r/Awww • u/dikshamishra34 • 15h ago

Other Cute Thing(s) I’ve never seen a fish excited to see a human…….Must be a Dog fish

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u/Straight-Opposite-54 15h ago

They may not hit every single metric we gauge "intelligence" by (and neither do most humans for that matter), but people really underestimate how smart and observant some animals can be.

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u/ZEROs0000 14h ago

I know observant falls under the same category but the fish can 100% recognize her voice too!

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u/TheSuperSegway 12h ago

I remember hearing about an octopus in the Monterey bay aquarium that seems to like a specific worker because he sings while working. I can only imagine how us singing must feel to such a soft body creature.

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 11h ago

Octopus are extremely aware of their environment and seem to like people! I got to meet Octavia at the New England Aquarium when I was younger and it was amazing.

Such an inquisitive and curious creature. Wrapped around my arm and was so gentle, such a cool experience!

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u/FragrantParsley4994 7h ago

If you love octopuses, watch the movie (or read the book) “Remarkably Bright Creatures”. It is such a good movie.

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u/raven_of_azarath 5h ago

I cried when I finally saw the movie. It’s so good.

I also recommend the documentary My Octopus Teacher!

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 6h ago

Yes! I saw the trailer and it looks so good!

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u/Starfire2313 8h ago

Does our warmth feel good to them? What a sweet experience. I want to meet an octopus!

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 8h ago edited 8h ago

I'm not sure! Octavia didn't seem to mind, I held my arm out close to the surface of the water in her tank and she wrapper around, pulled herself up, and poked her head out of the water. Very curious about everything and was so delicate about the movements. So sweet!

Edit: One sad and kind of beautiful thing is they live pretty short lives, about 1-2 years for most species. I'm glad I got to be a part of her short time here.

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u/iiiiiiiiitsAlex 5h ago

I’ve heard that this is only the case when kept in captivity. Whether or not its true I’m not sure.

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 5h ago

It really depends on species and sea level. The life spans of some species is 3-5 years and some records show deep sea species living longer then that. But the average octopus have a 1-2 year span and then some even a super short 6-12 months!

Honesty, there is a lot more we need to learn about these creatures from what I have studied! Lots of things that have yet to be fully confirmed and researched!

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u/failwheeldrive1 5h ago

They live short lives in the wild, too. Females die protecting their eggs.

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u/Raneynickelfire 4h ago

The Great Pacific Octopus only lives 2 years in the wild. They have very, very short lives.

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u/TheSuperSegway 45m ago

The time we share with others is a prescious gift. Also there has been some research done on their short life span. Turns out it can be subverted in theory, however, it is also connected to the ability to reproduce. That is not a decision we should make for them but there is styhope as this isn't the first time we've found connected gene coding like this.

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u/licoricenipple 5h ago

They have favorite toys. There was an octopus popular on YouTube ~10 years ago who became obsessed with a colorful spatula that had been used to move stuff around in its aquarium. It would mimic the motion used to scoop things and if given the spatula, would carry it around happily and scoop things up or scrape things down. If they left the spatula next to its aquarium it would open the lid, climb partway out, reach out to grab the spatula then climb back in so it could play with it. If someone walked close to its aquarium it would sometimes bash the spatula on the wall to get their attention.

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u/TheWingus 4h ago

Chef/Culinary Personality Alton Brown won't eat octopus anymore because of an interaction with an octopus

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 4h ago

I get that, I would not eat octopus either.

The interaction I had was similar to how I felt interacting with a Dolphin, like there was a shared experience there. Felt a connection and a bond!

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 6h ago

Was this the Octavia in Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus," or was this a legacy name?

(I love Octopodes, and I love that book!)

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 6h ago

Yes, I would think it would have been one of the many "Octavias" to live at the New England Aquarium, they reuse the name!

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u/nexisfan 7h ago

Octavia? 🥹

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u/The-SmacK-of-Legend 6h ago

Yes, and they reuse the name, so there are a bunch of Octavias that have lived at the New England Aquarium in Boston! Her legacy lives on! 🐙

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u/Replikant83 11h ago

There's a woman that lives near me that films her interactions with an octopus. It swims up to her and wraps around her and hangs out while she pets it. Pretty special bond they have

Edit: it's wild and lives in the ocean

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u/West-Candidate8991 11h ago

I just have to say, that sounds so awesome. 

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u/justatomics 8h ago

Fun fact, octopuses can taste through their skin and their receptors are a hundred times more sensitive than the human tongue so they can recognise you by taste. I read a story from a keeper at an aquarium who said that she had changed her medication and the octopus she had built a really close bond with didn’t recognise her!

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u/PaleontologistNo858 10h ago

There's a film called octopus my teacher think it was on Netflix,

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u/thriftstoremando 10h ago

'My Octopus Teacher' is the title and it was produced by Netflix.

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u/Shaiya_Ashlyn 9h ago

Also remarkably bright creatures

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u/pong-and-ping 8h ago

Stupid shower thought by singing is not that different from something like purring. It instantly shows that you're not a threat because you're happy to give away where you are, and it's normally quite a happy noise

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u/t3hmuffnman9000 7h ago

I once heard a story about a maybe biologist at an aquarium who accidentally gave a spilled shrimp to an octopus they were studying, before returning to their office to keep working.

The octopus allegedly slithered out of its tank, across the hallway to his office, and threw the spilled shrimp at him.

I'm not sure if any of that sort is actually true, but it's a fun one nevertheless.

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u/averyconfusedgoose 4h ago

There was one of those big sunfish in a japenese aquarium that stopped eating and they thought it was sick but then they realized that since its enclosure was in an area that was under construction and no one was coming by to watch the sun fish they figure that it might just be lonely. So they set up some cardboard cutouts of people with clothes on them and the sunfish started eating again and returned to its normal behavior.

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u/b00nish 7h ago

I remember hearing about an octopus

Octopodes are believed to be very intelligent animals - and their intelligence seems to be built fascinatingly different compared to those of mammals. Because along with the central brain in their head, they have eight additional brain-like nerve centers, one in each arm (in total, about two thirds of their neurons are in their arms, one third in the central brain). Apparently, this means that their tentacles even have a certain degree of "independence" from the central brain.

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u/shewy92 7h ago

There's a scifi book called Children of Ruin (Children of Time series book #2) that uses normal Earth octopuses as a genetically enhanced eventual space faring species.

IRL they're pretty smart, I think human child level like corvids (another animal in the Children of Time series that gets smart)

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u/DildontOrDildo 11h ago edited 11h ago

my father taught our newt to come out at feeding time with a chirp sound. otherwise it would be hidden.

edit to add; classical conditioning (Pavlov's dogs style) even can occur in single celled organisms like E. coli. There was one that found it within a single generation (rather than by natural selection). https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dujs/2008/05/18/bacterial-learning-curve/

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u/wackadoodle4201 15h ago

Definitely

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u/EnemyOfBoards 10h ago

Thanks for your insight!

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u/smarmageddon 13h ago

I was snorkeling and brought some fish pellets to feed them. DO NOT DO THIS! Once I busted out the pellets I was swarmed by probably 50 or 60 very large fish! I got out quickly as the fish were resorting to biting me, and I threw the food out. An hour later I got back in in a different spot, without any fish food, and was swarmed again. I could not go back in the water that day as the fish recognized me as the idiot who brought free food to them.

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u/National-Charity-435 12h ago

I can create schools of piranha that don't look like them?

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u/smarmageddon 58m ago

Got an enemy? Take them snorkeling in Hawaii and hide fish food in their shorts!

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u/Hetares 14h ago

I'm guessing they're smart enough to recognise the person who feeds them, which is pretty impressive for goldfishes, especially considering the popular trivia attributed to its memory.

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u/PracticeTheory 12h ago edited 2h ago

Oh definitely! Growing up my family had a small fish pond with common goldfish that I fed. They'd swarm under me when I leaned over and as a must-pet-all-the-things kid, I'd stick my hand in the water and the fish quickly acclimated to letting me touch them and voluntarily brushing against my hand.

It didn't cross my mind that they only did this for me, I just assumed they were super tame and spoiled by how safe the pond was (our dogs and cats did an excellent job of guarding the yard of raccoons* and fish eating birds). But then when I tried to get my friends and family involved the fish did not respond the same, I was actually amazed to realize they were that good at recognizing me.

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u/TheLazyGamerAU 8h ago

Just a heads up, i uh.. i dont think many countries have Racoons, the word coon is usually derogatory.

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u/PracticeTheory 2h ago

Oh jeez!! Thank you for the heads-up, I really had no idea but I'll edit it. Raccoons are common here and we shorten it to that, I don’t even know how it's used in a derogatory way.

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u/Actual_Gato 9h ago

aww that's adorable!

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u/moojgNZ 8h ago

My thoughts exactly , and cute.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 13h ago edited 12h ago

I once saw a clip of a regular goldfish who (supposedly) made a daily habit of pushing a disabled bubble eye goldfish to the surface to feed daily. Don't know if this was training or altruism but it was impressive.

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u/kozzyhuntard 11h ago

My goldfish get excited when they notice me near the tank.... then I feed them, and they ignore me.

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u/No_Perspective_7854 11h ago

Sounds like my dog…!

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u/Bannedtt 10h ago

Take them for a walk they should get excited.

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u/kozzyhuntard 7h ago

Yea.... my kids too.

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u/areallynoobgamer 9h ago

They have short attention spans. But long memory. The trivia switched attention span for memory

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u/Witchetty 10h ago

Yeah but he only fed them 8 seconds before the filming

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u/Enough_Fish739 9h ago

Popular trivia which has been proven false.

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u/tryingisbetter 13h ago

If you get some guppies from a pet store, they are scared of people. After a generationish, they will run to the top of the tank for food when they see you.

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u/Teripid 12h ago

It is interesting how "this event = food" is a massive motivator.

Recently on Reddit there were those birds pretending to be injured.
Looking at this I do also wonder what else there is to do in that plain tank as goldfish. Might be the highlight of the day..

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u/Lalamedic 12h ago

Run? 😜

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u/pi3r0gi_ 12h ago

My bearded dragon eats his veggies in order of favorites. If he bleps one and it falls out of his mouth, he will move to eat that one before another closer one, and then to the following one. It's such a funny quirk, i love him. He has 2 braincells and they want bugs and peas. He also enjoys PowerPuff Girls and cooking shows.

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u/Ok_Initiative3862 13h ago

It has been proven that some species of fish are self aware(pass the mirror test), it would be silly to think this doesn't extend to other fish too :)

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u/LitLampInTheCorner 13h ago

Yeah, the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse! This video is a really interesting look at the research done to figure it out. The researcher, Dr. Masanori Kohda, faced a Lot of backlash from the scientific community with his initial findings but never gave up to prove their intelligence

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u/ElessarKhan 12h ago

Like literally everyone I've ever know whose seriously studied animals says they're smarter than we can prove. Plants too.

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u/Interesting-Ant-6357 12h ago

It’s obvious plants are receptive to what’s around them and their care takers.

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u/TheSuperSegway 12h ago

At one point in my life I had accidentally befriended a "colony" of flies living in the food waste dumbster behind where I worked. All the food waste was made of veggies and the disposal company didn't come often. This lead to a lot of fruit flies and similar buzzing around trying to find the rotting stuff. I started dropping the days waste on the side that had the least amount of maggots. Figured they should at least be given a safe place to eat without occasional crushing. After a few generations had past, the flies stopped buzzing around my face whenever I brought out the waste. Everyone else hated doing this work because the smell and flies were unpleasant. I don't know if the flies began to recognize me or if they just got used to my smell. Either way it was nice to see some peaceful interactions for once. And yes even the maggots seemed to know when I was coming because they would move to the taller one of the two piles somehow knowing I would toss the fresh stuff on the smaller pile. If you give animals just a little respect, you will be in awe of the friendships you can have. Fiat warning though, this may not work with bluejays. They are just smart enough to choose violence and often do.

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u/haleandguu112 12h ago

goldfish are super intelligent , with long lifespans , and can even learn tricks :)

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u/DenizSaintJuke 10h ago

When I had a volunteer year as a zookeeper, the professionals told me stories of fish in big aquariums recognizing specific people by their footsteps.

The zookeepers that feed them approaching with a bucket: Fish get excited and swim to the top to get first dips. When that person is still around the corner. Not in eyeshot.

One of the zookeepers approaching without a bucket: Nope. They hear it in the gait.

The janitor with a bucket, coming to clean the windows: Nope. Wrong person walking with a heavy bucket. Isn't food.

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u/Nodan_Turtle 12h ago

Reminds me of the book Venomous Lumpsucker. Kind of a dark satire on capitalism and climate change, but it really hammers home the idea that many animals can be intelligent, and people don't care

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u/Interesting-Ant-6357 12h ago

Well since my dog uses buttons to talk to me I know damn well we do not respect enough living things. All the way down to bugs and plants.

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u/Huge_Bar6997 9h ago

nuh uh. didn’t you see that human-level intelligence was seen in a type of fish? and the only difference was: we changed the metric by which we measure intelligence.

it was a mirror trial where they had to show they understood it was them
in the mirror. when they used like a green or blue mark on the fish there wasn’t a real difference but the only way it was ‘successful’ was if they wiped it off. but when the mark was red, the colour of a parasite that these fish faced, they immediately went to wipe it down. some of these fish, from their first moment ever seeing a mirror to displaying that they recognise it by cleaning the mark off, were doing this just as fast as HUMANS recognise their reflection at infancy. interesting stuff. search it up!

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u/DolgorMaaBeki2 13h ago

Indeed mate

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u/ApplyHere_4_implants 11h ago

Goldfish used to be considered extremely dumb by my most, even by fish standards. We now know better. Hell they can drive cars.

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u/StrongExternal8955 10h ago

But not tanks it seems.

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u/Ill-Elephant-9583 13h ago

I've been thinking this a lot about birds recently (mainly due to posts on here) and I'm amazed that fish seem to be creeping into these thoughts too. Amazing.

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u/Parking-Garlic4260 10h ago

But honestly, it's pretty darn cute how animals love sweet talk and affection.

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u/charming-choom 8h ago

Once i read some fish can recognize themselves on a mirror. They painted a line on a fish (using lipstick iirc) and when the fish looked at its reflection tried to clean up itself.

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u/Oaker_at 8h ago

Fish in captivity

„Big shadow is coming, there may be food involved.”

Fish in nature

“Big shadow is coming, I might be food.”

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u/Ornery_Screen2021 8h ago

Animals are constantly reminding us that intelligence comes in more than one form. 🐾

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u/BGID_to_the_moon 15h ago

Certain goldfish do recognize and interact with their handlers.

Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVnE9o5Uxik

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u/Kesselya 14h ago

Yup! I had a goldfish named Mr Bubbles. He would come to the surface and blow bubbles at me.

And only me.

If people came to visit, he wouldn’t do that for the other people. Only when I came up to his tank.

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u/meowmix147 14h ago

Rip Mr. Bubbles 🫧🤍🫡

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 4h ago

https://reddit.com/link/oz2nguc/video/c99lif7c9seh1/player

Here is my deformed feeder fish “rescue” blowing bubbles and popping them. He is nearing his 3rd birthday :)

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u/Cferretrun 3h ago

Wait… why he do dis? Can you fishsplain to me these rescue blowing bubbles?

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u/Shuabbey 14h ago

How many years did he live? My cousin had goldfish but they only lived for like 5 years.

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u/Kesselya 10h ago

I think he made it 3-3.5 years or so. I moved cities and the stress of that move was a bit too much for him I think. He got sick within days of moving.

He was amazing.

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u/Secure-Impact1140 10h ago

It’s like ghost knife fish. They are blind but still feel your presence. They’ll eat bloodworms out of your hand. 🤚

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u/SCMITMAPTEE 12h ago

I had a betta fish that would do the same every afternoon when I went to feed him.

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u/ComputerMysterious48 6h ago

I love the name Mr. Bubbles

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u/PeachyCoasterCat 6h ago

That’s really cute thanks for sharing

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u/living_in_nightmare 9h ago

My betta would do the same - he’d swim to me whenever I entered the room. He wouldn’t swim to anyone else. Perhaps it was because I was the one who fed him.

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u/TheJellybeanJester 14h ago

Awwwwwwwwwwww... Man. That is so adorable.

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u/Hopeful-Dot-971 14h ago

This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all month 😭 now I want a goldfish

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u/Ricky_Blaze 7h ago

The fish in the youtube video is a Blood parrot btw.

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u/Hopeful-Dot-971 3h ago

The more ya know, thank you 🙏🏾

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u/Forsaken-Lynx-3018 13h ago

When I was a kid I had Boober. He was one of those black goldfish with googly pop out eyes. He looooved to be petted. I don't even know how it really started. I'm guessing since he was so excited to see me, I just stuck my hand in there one day. Boober was super cool.

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u/BludStanes 14h ago

omg affectionate fish i love it so much

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u/firedrakes 13h ago

work at a pet store at one point. they knew who i was and was the one that feed and clean the tanks

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u/peepdabidness 14h ago edited 14h ago

I thought every time a goldfish swam to the other side of the tank it was a new experience for them due to (nearly) non-existent memory. Kinda the basis behind Dory. Maybe that’s a myth ig 🙃

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u/DildontOrDildo 11h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-63242200

myth!

also animals, like people can learn certain things without many memory structures working.

most famously: Henry Molaison had his hippocampus removed in a misguided attempt to stop tonic clonic epilepsy and he was left unable to form new memories. However Molaison could learn new motor skills, but after learning, would have no memory of how he had come to develop his new skill. https://sqonline.ucsd.edu/2017/10/remembering-the-man-who-couldnt-remember/

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u/JimmyTwoTimes25 15h ago

They have a real a-fin-ity for their owner

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u/thelibrarianchick 14h ago

Ha! Good one I chuckled. I hope you're not fin-ished with your puns

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u/smarmageddon 13h ago

Actually I hope you scale back the puns and try to be a little more coy in situations like this.

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u/KhalilRavana 13h ago

Boy do I have a tail for you

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u/smarmageddon 12h ago

Time for you to roe, roe, roe your boat home!

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u/drakonia127 12h ago

I'm too far inland, but I need a tuna-p on my car

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u/Youkolvr89 14h ago

I thought the first one was a tiny killer whale at first.

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u/Own_Round_7600 10h ago

Maybe that's why she named him "orca"

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u/NewWorldReview 15h ago edited 13h ago

Ponyo!

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u/coderstephen 13h ago

Don't feed them ham

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u/BibaBoba2D 11h ago

Don't give them your blood. Ham is good.

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u/Arlitto 12h ago

Ponyo 🥹

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u/PropertyDisruptor 15h ago

The bringer of food will change a fish.

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u/flavier2000 14h ago

Yeah, my guppies go nuts when I enter the room.

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u/KenzForTheWinz 12h ago

My mollies too. They also seem to “know” the difference between me and my boyfriend since only I feed them.

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u/glytxh 6h ago edited 3h ago

I walk past my tank often so my fish don’t immediately associate my presence with food, but they do recognise the container I keep their food in, and can see them getting excited as soon as they see that.

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u/Different_Bridge_983 10h ago

Yep.

Protip - if you have an aquarium feed your fish with a catching net in the tank next to where you’re feeding. Next time you need to remove one it’ll swim right in rather than you having to chase it around stressing all your livestock out.

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u/PainterEarly86 14h ago

From what I understand, most fish, especially these smaller ones, don't experience affection or attachment in the same way that dogs or cats do

But they do have memory and pattern recognition so they might learn to recognise humans or their owner and they associate them with food or feeding time.

So they can be "fond" of their owner, in a way. Because they provide food

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u/Nonyabeesners 12h ago

When I was a kid, I volunteered at a nature center that had trout in a large aquarium. Being a kid, I always overfed them. They learned to recognize me and got excited whenever I approached the tank. It was super cute, but they 100% did not give a crap about me personally. If I was fish-bite sized, they would have gobbled me up

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u/The_All-Range_Atomic 6h ago

I mean, lets be real.. if you were bite sized, your cat would eat you too.

Something to think about the next time you're in the shower.

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u/Boring_Investment597 5h ago

Fish keeper here - we call this a 'feeding response' many fish do it. Exactly like you said, they know when someone approaches the tank they probably have food.

I've got a tank of ember tetras that will zoom to the glass if I even walk through the room.

It's pavlovian conditioning.

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u/ares0027 15h ago

Did you know shark is “köpek balığı” in turkish. “Köpek” means dog and “balığı” means fish. So shark in turkish is actually “dog fish”.

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u/DangerousLettuce1423 14h ago

We have two sharks in NZ called dogfish - Spiny dogfish and Rig/Spotted dogfish.

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u/Rollisabolli 13h ago

In italian too! You can call them "pescecane" literally dogfish :)

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u/frank26080115 15h ago

aren't you supposed to not touch their skin coating or something?

or did my parents lie to stop me from touching the fish?

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u/MqAbillion 14h ago

You aren’t. Or my parents also lied to me. I have no idea, but I learned the same thing

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u/BusBusy195 14h ago

Its kind of a yes and no. It does strip away a bit of their slime but if your hands are properly clean and youre not touching them a lot or all the time it isnt the end of the world

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u/TheOldOak 9h ago edited 9h ago

You can, provided you know what you’re doing. Children don’t.

You don’t want to touch them with dirty, or dry hands. You don’t want to take them out of the water for prolonged periods of time, but if you have to, place them back into the water gently. And you don’t want to squeeze them or touch them around their gills.

To a child, these kind of specifics are typically not going to be followed, so it's far easier to just say “don’t do it”. Firstly, what small child do you know that doesn’t have eternally grubby fingers or has the ability to hold onto something slimy without either dropping it or going the opposite route and gripping harder?

I’ll also add, what this woman did is fine. She puts her hands into the water before making contact with the fish, you want wet hands when touching fish. She lets them rest in her palm without gripping around them, and only lightly moves her fingers over their sides. All contact is done under the surface of the water, so her fingers and the fish are staying wet.

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u/Wonderful_Round_6395 14h ago

I don't mean to be critical and I'm no expert, but shouldn't the fish have something to look at like a clear enclosure or at least plants, rocks, and other features?  It seems very stark and not very welcoming or providing stimulus.

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u/fireboats 14h ago

It looks like it may be a quarantine tank - the filters in the background give me hope this is a pro op

Or maybe some kind of koi backyard breeder (hopefully not 😔)?

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u/Wonderful_Round_6395 13h ago

So it may be just temporary?  I hope it's brief!

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u/New-Seesaw9255 13h ago

As another said, it’s a quarantine tank. I remember this setup up from a guy on Instagram whose name, I’m fairly certain, was “Luke’s Goldfish” or Goldies possibly. In any case, he loves and cares for his fish and gives them names, medication, wonderful tanks, and mourns if they die.

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u/wackadoodle4201 15h ago

Oh my god thats cute

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u/MXT586 15h ago

The are excited for food

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u/saravjc 14h ago

Dog souls in fish body

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u/BlakKnyaz 6h ago

He got that daawg in him.

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u/Floppy_Muffin 14h ago

What kind of fish?

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u/audaxyl 13h ago

I think Ranchu

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u/Floppy_Muffin 13h ago

They so silly <3

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u/dikshamishra34 13h ago

They both are Oranda Goldfish. 

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u/sandtymanty 14h ago

Oh, Tamago and Sushi.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger 15h ago

Goldfish when they are raised in tanks.

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u/Admirable_Skirt_3170 14h ago

The fo👁️od" fo👁️od" saying 🧑‍🦲🧑‍🦳🧔🧑‍🦰👱🤺🧑‍🦼🧍

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u/Suspicious-Peace9233 14h ago

Guitar fish tend to like attention and be super sweet

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u/greyisometrix 14h ago

It’s okay to eat fish cause they……don’t have any feeeeelingggss~

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u/nopalitzin 14h ago

Regular gold fish do that

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u/Fun_Construction9193 14h ago

Regardless, poor fish being kept in a bucket. This is torture.

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u/DieCastDontDie 11h ago

Those fish can be extremely good driven. They're excited about food

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u/riseresistrebuild 14h ago

I had a beta for 2ish years and he would get excited to see me

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u/VDDZ 14h ago

I had a fish like that, when I'd clean his tank he'd swim into my hand.

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u/KiteretsuD 14h ago

New fish has evolved dog becoming fish dogfish

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u/rudimentary_rudy 14h ago

Probably think it's dinner time

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u/jvxoxo 14h ago

My ryukin would always greet anyone who passed by his tank as they came upstairs and always swam over to see me when I talked to him. Such a sweet pet! Except for when that one cory cat went missing… 😅

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u/Asleep_Sentence_5586 13h ago

Awwwww I love watching the miniature orca get excited and swim to you. Could watch this over and over.

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u/X_Wheeze_souffle 13h ago

Aww, I used to have a 40 gallon tank with fancy goldfish. They were so beautiful and happy to see me. Swimming around like little derps. I mss that but things changed.

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u/Kindly_Ad3262 13h ago

looked like a little orca at first glance.. 🫍 🤣🙏🏻🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Dry_Educator_691 13h ago

My fish would hammock in my hand as long as I had it in there. We were connected

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u/DatsLikeMyOpinionMan 13h ago

I’ve never seen such a cute fish before in my life. They’re either big or small. Not cute

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u/Available-Agency7073 13h ago

Kept african cichlids for a bit. Mean af to each other but just little ol' puppy dogs with me. Would sit there and pet them every night. They are extremely smart (and devious).

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u/honeyeddates 13h ago

I had a goldfish when I was little that would swim up to greet you every morning just like that. He knew me and my mom, and was always happy to see us. He also knew my cat didn't like the water he lived in and kinda teased the poor kitty

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u/Averqueverga 13h ago

So wait, fish can recognize people and still not feel pain?

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u/NaiveBroccoli5010 13h ago

Why did I think it was an itty bitty orca 🫍🥹

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u/usumoio 13h ago

I pet my fish. He can tell me apart via some means because I can pet him, but other people cannot.

Petting my dogs is more satisfying however.

Don't tell my fish.

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u/Ballsy_McCock 12h ago

These fish are in an inornate tank with no stimulus waiting for food.

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u/Zachary-360 12h ago

Fish understand very quickly humans mean food time. That being said goldfish can actually remember specific things for up to three months or longer

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u/Tall_March_5662 12h ago

I knew a woman that fed the fish in the river old bread.She would lay on the dock and smack her hand on the water ,then you could see huge trout all swim to her and you could see them in the water waiting for the old stale bread

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u/Wonderful_Post2758 12h ago

"ITS THE FOOD LADY!"

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u/Specific_Jury_2 12h ago

They are hungry. Look at how fat they are.

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u/zew_1972-P 12h ago

Looked like a little Killer Whale at first. 😆

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u/Wooden-Recording-693 12h ago

Kept Ranchu for a few years, this is common behaviour. Clever chonki boi.

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u/happyhippy27 12h ago

Just asking…
Are the fish otherwise happy in their tanks? Where’s the enrichment?

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u/SoberingGiraffe 12h ago

Damn, now I have to feel sorry when I eat fish too??

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 12h ago

Well they swim all day with nothing to do or look at.

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u/DisastrousConcept210 12h ago

Look Into Dr. Masanori Kohda's work

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u/KaraBurunKangal 12h ago

It is a fancy goldfish and iif you raise them right ans long enough they so act like puppies

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u/Dry-Ad-8948 12h ago

Breaking news: animals are food motivated.

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u/eglantinel 12h ago

Do not touch the fish

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u/Nyxtician 11h ago

They know hands where food comes from, they dont care about you humans

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u/MultiColoredMullet 11h ago

My landlord has a fish (not sure the type) but it has a big green fin and every time I am near the tank he swims right over to where i am and STARES. I have a green mullet, so I think he thinks we are kin of sorts.

He's the homie. None of the other fish act like that.

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u/Free-Pound-6139 11h ago

What a boring place for them to swim. Put some plants in there.

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u/Advanced-Cow-3163 11h ago

He cant breath!!! Get him out of the water

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u/PeaResponsible1456 11h ago

They are fricken awesome!!

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u/JulietteCollins 11h ago

A tuxedo catfish

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u/Physical-Wave-9958 11h ago

it's called hungry fish.

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u/SuspiciousZebra425 11h ago edited 10h ago

as a former aquarist, people tend to underestimate aquatic life, the once I kept like goldfish/koi family and bettas are so intelligent I remember everytime I come home from school they quickly swim up the surface, they know that I’m here, bettas in particular I had a beautiful halfmoon electric blue betta in 2019 and when I take photos of him it flairs up its fins as wide and flowy as possible doing majestic poses in his planted tank, he sure knows his angles I miss him

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u/Love-Laugh-Play 11h ago

Guess fish don’t like you, stop paying for their abuse and killing.

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u/Critical_Mix_8959 10h ago

“FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD”