How to raise tiger fish
Large South American cichlid fish. It is also a very popular species. In its native land is more a popular food fish. Huge in size, the markings on the body are more like a leopard than a tiger. Therefore, it is also called leopard stonefish.
Flower tigers are very territorial and they usually don't like other fish to disturb their purification. Plus their huge size. So it's best not to mix fish of the same species. After all, they are strong killer fish.
Origin: Costa Rica, Honduras, Managua and Nicaragua in rivers and lakes.
Breeding water quality: No special requirements. As long as there is water, it can survive.
Identification of male and female: not very easy. You can only distinguish them by the difference in the length of the dorsal and anal fins. Their reproduction is somewhat similar to that of the mapfish
. They breed openly on smooth rocks. They need a large area of water for breeding. Therefore, it is difficult to breed them successfully in a home aquarium.
Food: Carnivorous, piscivorous Active layer: Lower middle layer is more common, can also be seen in the upper layer of water Temperament: rough. Territory concept
Note: the tiger loves to bite other fish, so the size of the fish with which it is mixed should be significantly larger than him, such as feeding some fish worms, water worms, shrimp, etc.
Morphological Characteristics of the Tiger Fish
The length of the body is about 250 millimeters. The body is prolonged, the anterior part is thick, and the posterior part is slightly flattened laterally. The head is broad, with depressions and projections, and the ribs are blunt. Eyes small, superiorly lateral.
The posterior end of the second infraorbital ossicle is very broad, united with the anterior gill cover bone. Middle of mouth large, oral fissure several vertical. Maxillary, mandibular and plastron with chorionic tooth clusters, with many well-developed dermal whiskers on lateral side of head and underneath mandible. Gill cover membrane separate and attached to isthmus. Body without scales. Palatine bones without teeth.
Body unscaled, with dermatophores. Lateral line straight. Dorsal fin continuous, dorsal fin with 16-17 fin spines. The lower lobe of the pectoral fin has two finger-like free fins, the third and fourth fin spines are widely spaced, and the fin membrane is y concave; the pectoral fin is broad, with two free fins; the ventral fin is large, and the fin membrane is connected to the body wall; the caudal fin is rounded and truncated. The starving fish showed morphological characteristics such as large head, short body, thin body, whitish body color, etc. Behaviorally, the fish showed slow swimming, slow reaction and lying on the bottom.
After long-term starvation, the back of the brain of the fish is obviously sunken, and its morphological characteristics can be used as an important indicator to determine the starvation death of the fish.
Common species of tiger fish
1, ghost jacks, the length of the kiss is shorter than the length of the head behind the eyes, the eye spacing is slightly less than the length of the kiss, the coast of China are all produced;
2, Ju's ghost jacks, the length of the kiss is about equal to the length of the head behind the eyes, the eye spacing of the kiss is 1/2 to 2/3, distributed in the South China Sea;
3, double-fingered ghost jacks, the length of the kiss is significantly greater than the length of the head behind the eyes, the eye spacing of about 1/2 of the kiss length, produced in the South China Sea. 1/2, produced in the South China Sea.
4, flower tiger fish, large South American cichlids, adult body length: 30 cm. It is also a very popular species. In the origin is a popular food fish. Huge size, body markings rather than like a tiger, but also like a leopard. Therefore, it is also called leopard stonefish.
5, Thai tiger fish, also known as Siamese tiger fish, juvenile Siamese tiger fish basic body color is white with black stripes of color. After adulthood, the white color will gradually turn into yellow. It forms a tiger-like pattern. It is a popular ornamental fish. This species is related to the Siniperca chuatsi, a valuable food fish from the Yangtze River basin in China. The same fish is also an extremely valuable food fish in its country of origin.
6, the Indonesian tigerfish, the Indonesian tigerfish body slender, body length and height ratio and Siamese tigerfish is very different. The vast majority of Indonesia's center stripe is relatively straight from the dorsal fin link to the abdomen, but there are a few exotic scimitar Indonesia tiger. The state of the vast majority of Indonesian tigers is unstable black, easy to change Indonesia can be so black that you can not find the lines, Indonesia's tail midstripe is ring tailed (connected). Indo-Chinese tail grain 3 grain, multi-grain, tail three grain.