Black Tail Big Hook

Black Tail Big Hook is also known as Big Black Hook, Big Hook Black Tail Light, and Hook Tail Light. It belongs to the animal kingdom, Scleractinia, Spoke-fin subclass, Lipocephala, Lipocephala suborder, Lipocephala family. Maximum body length is about 8cm, life span is 3 years. Difficulty in feeding is average, with a shy, group-swimming character, originating from San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro.

Morphological Characteristics:

The body of the Black-tailed Big Hooker is fusiform, and the color of the body is mainly transparent, of which the chest and abdomen will have a glazed silver-white reflection, and the middle side line of the body is mainly glazed green reflection. The pectoral, ventral, anal, caudal and dorsal fins are mainly transparent in color, and the anal fins are obviously black from where they join the buttocks to the underside of the tail and the upper edge of the caudal fin. The gill covers are bright silver reflective. Adults with good hair color have an orange-black reflective band along the upper dorsal edge of the hook.

Breeding Requirements:

1. Water Quality: Freshwater; pH: Weakly Acidic to Weakly Alkaline; Hardness: Soft water is preferred, but slightly higher hardness is also acceptable;

2. Temperature: 21~29 degrees Celsius;

3. Environment: Planting of Aquatic Plants is possible.

Wild Species Habits:

The earliest black-tailed big hooks were found in the shallow waters of the Rio de S?o Francis and its tributaries in southern Brazil.

They are an extremely active and skittish species that possess fast-moving characteristics as well as a distinctive stripe pattern and silvery-white flash on their tails, and in the wild form large schools to fend off predators hunting them.

This trait makes them popular with aquarists and aquascapers.

They are a hardy species and can tolerate a wide range of water conditions, but should be kept in a well-covered tank, as in the wild they will occasionally jump to escape predators.

Habitat:

1: Character: The Black-tailed Big Hook is timid, fast-swimming and lively, if you want to keep them swimming in a group, you should add a fish in the tank that poses a certain threat to them, so that they can maintain their group-swimming habits at all times.

2: Physical Condition: The Blacktail Big Hook does not have strict water quality requirements, and its physical condition is quite OK,

but it is mostly sold in the market as a small-sized individual, and it is normal for weak fish to be eliminated because of not being able to snatch the food during the feeding process, and then they will be thinned out slowly. The black-tailed big hooks that have been raised in the tank since childhood are not prone to die.

3: Eating: The black-tailed big hook has a mixed diet, and does not require much feed, basically it is a type of all comers, patches, flakes, small particles, shrimp, worms are all eaten.

4: compatibility: black-tailed big hook more active, timid, less aggressive, suitable for mixing with a certain degree of aggressiveness, but the aggressiveness of the individual is not high, in order to ensure that their group swimming habits.

It is not suitable for mixing with fish that like to be quiet and swim slowly.