Since you want to raise fish, you can't do without buying fish, fish farms, stores, stalls, players, etc. No matter where you buy fish, you can't do without the spread of fungi. As the saying goes, a hundred fish make a hundred bacteria. As long as there is water, there will be the growth of microbial fungi, insects, fungi, beneficial and harmful, etc. Our fish live in water every day to fight and grow with them. Fish farms usually change water or drugs regularly to control a large number of outbreaks of these pests and diseases without endangering the healthy growth of fish. Even the healthiest fish carry fungi. Therefore, the prevention and quarantine of newly bought fish is more important. Quarantine is very important. The newly purchased fish are only transported, and the fish's physique drops and its own balance is broken. If the prevention is not done well, it is the beginning of fish disease or the death of fish! More seriously, it will hurt your original fish.
Second, the temperature
The optimum temperature of guppy is between 22 and 26 degrees. Generally, I control it at 22 to 24 degrees for adult fish and around 24 to 26 degrees for young fish. Some fish friends raise the temperature of young fish to 27 or 8 degrees, thinking that young fish can be active, increase their food intake and metabolism, and develop quickly. This is true, but the negative impact of this high temperature has been ignored. At this high temperature, the metabolism of young fish is too fast, even if they eat more, they can't supply it quickly, especially calcium. Therefore, after a period of time, there may be sudden deformities and other diseases, and even after adult fish, it is easy to have negative situations such as premature aging, female fish collapsing after childbirth or male fish collapsing suddenly, and many offspring deformed by female fish. When these examples are cultivated in greenhouses, the fish bred in the high temperature period in summer is the best example, which experienced players should have encountered. Peacock fish are kept as parent fish, which are basically bred in winter, mainly because the water temperature is constant and suitable in winter.
Third, feed
For bait, it mainly refers to the type of bait, the amount of feeding and the number of times of feeding every day, as well as the adjustment of the variety and feeding amount of bait with the growth of fish age.
I didn't feed the newborn baby fish that day, because first, I adapted it to the environment, and second, the yolk sac had not been fully absorbed. Hehe, the peacock fish was viviparous. From the second day, it is best to open the mouth with live shrimp larvae, which are rich in nutrition and easy to absorb, and have the effect of promoting defecation. During this period, the larvae can eat as much as possible until their bellies are hemispherical, and at this time, a little live bait can be kept in the tank. The brother summed up a proverb: "Try to hold on for 4 weeks, feed hard in February, eat well in 3 or 4 months, and feed less after May". Because my brother has another job, he can only take time to feed twice every morning and evening during this period, especially after feeding in the morning, it is better to keep a little live bait in the aquarium. During this period, according to the standards of professional players in Europe, America and Japan, they should be fed 6 to 8 times a day with an interval of about 2 or 3 hours. This feeding method can be used for reference by professional players. If you have problems with farming, you can go to the cloud breeding consulting expert, which is the world's largest agricultural technology question and answer website. There are tens of thousands of experts in planting, and every question raised will be answered within 2 minutes.
If we don't hatch the shrimp, we can also feed it with frozen shrimp larvae, shelled shrimp eggs (both of which are generally sold in fish markets), Daphnia or professional young fish. These baits are slightly worse than live shrimp, and the difference is mainly reflected in palatability and nutrient content. For example, palatability, fish have the instinct to chase and catch food, so live bait can greatly stimulate the appetite of fish, promote fish to catch sports, and at the same time promote fish to strengthen metabolism. In nutrition, artificial bait is incomparable with natural live bait, and artificial bait still has the disadvantages of being difficult to digest. Therefore, we should pay great attention to the water quality when feeding artificial bait, and we must never leave residual bait or change water after feeding.
When the young fish are 2 or 3 weeks old, in addition to feeding shrimp and Daphnia larvae, other baits will be gradually added, such as tiny water worms (don't feed a big one to choke the young fish, you can screen it out with a net or cut it into pieces), artificial baits, etc., so that the young fish can eat more nutrients. The feeding sequence of bait types is to feed other baits first, and then feed bumper shrimp, so that the bumper shrimp can stay in the intestinal tract of the fish more fully and the nutrition can be absorbed better.
At the age of 3 weeks, the normal development of young fish can be divided into male and female. You can use this standard as a reference to see if your young fish is up to standard. My young fish can be identified in about 18 days, but at this time, there is no need to hurry to raise the male and female fish in separate tanks, and they can be separated together after waiting.
When the young fish is 4 weeks old, it is necessary to raise the male and female separately if they want to continue to develop well, grow big and have outstanding strain characteristics. Hehe, because the male fish is so big, it will start to chase the "manual labor" of the female fish. If you don't eat well, it will consume valuable physical energy. Naturally, it is thin and dry, so it is necessary to raise it in separate tanks, which is also the key to cultivate high-quality guppies!
Fourth, fish tank cleaning
Family fish farming, we basically focus on fish tanks, so how to maintain our small ecological environment of fish tanks is the most basic condition for feeding fish. Usually, the eating, pulling and urinating of the fish we love are all done here. Although you have equipped many excellent hardware equipment for fish farming, you have also absorbed all the organic substances (feces and residual bait) you see and replaced them with new water, but those invisible liquids or decomposed feces are left in the tank, which will slowly decompose with the environment and temperature, and produce some harmful components to the fish, such as nitrate, nitrite and ammonia nitrogen.
Five, change the water
When changing the water for the roe fish every day, it is changed once a day, and each time it is changed by about 20%. Change it twice a week for 50%. After two weeks, change all the water 1 time, and clean the cylinder at the same time. In the first month of Ziyu, I changed the water like this.
From February to March, change 20% once a day, 50% once a week, and change all the water once every two weeks.
For the fish after the third month, the water should be changed by 20% every day, 50% every two weeks, and all the water should be changed once a month or so.
When changing water, be careful not to get too close to the fish when pumping water to avoid sucking the fish and causing damage; When adding water, don't hold a water container such as a pipe or a vat to directly add water to the jar, and try your best to avoid the impact of the water flow on the fish! Otherwise, the fish will easily get sick because of sudden stimulation! The correct way to add water is to control the water flow small, cling to the inner wall of the fish tank and slowly add water. When water is added in winter, the water temperature is higher than that of raw water 1 to 2 degrees, and it is lower in summer 1 to 2 degrees.
Peacock fish is gentle and can be mixed with other tropical fish. However, breeders should pay attention to the density of fish when mixing. Too many fish mixed together is not conducive to the growth of peacock fish.