What fish do you own that let you pet/touch them??

My clowns play a game of tag with my hands... but they kinda nip at my fingers to see if I have any food. If I don't then they kinda just leave me alone. That's about it though... my mandarin has occasionally chilled in my hand for a brief moment, but even that was just in search of food.
 
My powder brown, and female clowns swim around my arm like crazy any time its in the tank, and they will swim into my hand. And when I go to do a re-aqua scape and pull my fish out of the tank, they have no problems with the net.
 
I had a Six-lined Soapfish (Grammistes sexlineatus) many years ago that was tame enough to let me pet and hold it in the water. It has a velvety soft feel. It allowed anyone to pet and touch it - many people thought it had a preference for the attention of females!
It never released any toxins during all this attention, so it must have been enjoying it.

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The moment my hand goes into my tank my green chromis are all over it. They rub against my hand and bite me if i dont give them attention.
 
The only fish I ever owned that liked to interact with me was a Fresh Water Oscar.

He'd swim around my arm and rub up against it when I was cleaning his tank.
 
We had a cleaner wrasse in our 300 at the LFS I work at that would come and swim/rest between my fingers or in the palm of my hand between the gravel vac when I was doing water changes. They are the softest feeling fish I have ever felt!!
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12136115#post12136115 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dante_JoseCuerv
my mandarin has occasionally chilled in my hand for a brief moment, but even that was just in search of food.
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My mandarin will check out my hand looking for food also. Once Larry is satisfied (his name is Larry after leisure suit Larry) he's not going to get anything to eat he will sit on a rock to supervise. I have had him eat a little bit of Artic-pods out of my hand before.
 
Not the best shots by any means. Holding fish in my right hand and shooting with the left. :p

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my fox face was real friendly he seemed to love to eat out of my fingers and i would gently stroke his side a little folish i know be he never rasied his fin or spines in defense unless a stranger was at the tank then look out he was ready to zap would even eject his venemon in to the water.but never stung me...lucky i guess.i just recently sold him.the new owner is scared to death he is going to get nailed.
 
Just be careful what you have on your hands/arms that could make your fish or other creatures sick and/or die. OR worse what could be in your that could make you sick and/or die.
 
Some previous fish/inverts that let me touch/pet them- Engineer Gobies, Yellow Blotch Rabbitfish, Niger Trigger, Peacock Flounder (Eaten by Niger Trigger...), Percula Clowns, Starry Blenny, Striped Fang Blenny, Blue/Green Chromis, Bluespine Unicorn Tang (Boarding), Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Crabs, Snails, Longspine Urchin, Fromia Star

Current Touchable Fish/Inverts- Betta (In an actual tank), Show Guppies, Ghost Shrimp, Comet Goldfish in Pond (How embarassing, I have freshwater too!) Sailfin Mollies acclimated to saltwater, two hitchhiker Hermit Crabs
 
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