Handfeeding cories

[Elisabeth83]

I've got a few young swordies in my 55 gallon so lately I've been hand feeding them bloodworms with tweezers just so I know they are getting fed enough. The bigger swordies and platies are hogs and usually get most of the food.

Anyways this morning one of my peppers was swimming near the surface so I stuck the tweezer down and he took bloodworm from the tweezer..he did this a couple times. I thought it was just a fluke that he did this and it wouldn't happen again but just now I was feeding the fry with tweezers and lo and behold there he was again near the surface so I fed him somemore bloodworm.

I'm sure he knows now whats going on and knows this his only sure way of getting a good feed of bloodworms

Anyone else tried this before??

 

[fishdudein]

No, I have never tried this before. Since most all of my fish are kept in species tanks, I don't really worry about target feeding. But anytime you can get a fish to take food out of your hand (or tweezers, etc.), it is a cool thing. Thanks for sharing this neat experience with us!

 

[Fishy411]

most of my fish will eat out of my hand. I dont trust teh raphael or pictus's to not spike me though so they dont get hand fed. My green adn albino cories both hand feed

 

[Elisabeth83]

He did it again today...only the one pepper cory does it ..none of the others. He must be the smartest one or something

It is pretty neat...even my siamese algae eaters are becoming brave enough to try to take the bloodworm from the tweezers.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Fish that have taken live red worms from my hand include: discus, angels and one bold clown loach that once darted in front of a discus and grabbed the worm.

Have SAEs that try to eat the fine hairs on the back of my hands when I am working in the tank.