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This is my first thread. I have a female Beta fish named Jewel. I first taught her to follow a toothbrush around her tank, both inside and out. I figured this was a good way for her to get exercise. She learned this in just 2 or 3 days, if I remember correctly. After she mastered that, I taught her to swim through a hoop I made out of pipe cleaners, but after a couple days, I was worried about the metal in the pipe cleaners corroding, so I bought one of those hoops for a pet bird, put a plant weight one one end, and suspended the hoop across the top of her tank with a stick. She goes crazy when she sees me coming towards her with her hoops. When I first started to show her how to swim through the hoop, I placed the hoop between her and her toothbrush. Since she already knew to swim to her toothbrush, it was quite simple. After she swam through the hoop, I rewarded her with 1 pellet. I did this just once a day, careful not to give her too many pellets, so the training sessions took place during feeding time. Even after I was sick, and wasn't training her for close to a week, she still remembered how to swim through her hoop when we started up again. I am an animal lover, so when I am trying to get an animals attention, I blow kisses at them. Jewel is no different. After a while of sitting next to her tank, blowing kisses to her several times a day, I noticed that she was kissing me back. It is so cute, but she won't blow kisses when someone else is in the room with us. When I find out how to post a video of her doing this, I, 'll post it.
This is my first thread. I have a female Beta fish named Jewel. I first taught her to follow a toothbrush around her tank, both inside and out. I figured this was a good way for her to get exercise. She learned this in just 2 or 3 days, if I remember correctly. After she mastered that, I taught her to swim through a hoop I made out of pipe cleaners, but after a couple days, I was worried about the metal in the pipe cleaners corroding, so I bought one of those hoops for a pet bird, put a plant weight one one end, and suspended the hoop across the top of her tank with a stick. She goes crazy when she sees me coming towards her with her hoops. When I first started to show her how to swim through the hoop, I placed the hoop between her and her toothbrush. Since she already knew to swim to her toothbrush, it was quite simple. After she swam through the hoop, I rewarded her with 1 pellet. I did this just once a day, careful not to give her too many pellets, so the training sessions took place during feeding time. Even after I was sick, and wasn't training her for close to a week, she still remembered how to swim through her hoop when we started up again. I am an animal lover, so when I am trying to get an animals attention, I blow kisses at them. Jewel is no different. After a while of sitting next to her tank, blowing kisses to her several times a day, I noticed that she was kissing me back. It is so cute, but she won't blow kisses when someone else is in the room with us. When I find out how to post a video of her doing this, I, 'll post it.