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i bet she’d like something like this. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00168A6DQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00168A6DQ&linkCode=as2&tag=speech2text-20 maybe try adding a new toy or get her a few and change them every few days.

It's a part of a fish training kit (the R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit I think) that I used when I was six and had goldfish. I keep the basketball floating in Nebula's tank (she sometimes boops it with her nose) as well as the tennis and soccer balls (though they sink).

If you really really want to get into it you can teach all sorts of tricks.

You can make your own hoops and rings to swim through or use something like this: R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_08E60038HHMEKG03S1YH?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Amazon has a cute kit called r2 fish school with hoops and target stick so you can drop a pellet the moment it goes through the hoop! R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_9RQG0EJZC0RK78D3MEBE

I've been really tempted to train my betta to swim through a hoop lol.

R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_K7VDWKJD0FCKR0F0Q1V5

This is a whole set available on Amazon to teach your goldfish tricks. I want to get it but I haven’t been able to justify the money for it yet.

I remember when I had this kit " https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_7AC9S19ZS48800R8ZMCV " and used it to train my goldfish, they seemed to really enjoy it and I got them really far into the tricks, like they loved going through the hoop

there's this https://www.amazon.com/R2-Fish-School-Complete-Training/dp/B00168A6DQ but if you look up information on how to train animals in general basically the only thing you need to be able to do is put tasty food in front of them and create an association.

Oh, cool, gotcha! Man, so many ideas... it'd be cool to have a 5 - 10 gallon betta fish tank. They're so curious about their surroundings and so colorful that I feel like they would keep a child's attention...

Or, if you had the space, a giant (like > 60 gallon) fancy goldfish tank. They're so peaceful to watch, and have great personalities. Plus, if you take care of them well, they live practically forever! And apparently can learn tricks

A friend of mine recently set up a 20 gallon long with some glofish for her daughter. It's pretty sweet - provided you're into the 'fake' look hahaha! For what it is, I think it looks neat, and her daughter is mesmerized.

The nice thing is that these fish are all pretty hardy :)

Oh man, good question.... I don't have specific answers, really, as much as some musings. I think it comes down to a few factors:

1) Many people do not believe goldfish are capable of feeling pain, or really even experiencing anything. In fact, there is a whole separate myth that goldfish have 3 second memories. (fun fact: there's a cute fish training kit available, that does prove that fish are capable of learned memory.)

2) It's iconic.

3) It has become a common source of misinformation. If someone learns, anecdotally, that someone they know kept goldfish in a bowl for awhile, then they are skeptical of learning new information about (i.e. that it's bad.) Because they already 'know' someone who was 'successful' at keeping one in a bowl. They become resistant to updating their knowledge of the subject.

4) Bowls are very specifically marketed for goldfish, or bettas. This leads to uninformed pet store employees to sell them to unsuspecting shoppers who haven't bothered to do additional research.

I don't know... I could go on and on. I agree, though, it is bewildering, and it is sad. I would love to know the origin of how it even got started in the first place

It came with the R2 Fish School :)

They've been trained to do tricks like any other animal. Probably using one of these.

There's a fish training kit on Amazon that has a bunch of balls.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fab_sOmzFbZHS6CYP

Highly recommend this training kit.

https://www.amazon.com/R2-Fish-School-Complete-Training/dp/B00168A6DQ

 

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It’s so funny! Goldfish Soccer and Tricks

It came with the R2 Fish School kit.

R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00168A6DQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fxcEFbFVQ8HSJ

You can do it too, with time and tools! I used one of these to train my last betta.

http://www.amazon.com/R2-Fish-School-Complete-Training/dp/B00168A6DQ