How to breed peacock fish?

Peacock fish (details)

The peacock fish is a tropical freshwater fish, because of the colorful body, beautiful and widely loved, peacock fish is very adaptable, the optimal growth temperature of 22 ~ 24 ℃, although the peacock fish is more adaptable, but for many newcomers to the peacock fish is not simple to raise, then, newcomers to the peacock fish in the breeding of what to pay attention to it?

One, buy healthy peacock fish

Since you want to raise fish, it is inseparable from the fish to buy fish, fish farms, stores, stalls, players in the hands of the players, etc., no matter where you are going to buy fish from, can not be separated from the dissemination of the fungus, the proverbial good, a hundred fish a hundred fungus. As long as there is water there will be microbial fungus growth, those insects ah bacteria ah, beneficial harmful and so on, our fish live in the water every day in the fight with them and grow. Fish farms usually change the water or medication regularly to control the outbreak of these pests and diseases, not to jeopardize the healthy growth of fish. Even the healthiest fish carry fungus. Therefore, prevention and quarantine of newly purchased fish becomes more important. Quarantine is very important, the new fish purchased after transportation, the fish body quality decline, their own balance is broken, prevention is not done well, is the beginning of fish disease or fish death! The worst thing that can happen is that your original fish will be affected.

Temperature

The appropriate temperature for peacockfish is between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius, and adult fish are generally controlled at 22 to 24 degrees Celsius, while juvenile fish are controlled at about 24 to 26 degrees Celsius. Some fish friends fish friends to raise the temperature of the young fish to 27, 8 degrees, that the young fish is active, food and metabolism to increase, in order to develop fast, this is true, but the negative impact of this high temperature has been ignored. At this high temperature, the metabolism of juvenile fish is too fast, and even if they eat more, they can't supply the metabolism to go out fast enough, especially calcium, so they may have diseases such as sudden deformities after a period of time, and even after they become adults, they are prone to negative situations such as premature aging, postpartum collapse of the waist of females or sudden collapse of the waist of males, and the offspring produced by females with a lot of deformities. These examples are best exemplified by fish bred during the high summer temperatures when breeding in greenhouses, and should have been encountered by experienced players. Peacock fish that are kept as breeding parents are basically fish that are bred in winter, and the reason for this is also mainly because the water temperature is constant and suitable in winter.

Three, feed

For the bait, mainly refers to the type of bait, the amount of feeding and the number of times a day to feed, as well as with the age of the fish continue to increase the variety of bait and feeding adjustments.

Newborn roe, the day I do not feed, because one is first to make it adapt to the environment, the second is that there are yolk sacs have not yet been absorbed, oh, peacock fish but the egg fetal birth oh. From the second day, it is best to live shrimp larvae opening, which is rich in nutrients and easy to absorb, but also has the effect of promoting defecation. This period of time so that the son of the fish as much as possible to eat, eat, eat until the stomach is hemispherical, at this time the tank can still retain a small degree of live bait. Brother summarized a proverb is "4 weeks to try to hold out, in February to feed hard, 3, 4 months to eat enough, after 5 months to feed less". Since my brother has another job, he can only feed the fish twice a day in the morning and twice a day in the evening, especially in the morning, after feeding, he should keep a little bit of live bait in the aquarium. During this period, according to the standard of professional players in Europe, America, Japan and other countries, you should feed 6 to 8 times a day, each time interval of about 2 or 3 hours, such feeding method can be used for professional players to refer to.

Peacock fish (details)

If not hatching the shrimp, we can also use frozen shrimp larvae, shelled shrimp eggs {these two are generally sold in the fish market}, daphnia or professional juvenile artificial open bait to feed, these baits are slightly worse than the live shrimp, the gap is mainly reflected in the palatability and nutritional content. For example, palatability, fish have the instinct to chase and catch food, so live bait can greatly stimulate the appetite of the fish to promote the fish to catch the movement, the movement at the same time prompted the fish to strengthen the metabolism. In terms of nutrition, artificial bait and natural live bait are incomparable, and artificial bait also has the disadvantage of being difficult to digest. Therefore, when feeding artificial bait, we should pay close attention to the water quality, and never leave residual bait, or change the water after feeding.

When the young fish is 2 or 3 weeks old, besides feeding shrimp and daphnia larvae, we will gradually increase other baits, such as fine water worms {don't feed a big one that will choke the young fish, you can sieve out the fine ones with a net and feed them or cut it into pieces, chop it up}, artificial baits, etc., so that the young fish will take in more nutritious food. The order of feeding the bait types is to feed other baits first, and then feed the Toyo shrimp last, in order to make the Toyo shrimp stay in the fish's intestinal tract for a fuller period of time, and the nutrients are better absorbed.

At 3 weeks old, the normal degree of development of the young fish can already be divided into male and female sex, you can use this standard as a reference to see whether your juvenile fish rearing up to standard. My young fish can be identified as male and female at around 18 days old, but you don't have to rush to separate the male and female fish into separate tanks at this time, you can wait a little longer to separate them together.

When the young fish is 4 weeks old, if you want the fish to continue to develop well, grow large, outstanding strain characteristics, it is necessary to separate the male and female breeding. Oh, because the male fish so big will begin to chase the female fish to do "physical work", not eat well and consume valuable body energy, naturally, is thin and dry Hall of darkness without the spirit, so separate tank feeding is a must, which is the key to cultivate high-quality peacock fish!

Four, fish tank cleaning

Family fish, we are basically aquarium-based, so how to maintain our fish tank this small ecological environment, is the most basic conditions to feed the fish. Usually we love fish eat ah, pull ah, urine ah all completed here, although you have configured a lot of excellent fish hardware equipment, but also you see the organic matter (poop, residual bait) are sucked off, also changed the new water, but those who can not see the liquid or decomposition of feces but stay in the tank, these will be with the environment, the temperature and so on, slowly decomposition, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia nitrogen and other harmful to the fish some components, with the continuous baiting of the tank, the fish will be able to maintain the ecological environment. With the continuous baiting, the increase of organic matter will also lead to the spread of many pathogenic bacteria, which will ultimately lead to the illness and death of the fish.

Five, water change

Daily in the sub-fish water change, is once a day, each time about 20%. Change 50% twice a week, and change all the water 1 time after 2 weeks, and clean the tank at the same time. This is how I change the water here during the first month of the sub fish.

From the 2nd to 3rd month, 20% once a day, 50% once a week, and all water changes once in about 2 weeks.

For fish after the 3rd month, 20% water change every day, 50% once a week for 2 weeks, and all water change once a month or so.

When changing the water, when pumping the water, be careful not to get too close to the fish to avoid sucking the fish and causing damage; when adding water, don't hold the pipe or bucket or other water containers and look directly into the tank to add water, and try your best to avoid the impact of the water flow on the fish! Otherwise, the fish will be easily affected by the sudden stimulation and cause fish disease! The correct way to add water is to control the water flow should be small, close to the wall of the tank, slowly add water. In winter, the water temperature is 1 to 2 degrees higher than the original water, and in summer, the water temperature should be 1 to 2 degrees lower.

The peacock fish has a mild temperament and can be mixed with other tropical fish, however, keepers should pay attention to the density of the fish when mixing, too many fish mixed together is not conducive to the growth of the peacock fish.