Hand feeding your fish.

revhtree · Mar 16, 2012

One of the cool things about the hobby is that I love to hand feed my fish! I have had several fish over the years that love to be hand fed and of course they are mostly tangs.

What about you?

Any pics or videos to share?

Not like this...LOL!

Reef Breeders · Mar 16, 2012

I get my clownfish to do the same, the tang is still a little nervous. No pics yet

stan13ag · Mar 16, 2012

I have a clown and foxface that will eat from hand...

The foxface just worries me because of his spines

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greg0385 · Mar 16, 2012

My chromis eat flakes out my hands, i also feed brine shrimp out of a small net so there not afraid of it and i be able to net one if ever needed. Hopefully the other fish i get will do the same.

REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 16, 2012

everytime i clean my glass i feed my hand to my clownfish pair. LOL really though i used to have a dwarf lionfish and snowflake eel that i hand deeded. just call me crazy.

revhtree · Mar 16, 2012

Some triggers will actually just EAT your hand, not out of it! LOL!

Bluejawtrigger · Mar 16, 2012

My Vlamingi, Blue Jaw Trigger and both my Wrasses will eat out of my hand. And sometimes my hand. It's very cool.

Aquaph8 · Mar 17, 2012

Ill have to do a new one but here is a short one.

[video=youtube_share;p8r_DR39G5s]http://youtu.be/p8r_DR39G5s[/video]

Eggs · Mar 19, 2012

Currently a Huma Trigger and Dogface Puffer - and have been bitten.
Also had a Foxface and Sohal Tang in the past that I hand fed. The Sohal would actually follow my hand around when working in the tank, very friendly.

STL · Mar 19, 2012

revhtree said:
Some triggers will actually just EAT your hand, not out of it! LOL!

LOL - pretty much... I've got two blue throat triggers that I feed using tongs. If I try to use those same tongs to move a coral, they'll strike at the tongs and stalk it - just in case food comes out, I guess. I'm just happy it's not my hand that has their interest!

SunnyX · Mar 19, 2012

I love hand feeding my fish:

[video=youtube_share;6yEifsrSQMA]http://youtu.be/6yEifsrSQMA?hd=1[/video]

Monroereef · Mar 19, 2012

Here is mine :-

[video=youtube;LfyMNqk5Wis]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfyMNqk5Wis[/video]

Mike&Terry · Mar 19, 2012

Lovin the videos guys!

KoleTang · Mar 20, 2012

It looks like Sunny has a trick of letting the big tangs eat out of his hand while letting some food go for all of the anthias to get. It is a nice presentation!

Troylee · Mar 20, 2012

Worst thing I ever did was hand feed my clowns... Now I got piranhas every time I stick my hand in the tank haha...:tongue:

Monroereef · Mar 20, 2012

KoleTang said:
It looks like Sunny has a trick of letting the big tangs eat out of his hand while letting some food go for all of the anthias to get. It is a nice presentation!

Thanks KoleT.

Sunny

Faygoaddict · Apr 30, 2017

My pair of clowns eat from my hand. They swim to the top every time I open the lid. On the other hand, kamohara blenny...not so much lol

Leslie Tabor · Apr 30, 2017

My Midas bites ME when I feed the fish...does that count?! Lol

4FordFamily · Apr 30, 2017

All of my tangs will eat from my hand, in fact, I can pick up my Sohal tang with my bare hands and move her during feedings. No care in the world. When I'm adding new tangs she hangs in the sump for a week or so and then I add her back. She almost seems to enjoy it.

I find that type of coupled handling easier and safer than nets in her case, but try to handle her as little as possible. It's still pretty neat. She truly trusts me.

The others quickly bail when I move towards them!

saltyhog · Apr 30, 2017

Not quite all of mine eat from my hand. The two Halichoeres wrasses are a little to shy but my fairy wrasses, Potter's leopard wrasse, CBB and tang all do. This was a little while ago.