The red swordfish, also known as the swordfish, red sword, gentle temperament, the biggest feature is the red body, the appearance is very cute, looks very auspicious and festive, by the people's love and favor! But their life expectancy is short, more than two years!
Red swordfish breeding matters needing attention:
1. Preparation of the aquarium, the size of the red swordfish according to how many and the size of the fish to determine, try to be larger so that the fish have a greater space for activities, the red swordfish when the best control of the temperature of the water in the 25 degrees - 28 degrees or so.
2. If you buy a red swordfish for the first time, you can start feeding it after getting used to the new environment. Generally speaking, if you put a red swordfish in the tank for half a day, and if you find that the fish start to peck at the wall of the tank or the bottom of the tank, it means that you can start to feed it, but you have to pay attention to what the red swordfish eats.
3. When the temperature is high, the red swordfish will suffer from oxygen deficiency, and the red swordfish will concentrate its activities near the surface of the water. At this time, you can turn on the oxygen concentrator to provide oxygen, if there is no oxygen concentrator, you can change the water for the fish, and look for a suction hose that can suck away the dirt at the bottom of the tank, and change one-third or one half of the water. Try not to touch the fish when you are sucking or adding water to avoid hurting the fins of the fish.
4. The Red Swordfish is usually an active fish, and its temperament is quite gentle, so it can be mixed with other tropical fish species. The tails of red swords are nice to look at, but they like to chase and bite themselves, often breaking their own tails, so it's best to keep red swords instead of other aggressive fish, such as tiger fish.
5. You can use specialized fish food to feed the red swordfish, bread crumbs can also be, the red swordfish is not very picky to eat. However, it is important to note that some fish refuse to eat when they change their environment, so it is important to feed the fish what they like to eat, and you can feed them a balanced diet of artificial feeds and subsistence feeds. Be careful with portion sizes and avoid leftover scraps, which can rot and damage water quality.
6. To distinguish between male and female red swordfish, differentiated feeding. Red swordfish to distinguish between male and female is to look at the tail: tail with a sword is male, round tail is female. Small fish have round tails, and as they grow up, the males grow swords.
7. The female red swordfish produces once every 4-6 weeks, which is influenced by the size and age of the female and the ratio of the males to the females. Each time you can produce 30-300 young fish, breeding should pay attention to, the same nest to stay in the seed fish do not more than two generations, so as not to continuous inbreeding lead to species degradation, so that the offspring of the fish body is getting smaller and smaller, the dorsal fin becomes shorter and narrower, reproduction, the temperature of the red swordfish must pay attention to the temperature than the usual temperature is higher than the temperature of 1-2 ° or so.