Betta fish learned to jump through hoops! His mom, our producer Carolina, talked to the guy who started the whole fish training craze
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00:00I knew Katara was special. He would do a little butt wiggle every time I approached his tank.
00:06Hi Katara! Hi!
00:08He even recognized my hands and loved to be close.
00:12He loved following my finger and was curious about everything.
00:19I never thought a fish could be this smart and emotive.
00:23So I spent time with him every day, bonding and teaching him new tricks.
00:31Catch!
00:33Good boy!
00:35Catch!
00:37Good boy!
00:39I wanted to take his fish tricks to the next level.
00:42I searched online, tricks to teach your fish.
00:45And that's when I saw the greatest ad I have ever seen.
00:49So your fish does nothing.
00:51Until now.
00:53It was like this old 90's commercial with an entire kit for teaching your fish new tricks.
00:58The R2 Fish School Kit.
01:00Everything you need to train your fish to do amazing tricks.
01:04I look at the dodo. I've seen so many animal videos.
01:07But this is the best video I have ever seen.
01:11I have so many questions. I have to reach out.
01:14Hi, I'm Dean Pomerleau, Chief Fish Trainer here at Fish School.
01:17I'm going to show my best fish, Comet, doing some of his tricks.
01:21The whole thing started when my kids wanted a pet.
01:26And they really wanted a dog.
01:28They weren't thrilled with a fish.
01:31And so we decided, on a whim really, to try and train them.
01:37Fish are a lot more intelligent than people give them credit for.
01:41When I would walk into the room, they would come over to the edge of the tank.
01:47There was very little information about fish intelligence at the time.
01:52So we were quite surprised.
01:55My goldfish, Albert Einstein, is a Guinness World Record holder.
01:59So of the 2007 Guinness World Record book, that's Albert Einstein there, you can see.
02:06I don't know if you know this, but there's actually a lot of people on Instagram that use your kits.
02:10No, I did not know that.
02:12There's actually this thing called the Bait Olympics, where a lot of bait fish compete.
02:16And this is my little plaque.
02:18Oh, cool.
02:19You have to be a judge.
02:21You're literally like a legend in the fish community.
02:23I love the idea that many people out there have the kit and have used it to train their fish.
02:27It's fun for the fish, too.
02:29It makes their lives more interesting.
02:32I ended up getting the kit for my birthday and set it up for my new little guy, Napoleon,
02:37awaiting many wonderful memories ahead of us.