Training Lumpfish Behaviors

New England Aquarium trainer Lindsay has been working with a lumpfish she nicknamed blondie. This video shows some of the behaviors she has developed.
Learn more about lumpfish training by reading Lindsay's blogs:
www.neaq.org/education_and_act...
Footage taken by David Ives:
www.davidives.net
Song "Speechless" by Manolo Camp:
www.manolocamp.net/
found on www.opsound.org

[@skall1023]

my fish army will be ever growing. very beautiful, very powerful.

[@mrmarksteddybear]

Very Beautiful, Very Powerful

[@paultiplea]

Hello, fellow tik toker.

[@acapellaseto]

LMAOOO

[@mrmarksteddybear]

@@paultiplea Hi my tiktoker friend. lol

[@charlesman8722]

Very beautiful, very powerful

[@ribunny123]

I imagine health inspections for fish can be really stressful, training them to willingly go to a hand to be lifted out of the water is a very cool idea to allow a stress free way to keep up the fish's health.

[@lavendarblue360]

Wow wow! Blondie is amazing and so is Lindsay! She's really got her behaviors down. I especially love the swim into the hand! Great job. Love the video footage and music too.

[@garykeegan420]

Who says fish don't make great pets

[@NewEnglandAquarium]

@REALCougarsRmales lumpfish grow to be two feet long, which often makes them difficult to keep in home aquaria.

[@jariterbangvr]

is it still alive now?

[@matthewwhiting6191]

very beautiful, very poweful

[@ZsaZsaUmbra]

I trained a fathead Minnow and goldfish.

[@GachaThalochTheGreenWolfArcher]

Wow... You made lumpfish get to training! That so cool! 😎👍

[@oliboy12]

this is great , i work at a little aquarium and we recently had one of these given to us completely wild from a fisherman and it can do a few of these tricks already , i will post a video , but the wierd thing is we have about ten of these grown from farms that dont do any of these .

[@olavofilip]

amazing

[@valeriephelps8017]

Very beautiful, very powerful.

[@mobiusghost]

very beautiful. very powerful.

[@ya_boi_chrish]

it is so cool that rocks

[@Danawaii]

it's cute:D

[@munirkatul7147]

If she wasn't getting a reward (food), would she have been trained?

[@spaCEJET4]

smart fish

[@DavidCurryFilms]

It's a gherkin with fins!!

[@TheJudgingEye]

Are they available for private aquariums, too?

[@Aerosmithfan507]

this would be an awessome pet!

[@jeveuxlesoleil]

We used to find an uglier version of these things on summer vacay in Newfoundland. Don't look back fondly on the things the boys did to them. Not. At. All.

[@DemonDrug95]

it suppose to be named cutefish..

[@Madskillz434]

This is somewhat cute.

[@schip70]

cute

[@dumaznbum]

it looks more like it was tryin to bite urr finger off

[@terrorbite210]

Full of cutenes!:-)

[@TimJamesSaunders]

Why would you want to train a fish?

[@MQoS1587]

I think this fish is cute :|
not ugly
wtf why do people call them ugly :|

[@pinkpools]

Wow, it's following the hand that has food. WHO WOULDVE THOUGHT?

[@steffauslu]

Vonwegen Fische sind langweilig.

[@puppable]

lööpfish

[@kdchmln]

Fish eat by nipping. If it wanted to eat her finger it wouldn't have waited until there was food in her hand to do so.

[@finalman25]

cant teach an old fish new tricks and in other videos they look way worse

[@factoflifeadventures4355]

That Fish looks like something i would find in the toilet of a Mexican restaurant.

[@aoarashi3025]

Very beautiful, Very powerful.