Scientific name: Helostoma temminckii

Native: Indonesia in Asia. The average adult fish is 20-25 centimeters long.

Suitable water temperature: 18-25℃.

Water quality requirements: total hardness (gH): 6-9dGH, pH: 6.5-7.5.

Kissing fish feed: voracious, the main food is frozen brine worms, earthworms are also happy to eat. Particularly fond of salmon trout eggs.

Price: ranges from 1 to 15 dollars a fish.

Breeding: the same as the fighting fish reproduce differently. It does not spit and camp the nest, but directly lay floating eggs, floating on the surface of the water. Eggs are amber-colored, and if they are whitish, they are unfertilized. The amount of eggs laid is large, 4,000-10,000 at a time. The kissing fish swims very slowly and is a very ornamental tropical fish. Because the body of the fish is reddish with white like the first release of peach blossom, so many connoisseurs call it peach blossom fish. Kissing fish is very easy to raise, it has no special requirements for water quality, water temperature between 22-26 ℃ can be, many students in the dormitory with a small teacups, small bottles also raised kissing fish. However, since kissing fish grows up to be bigger, it is recommended to choose a bigger breeding tank. Kissing fishes are gentle in nature and can be mixed with other fishes as they move around in groups in various layers of water. And it has a mixed diet, not picky at all, breadworms, crushed earthworms, artificial feed, what the owner feeds, it will eat. Not only does it grow fast, but its resistance is also good, and it seldom gets sick. Kissing fish do not have a fixed breeding season under artificial breeding conditions, and breeding is relatively simple. Kissing fish reach sexual maturity when they are 15 months old, and they can reproduce several times a year. When you plan to breed small fish, you can put the parent fish into the breeding tank according to the ratio of 1:1 between male and female, and at the same time, mix in some distilled water to stimulate the parent fish to come into heat. The spawning process of each female fish lasts for several hours and can produce more than 1,000 eggs, and some of them can reach 2,000-3,000 eggs. Because the kissing fish has the habit of swallowing the eggs, so the breeding tank should be planted more floating water plants.

There is no fixed breeding season for kissing fish in captivity, and it is not difficult to breed them. It is best to keep them in pairs and feed them heavily to facilitate breeding.

They are not easy to distinguish between males and females, and juveniles are almost impossible to recognize males and females. Adult males generally have wide and long anal fins and a slender body; females have narrow anal fins, a wide and thick body, and a slightly bulging abdomen. When the female is sexually mature, her abdomen expands as she fills with eggs, which is very obvious when looking down from the top of the tank. Kissing fish is oviparous, in vitro fertilization, generally to use the body length of 20cm or more as the parent fish. Breeding is carried out in a larger aquarium of 80×40×40cm or more, with 5 to 7 days old water, water temperature between 25 and 27°C, pH 6.8-7.4, hardness 9-11, and a layer of floating aquatic grass placed on the water surface in the box. Male fish constantly around the female fish turn, when reached the appropriate position, was "U" shaped wrapped in the body of the female fish squeeze hold, female fish spawning male fish immediately after ejaculation. The female can produce 500 to 10,000 eggs each time, with an average of 3,000.

Its eggs belong to the floating eggs, floating on the surface of the water layer like oil, floating water plants can save them from being accidentally swallowed by the parent fish.

After spawning the eggs, you can fish out the parent fish and artificially incubate the eggs. 20 to 24 hours to hatch out the young fish, 2 to 3 days after the young fish can swim up, you have to feed a lot of grey water, otherwise they will starve to death. 2 to 3 days after feeding the small red worms for 3 to 4 days, then you can feed the big worms. 15 to 20 days, you have to divide the fast-growing young fish into two or three boxes to ensure a high survival rate. Sometimes a litter can survive more than 9,000 fish, reaching sexual maturity in about a year. Lifespan can reach 6 to 7 years.

Value: The kissing fish has both ornamental and food value, and is a fish with high economic value. Compared with other tropical fish, kissing fish do not have bright and attractive colors, but still favored by tropical fish lovers. This is because the kissing fish not only has a "kissing" skills, and swimming technology is also quite superb, they can be in the water tumbling jumps, as if the excellent gymnasts perform somersaults as wonderful, people applauded.

Kissing fish is a kind of tropical fish, their hometown in Southeast Asia, Java and Borneo Island, the local residents are very fond of kissing fish, often raise them in the fish tank, to watch its "kissing" performance. Later, the kissing fish has become a world-famous ornamental fish, the market price has soared, each tail sold for about 100 U.S. dollars. Kissing fish oval, side bias, large head, large mouth, large pectoral fins; body color milky white slightly reddish, lips and eye membranes red. There are also some kissing fish that are silver-gray or blue-green in color, and a few that are white. Under natural conditions, the body length of the kissing fish can reach about 30 centimeters.

Kissing fish kissing: If you want to enjoy the spectacle of their "kissing", then you will patiently wait in the aquarium with kissing fish, you can enjoy. When the two kissing fish meet, both sides will coincidentally stretch out a lot of jagged long lips, hard to touch each other together, as lovers "kissing" in general, a long time not to separate. However, this "kiss" is not "courtship", but in the fight. Due to the kissing fish has to defend the "territory" habit, the two meet, with long lips to fight to solve the "territory" dispute, until one party backed down to give in, "kissing" was declared over!

The two fish are like two suction cups firmly attached to each other when they meet, and they can keep kissing all afternoon, making contact with each other with great force and with no regard for their surroundings. Do not think that this is the deep love between their lovers, in fact, this is a phenomenon of fighting, is in order to defend their own space field and fighting! But this kind of fight is not intense, as long as one side retreats and gives in, the victor will not continue to pursue and fight, but continue to bury its cleaning work, as if nothing has happened. Therefore, their gentle habits do not pose a threat to any other fish, making them suitable for mixed breeding.

The last word of advice: If you want to enjoy the kiss of a kissing fish, it is best to keep them from a young age in small numbers. A few of them can easily increase the number of kisses as they get used to their environment and become a new point of eye contact in your aquarium!

Although zoologists have confirmed that the kissing action of kissing fish may be a nature of territorial competition, but it is also really interesting to watch the fish kissing affectionately, so nowadays there are a lot of young people scrambling to keep kissing fish to symbolize that their love can also be sweet and sweet.

Born fish tank "scavenger"

Kissing fish like kissing habits for the fish tank ecological very favorable. Kissing fish often use their mouths to constantly nibble algae and moss on the water plants and aquarium walls, which can make the water plants bright green, the box wall to keep clean, play a big role in cleaning the aquarium. When the kissing fish is eating the algae and moss on the bottom of the tank, it is often upside down with its head facing downwards, which is very interesting. Although the kissing fish is a large fish species, but it is not interested in general large water fleas, and often open mouth to "drink" some small water fleas in order to eat, which is also a special way of tropical fish feeding. Because of raising kissing fish two birds with one stone, many people will put a few kissing fish in the tropical fish box as a "scavenger". Although, the kissing fish is so busy, but still not a good "aquarium scavenger", because, although they like to peck algae, but not their main food, kissing fish eat a lot, can accept any bait, nibbling on algae is just its natural nature and to supplement its habit of moving and a lot of physical consumption, with the growth and development, it will also be a large increase in feces. As it grows and develops, its feces will also increase dramatically, almost more than the dirt it "cleans"!

Related information

Another: a couplet

The first line: peanuts are long fruits

The second line: Kissing fish kisses the mouth

Peanuts are also known as long fruits,

Kissing fish is also known as kissing fish.

Literally, it can be interpreted as: after the falling flower gives birth to a long fruit, or it can be interpreted as the growing process of the falling peanut.

Literally, it can be understood as: kissing and making out is a kissing fish, or it can be understood as a kissing scene of a kissing fish.

Fallen flowers, peanuts, growth, long fruits. (The growing process of falling peanut)

Kissing, kissing fish, fish kissing, kissing mouth. (The kissing scene of the kissing fish)

Another solution: the scientific and common names of the peanut

Another solution: the scientific and common names of the kissing fish

(The kissing fish is the scientific name, the kissing fish is an alias.) (Also: the ancient sound of the word "mouth" is flat, so it can be used as a next couplet.