thats sounds pretty fun lol think i might try it. he hides alot though, thats why i thought he'd be fine in a 4 footer. it's like he acts like a moray eel and slides from behind my filter when the pictus cat gets too close
You'll be sat there for ages to start with, and he'll come sniffing about but be too shy and you'll need to drop a few bits. Few weeks later though and he'll be straight out and up for dinner whenever you dangle it in. Great party trick getting your mates to feed him when they come round, the vast majority erm, how shall we say, get scared!
Word of warning though- they aren't good at chewing, and don't know when something is too big for them. You can either chop up little bits to start with, or hold on tight and let him rip off little bits. If you hold a whole prawn and panic and let go though, or let him take a bit that is too big, it will choke him. I had blade (my BGKF) refusing to give up a bit of prawn that was too big, lying on his back with his mouth open, gills out, looking really ill. In the end I took the bull by the horns and gave him a bit of a squeeze and he chucked it out, but I'm letting you know to take that seriously because that wasn't a fun fishkeeping moment!
Some fellow I met said that he'd then continued on the training by putting his other hand in the water under where he came, sort of scooping. After a while he'd been trained so that when he put just his cupped hand in, the fish came and lay in it waiting to be fed prawn lol. I never took it that far.
As it goes although I've only tried once blade hasn't wanted to hand feed in the new tank, which is 2.5 foot deep rather than 1.5 foot. He barely had to lift his head in the old tank though lol and I think he's still finding his bearings.
I'll youtube him at some point so you know what you're letting yourself in for!
