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Well 4 days after his move to his nice new "pond" my goldfish is still freaking out everytime I come close to the tank. He's eating and otherwise acting normal, but won't come near me @all...he used to nibble peas right out of my hand and generally get in the way when I was trying to do tank maintenence.

Anyone have ideas what might be stressing him out, or what I can do to make it up to him ?.
T'anks in advance.

^_^

I wouldn't worry about it Babel, 4 days after a rough move is nothing. It took the goldfish in my old pond a month and a half to even tell I was the food guy. My theory is that your goldfish used to be able to see you coming through the glass and he would know it was food time and it was safe, now he's in an opaque box and doesnt really know what you look like from way down there and he has to identify you with other senses. Fish see left and right much better then they do up and down. He will eventually come back to being your best buddy, all he needs is time.

[span class="edited"][Edited by john.stone 2004-07-01 05:49][/span]

T'anks John
You were right, he seemed a little less timid this morning. I made sure he saw that bright red food cap that I always use when adding food to the tank, I think he recognized that .

Didn't know they had better vision one way over the other.

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i asked my friend what he did when this happened to him he said just to spend as much time as you could with him/her it helps he said when getting moved otherwise just time!