Shake It! Fish shakes on cue
592 views · Published 17 August 2013 · 1:58 · Indexed 11 October 2026
Channel: Born to Behave · 2013 · Pets & Animals
Unedited training session with Erasmus the fish. Cue: wand slowly lowers. Behavior: fish does a dominance shake. I trained this behavior by catching my fish shaking, marking the shake with a flashlight, and immediately giving him a treat. Once he shook for me reliably on purpose, I added the wand as a cue and only rewarded shakes when the wand was present. Soon, he learned to shake whenever I presented him with a slowly lowered wand.
