The black dragonfish is a wide temperature fish.

The black dragonfish is highly adaptable, with a survival water temperature of 1-38 degrees Celsius, a feeding water temperature of 12-32 degrees Celsius, a growth water temperature of 13-30 degrees Celsius, and an optimal growth water temperature of 15-28 degrees Celsius. It can be mixed with adult fighting fish, Rhodeus sinensis, small barbs, koi and other series of fish.

Life habits:

It has the life habits of liking darkness, loving to make holes, living in caves, living in sets, and eating atrociously. Prefer to live in mountain streams, but also live in rivers, ditches and ponds and other bodies of water. Sexual ferocity, rapid movement, for animal omnivorous fish, to fish, shrimp, aquatic insects, etc. for food, in artificial domestication conditions, like to eat with feed and frozen fresh fish. It grows slowly and is not very large, usually weighing about 250 grams.

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Reproduction:

The age of first sexual maturity is 2 winters old, and 1 winter old in artificial culture, with a relative egg carrying capacity of about 500. Reproductive period is April to June, May to July for the spawning season, breeding water temperature of 18 ~ 28 ℃, the parent fish have the instinct of pairing, nesting, and protecting the young. Parents have the instincts of pairing, nesting and protecting their young. In cold winters, they often dive into caves or burrow into the mud layer to avoid the cold and overwintering. Fish hatch 2 days after the opening of the mouth to feed on external food, the opening bait for rotifers. With the growth of the fish, the proportion of feeding on branchiostoma, copepods and larvae of mosquitoes increases rapidly. It is best to breed snakeheads in aquariums around 10cm, easy to train and easy to open.

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