Carp is a freshwater fish.

The common name of crucian carp is Carassius auratus, Carassius auratus, Carassius auratus, Carassius auratus, Carassius auratus, Carassius perch, Carassius perch, Carassius perch, Carassius perch, Carassius shell, Carassius auratus, and Carassius auratus riverius. Common in the Eurasian region, for the common freshwater fish, belongs to the spoke fin fish subclass carp carp order carp family crucian carp genus. Carp through artificial breeding and selection, can produce many new varieties.

The crucian carp is an omnivorous fish living in freshwater, with a rich body and a beautiful posture in the water. The life level of crucian carp belongs to the bottom fish. In general, are underwater swimming, foraging, habitat. When the temperature and water temperature are high, it will also swim and feed in the middle and lower layers of the water and the middle and upper layers of the water.

Life Habits

Carp likes to travel in groups and choose its food. The meat is tender and has high nutritional value, containing 13 grams of protein and 11 grams of fat per 100 grams of meat, as well as a large amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Carp is also an important ornamental fish, beautiful and colorful goldfish is evolved from crucian carp. Carp has a long history of breeding in China.

The adult crucian carp is mainly plant-based diet. As the plant feed in the water body is rich and varied, for feeding on a wide range of surfaces. The stems, leaves, buds and fruits of vascular aquatic grasses are what crucian carp love to eat, and in the waters where there are higher aquatic plants such as diamonds and lotus roots, crucian carp are most capable of obtaining a variety of rich nutrients. Diatoms and some kinds of algae are also the food of crucian carp, and there are also small shrimps, earthworms, young snails, insects and so on.