Swallowfish, also known as fairy fish, are baited with fish worms, water worms, fiber worms, yellow meal worms, small live fish, and pellet feed. There are many varieties of fairy fish with different sizes, so the choice of bait is different for different varieties of fairy fish.

For fairy fish with body length of 3 to 12 centimeters, its bait is mainly turtle worms, supplemented by water worms, red worms and yellow meal worms. For the fairy fish with a body length of more than 12 centimeters, the turtle worms are small and have poor palatability, so you should choose a slightly larger individual bait, mainly red worms, water earthworms, yellow mealworms, small live fish and so on.

Most of the fairy fish to animal-based bait, small varieties can also be domesticated to pellet feed-based, and plant-based bait-based fish is rare, fairy fish feeding water temperature control between 24 to 28 ℃, in this to temperature range, fairy fish appetite, rapid growth.

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The number of times of baiting

The amount of baiting for fairy fish should be decided according to the size and number of fish. Home rearing of fairy fish, only 1 to 2 times a day baiting, the amount of bait to be eaten within 5 to 10 minutes is appropriate. When keeping large quantities of fairy fish, you need to bait 2 to 3 times a day;

For breeding period, you need to bait 3 to 4 times a day. Due to the small size of the fairy fish, limited food, each time the bait to 7 to 8 times full is appropriate, increase the number of times baiting ding to promote rapid growth of the turtles.

When the bait is mainly small fish and shrimp, in principle, should be more meals and less feeding, fairy fish to replace the new bait, the amount of bait should be gradually increased from less. The fairy fish should stop baiting for 1 to 2 days before transportation.