The red dragonfish itself is a kind of fish that is extremely good to keep, but it is difficult to keep it alive and keep it well.

1, the environment,

Red dragonfish breeding environment for most fishermen is nothing more than the layout of the tank. Generally people like to red dragons like dark-colored environment, this point I will have their own views. The reason why most people like to keep red dragon in a dark black tank is because red dragon is famous for chameleon, it will show different state depending on the environment and lighting, so all black environment will make the red dragon's hair color darker and redder, yes this is also my personal experience.

The following picture is my own red dragon, when I first bought it, it was 30+, basically there are signs of color, but you can see the color is very light and orange, then I gave it a new tank, all black environment, so there is a significant improvement in the color, one day at a time. Of course I am very happy, but I always feel that the scales are black, the whole fish is black except for red, it looks lifeless. Later, I happened to see the red dragon of the god in the forum, the hair color is especially natural, the red and green gradient is perfect, and he used a white background and black background. Because of this problem I consulted many friends in the chinchilla circle, and later came to the conclusion that the black background of the tank can promote coloration, and the white background allows the chinchilla to develop color naturally.

I believe that the greatest joy of keeping chinchillas is to see it give us different changes at every stage, and the natural gradation of natural coloring is what I want. The pursuit of redness, on the contrary, distorted the dragonfish market, we can see everywhere in the fish store all black background high-intensity lighting, red dragon's back, fins, scales bottom color is black, dull eyes. I don't think that's what we want.

To get to the point, so I decisively changed the black background to white. As I expected, there was a fading of color that ensued, and the red frame was no longer red turning orange. It also reinforced my perception of the importance of the bottom of the tank: black background + white background white background + black background? The two environments are very different, and the color of the tank bottom determines the bottom color of the fish. After sticking to it for a month, the bottom color of the dragon fish's scales became significantly lighter and appeared clean. You can refer to the comparison chart of the two stages. Compared to these two, I prefer the contrast between the clean base color and the natural gradation of hair color.

2, feeding

Personally, I feel that the role of feeding on the color of the dragonfish does not account for a large proportion of the red dragon suggests that the small fish and shrimp (river shrimp is the main)

Many people like to feed the red dragon centipedes, cockroaches, crickets, barley worms, forest frogs, small turtles, and even some people feed rats, snakes. I would like to say that the role of these for the development of color can be basically ignored, and often feed these insects will get insect fetish, it is very easy to make the red dragon indigestion enteritis or even death. However, diversification of the food of the dragonfish is good for the health of the dragonfish. Suggestion: Fish and shrimp mainly, insects occasionally (good treatment)

3, water change

Water change is the best way to maintain water quality, and even better filter media without regular water change is useless

Frequency: According to the feeding density, feeding species, feeding amount, water size, water source, season to set their own water change frequency. If you keep a single dragonfish, you can change the water 1/4 a week, and if you have stingrays mixed with tiger fish, you can strengthen the frequency of water change, 3-5 days. Summer temperatures can be moderately increase the frequency of water changes

Water changes: healthy fish only water changes try to keep each time you change 1/3 to 1/4

Trapped water: water changes must be replaced with trapped water, some fishermen use the water heater water or filter drips, personal feeling is not as safe as the trapped water, and even more directly introduced into the tap water, it is easy to cause the water mold Lilin, and so on, even if the fish only to adapt to this! Change method, short-term may not have a big problem, time is likely to cause liver overburden caused by violent death, because the liver of fish is very small and fragile, long-term liver to withstand the tap water chlorine bleach disinfectant and other toxins can only get such a consequence of erosion.

Suggestions: regular quantitative water changes, the water must be trapped over, trapped water can be added to a small power pump plus a simple filter material filter cotton, so that the water circulation. A heating rod, set one degree higher than the main tank water.