Fish love getting pet... or do they?

[elephantnose3334]

So I found this video from an animal rights organisation about animal hugs and one of the clips, at the 0:40 mark shows a fish being petted by a person. Due to the low quality of this clip, we can't identify the fish. So, can fish really like getting petted?

Animal Hugs: Animals who want to hug - Kinder World

This amazing video features the purest animal hugs. These hugs are so captivating because it's clear they come from the heart.

www.kinderworld.org

 

[Colin_T]

the fish is an orange flowerhorn cichlid and looked more like it wanted food than pats.

 

[GaryE]

I had an Xiphophorus variatus that used to swim into my cupped hand and sit there. In time, it would jump into my hand if it was near the surface. I was about 16 at the time, but luckily, I knew my hand had to be very wet or I would have killed it. The body slime on a fish is a first line immune defence, and dry hands remove it. I've had thousands of fish since then, and not one was weird enough to want contact with obvious danger.

I don't think such a video is a credible look at the issue. If they knew about the animals they present, there would not have been a flowerhorn in the vid, and they would have included advice about how such contact is dangerous for the fish.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I had an Xiphophorus variatus that used to swim into my cupped hand and sit there. In time, it would jump into my hand if it was near the surface. I was about 16 at the time, but luckily, I knew my hand had to be very wet or I would have killed it. The body slime on a fish is a first line immune defence, and dry hands remove it. I've had thousands of fish since then, and not one was weird enough to want contact with obvious danger.

I don't think such a video is a credible look at the issue. If they knew about the animals they present, there would not have been a flowerhorn in the vid, and they would have included advice about how such contact is dangerous for the fish.

Interesting. The video was from an animal organisation, like I mentioned earlier.

 

[GaryE]

Not all animal organizations are immune to cuteness, and our love of things "cute" has caused misery to many animals...

 

[elephantnose3334]

Not all animal organizations are immune to cuteness, and our love of things "cute" has caused misery to many animals...

I have found another video involving petting fish. The fish may not want food, but some love. Also, can you ID this species for me? This is clearer than the last video.

 

[Back in the fold]

I knew a guy who petted his big Oscars all the time . It was cool to watch .

 

[emeraldking]

My koi always liked it. They always let me pet them. The livebearers I keep outdoors will go on my hand when I put my hand in the water but the livebearers indoors not so much...

 

[Colin_T]

My koi always liked it. They always let me pet them. The livebearers I keep outdoors will go on my hand when I put my hand in the water but the livebearers indoors not so much...

They are just lulling you into a false sense of security and one day they are going to drag you into the pond and eat you

 

[GaryE]

@elephantnose3334 I don't know what the fish is, but as noted before, it's in grave danger of a fungal or bacterial infection from being hand fed and petted, if it's done wrongly. I love animals and my puppy is sitting on my feet as I write here. I have petted cats, dogs, goats and even carefully petted a rhino one time. As a human, I love contact with other animals, and even the rhino seemed to appreciate my raising clouds of dust off her shoulder (she was in a large pen).

These videos are about people and what people do. Animal rights should be about what fish and other creatures do to be themselves in nature, and not about them doing things humans like. You seem to be on a hunt for fish cuddling videos. Could you at last keep them in one thread, and not clutter up the what's new section with this wishful looking subject?

 

[elephantnose3334]

@elephantnose3334 I don't know what the fish is, but as noted before, it's in grave danger of a fungal or bacterial infection from being hand fed and petted, if it's done wrongly. I love animals and my puppy is sitting on my feet as I write here. I have petted cats, dogs, goats and even carefully petted a rhino one time. As a human, I love contact with other animals, and even the rhino seemed to appreciate my raising clouds of dust off her shoulder (she was in a large pen).

These videos are about people and what people do. Animal rights should be about what fish and other creatures do to be themselves in nature, and not about them doing things humans like. You seem to be on a hunt for fish cuddling videos. Could you at last keep them in one thread, and not clutter up the what's new section with this wishful looking subject?

Okay. I try not to clutter it up. I know about it. But I'm sorry for doing this.

 

[GaryE]

Okay. I try not to clutter it up. I know about it. But I'm sorry for doing this.

Ah, just sit down with a danio on your knee and don't worry. If you can find its ears, scruff them!

 

[elephantnose3334]

Ah, just sit down with a danio on your knee and don't worry. If you can find its ears, scruff them!

Aw, it wants pets in the body. Be gentle though, they are fast fish and hard to get.