Betta Ping-Pong Training - Roosevelt

This is my oldest Betta splendens, a female veiltail named Roosevelt, in her third training session with the ping-pong ball. For now, I'm just teaching her to push it. As you can see, she's caught on pretty quickly. Later on, I might get her to move it in a specific direction or through something. We'll see.

Most of the video will be her approaching the ping-pong ball, bumping or pushing it, and me giving her a reward of BettaMin flakes.

The video is set to traditional-style Thai music, since Bettas are native to Thailand and Cambodia.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Betta
• splendens
• aquatic
• fresh
• water
• freshwater
• aquarium
• fish
• Roosevelt
• ping-pong
• ping
• pong
• push
• training

[cmp586]

heres a tip if the betta doesnt react to the white ping pong ball try differant colors some bettas like differant colors more then others

[Caldella]

Pretty good advice - so long as the color's the ping-pong itself, and not some sort of ink or paint that could mess up the water. Make sure the Betta doesn't take the bright coloration as a threat, either. =D Stress is never a good training tool!

[liddochaos]

dude that is awesome can u teach me how to make it train and get stronger do u have aim or msn?

[Caldella]

It's actually a simple food response just like training a puppy. The first round, I just rewarded her for touching the ping-pong ball. I started with that again the second time, slowly moving to just rewarding when she bumped or pushed it. by this third time, I only rewarded if she bumped it. Bettas are very intelligent and learn things like this quickly.

[tommyjude6666]

i agree with disturb not clear at all.

[califaa12]

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[disturbedme5]

I couldn't even really tell if the fish was playing with it or not because the camera was so far away from the tank.