Ok, not a fish .. but my fully aquatic African Clawed Frogs are the most sociable. They eat from my hands.. well, they'd eat from anything... They swim around my arms and in between my fingers when I'm cleaning the tank... they even look toward me and rapidly bring their "hands" to their faces indicating that they want to eat!
most social fish
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nothing beats freshwater stingrays. they are intelligent and have adorable and very social personalities. only catch is they are expensive and need a massive tank.
You know how, in the wild, gouramis can spit at the surface of the water to catch bugs? Well, my first fish was an aging, kinda sickly gold gourami whom I inherited from a neighbor. The fish and I had this system, where I would hold a dried bloodworm over the surface of the water, and the gourami would spit at it a few times, and then I'd lower it to the surface so the gourami could grab it and eat it. It got to the point where the gourami would just start spitting every time it saw me approach the tank. 
Pretty cute. Kinda like it was saying, "Hey, let's play the worm game!"
Pretty cute. Kinda like it was saying, "Hey, let's play the worm game!"
My Oscar and Arowana both recognize me are both afraid of my mother, I don't know why, lol. She never touches the tank so they have no reason to be scared of her, but they are. The Oscar will go hide behind his rock while the aro tries to swim through the back wall of the tank even though he cant go anywhere.
They both run up to the front of the tank when they see me comming though and wiggle side to side in the same spot until I feed them. My oscar is a lot braver than the aro though. He lets me pet him when he's full and happy. My arowana on the other hand freaks out over the smallest thing and usually takes him about 30 min to calm down. I also had to install latches on the top of my tank to keep the arowana from knocking off the lid and jumping out like my first one did. They are very skittish and sometimes just curious, which unfortunately leads to their death most of the time.
They both run up to the front of the tank when they see me comming though and wiggle side to side in the same spot until I feed them. My oscar is a lot braver than the aro though. He lets me pet him when he's full and happy. My arowana on the other hand freaks out over the smallest thing and usually takes him about 30 min to calm down. I also had to install latches on the top of my tank to keep the arowana from knocking off the lid and jumping out like my first one did. They are very skittish and sometimes just curious, which unfortunately leads to their death most of the time.
You know how, in the wild, gouramis can spit at the surface of the water to catch bugs? Well, my first fish was an aging, kinda sickly gold gourami whom I inherited from a neighbor. The fish and I had this system, where I would hold a dried bloodworm over the surface of the water, and the gourami would spit at it a few times, and then I'd lower it to the surface so the gourami could grab it and eat it. It got to the point where the gourami would just start spitting every time it saw me approach the tank.
this sounds like an archerfish. can gouramis do this too?
My oscars are the most social, as well as my green terror. He loves to ham it up when I have my camera out lol. One of my large pleco's is also pretty social and lets me hand feed him at times. I think almost all my cichlids are pretty social as well as my dojo loach. Mollies are as well. Oh and my freshwater target puffer, he cracks me up as he hides all the time in this fake log and when I'm in the room he moves as close to the end of it as he can so he can "peek" at me which is why his name is "Peek a Boo"
My african knife fish is friendly when he thinks it's feeding time and follows me around the tank
My african knife fish is friendly when he thinks it's feeding time and follows me around the tank
