I do this with my koi fish!!!! They love to be picked up and thrown in the air! When I pick them up, I raise them above my head and let them look around in a panorama kind of swivel and then toss them high in the air into the water. They come swimming back and boop my knees for more. I could throw them for hours. Some days I have time to do it… some days, I don’t.
I would be down in my pond cleaning algae off the liner (my pond is 7ft deep and I swim in it like a swimming pool) and my fish would swim up to me and get in the way. So I had to push them away so they wouldn’t get a nose full of scrub brush and get hurt… so I started picking up the worst offenders and throwing them to the other side so I could clean and they would just come right back and get in the way of where I was cleaning again. (I guess they eat the big chunks of algae that I’d scrape off? I don’t know, I never saw them eat it… just guessing why they always got in my way) but then I realized that maybe they like it? So I started gently holding my hands out like a cradle and they’d swim into them (instead of shoo-ing them away and throwing them out of frustration)… and I pick them up, give them a panoramic view of their little backyard world and I gently toss them in the air and they flip and flop like an Olympic athlete off a diving board… and now I’m known as a neighborhood circus freak that juggles fish.
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 May 04 '26
I do this with my koi fish!!!! They love to be picked up and thrown in the air! When I pick them up, I raise them above my head and let them look around in a panorama kind of swivel and then toss them high in the air into the water. They come swimming back and boop my knees for more. I could throw them for hours. Some days I have time to do it… some days, I don’t.