A, kissing fish eat what food
1, kissing fish on the food requirements are not high, eat moss, bread, breadworms, crushed earthworms, artificial feed, small water fleas, etc., but not interested in large water fleas.
2, it has a special way of feeding, like a long time open mouth to eat small water fleas, but also especially like to use thick lips to suck the moss on the wall of the food box, water plants.
3, the kissing fish character is gentle, like to move in the water in groups, can be mixed with different fish.
The breeding method of kissing fish
1, adult male and female kissing fish are more difficult to distinguish, the male fish's fins and buttocks are wide and long, carapace is more slender, the female fish's buttock fins are narrower, carapace is thicker and wider, the abdomen is more bulging. When adult females appear to have a bulging abdomen, it is caused by an abdomen filled with eggs.
2. In captivity, the breeding season of the kissing fish is not fixed and reproduction is not complicated. If you want it to lay a lot of eggs, you can choose to feed it a lot.
3, the kissing fish is fertilized by in vitro fertilization, need to use at least 20 cm long as the parent fish. Females can produce an average of 500-10,000 eggs, about 3,000 at a time.
4. Select a larger aquarium of 804040 cm or more for the breeding site, and then put a layer of floating water plants on the surface of the water. Maintain the water temperature at 25-27℃, pH at 6.8-7.4, hardness at 9-11.
5. Breeding modeThe male fish constantly surrounds the female fish, looking for a suitable position, and then squeezes and hugs the female fish in a U-shape parcel, and when the female fish spawns, the male fish will ejaculate immediately.
6, the kissing fish eggs called floating eggs, in the water surface shows oil, floating in the water plants can let them avoid being swallowed by the parent fish.
7, after the eggs are laid, then the kissing fish are fished out, and then the eggs are incubated by hand, it takes 20-24 hours to hatch out the young fish, and after 2-3 days the young fishlings can swim, and in order to avoid starvation, they need to be fed with more gray water.
8, when the spawning 2-3 days later, you need to feed 3-4 days of small red worms, after that you can feed large worms. In order to enhance the survival rate, in 15-20 days, the young fish will grow rapidly, you can divide it into two or three boxes and feed it.
9. A litter of young will usually survive more than 9,000 fish, with a sexual maturity of about 1 year and a lifespan of 6-7 years.