So far I've trained my betta to eat from my finger, jump for his food, and flare on command at a black sharpie. What I can't do yet is get him to follow my finger... I've tried wiggling my finger and hoping to get him to follow it, but he loses interest in it very easily. The sharpie he only associates with the flare trick, so he doesn't follow it. Odd that I got my little guy to do all those more complicated things rather than the simple act of following my finger... XD
I do want to train my little guy to do the little hoop trick (for those that don't know: getting your betta to swim through a hoop is what I'm talking about), but since he doesn't like following my finger, I'm at a loss of how to do it, exactly. Any suggestions?
You can make one easily. Thats what I'd suggest. You can go to a crafts store or an arts store and they usually have those bendable plastics you can attach together to make a hoop. Or you can use rope if you feel like too, that's what I'm opting for.
Haven't placed the rope hoop in the water yet, still working on trying to get him to follow my finger >.>
You could try ordering it online. There's something called the R2 Fish School training set and it comes with hoops and other stuff too. Even things to teach a fish soccer, oddly enough. From what I see on eBay, its relatively cheap.
I am planning on training my bettas with Micro Pellets rather than standard sized Betta Pellets. Maybe you can do that instead. It would take close to a dozen micro pellets to equal a regular pellet. My bettas still love them.
That's easy to do. Only feed him on the left side of the tank.
I had females that knew exactly to go to the front, center, top of the tank for food. They learned that the little door in the hood in the front and center, if opened meant feeding time. Eventually when they saw me approach they would always run to that part of the tank.
Associating a location or action with feeding time is the easiest trick to do. The first sorority I had had trouble coming up for food, because in the tank they were in they were so distracted and often didn't see me approach. I now teach my bettas that tapping on the tank rim means food. Now with my new sorority when I put them in the first time I tapped and they all immediately came to the top & center of the tank ready for food watching the top of the water.
For that it was as simple as tapping on the rim before I fed them. Only after a couple of days they associated that with food.
or you could get him to swim through hoops. thats cool too.
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