns, color matters!
 

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What color and size are the anemones? Mine lived with 15+ rainbow nems and hosted in the overflow. 15 minutes after putting a large Sherman rose in the tank she moved in. At least for my clowns, color matters!
My biggest anemone split twice in 3 days. All doing great.

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My clownfish thinks my hand IS food... Does that count??
 

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