Indoor breeding,
They are not suitable for keeping in deep-water aquariums. These ornamental fish are concentrated as follows:
Strong jumping ability, often like to move out of the water, escape from prison without authorization, or like to fight, courtship and play in the shallows.
One of the most famous should be
mudskipper
Now, they are more suitable for living in shallows, so keeping them in shallow tanks can create a living environment suitable for their habits.
Pinball fish is an authentic fish, not an amphibian.
The mudskipper is real.
Fish,
There are many aliases, such as:
Jumping fish, periophthalmos, stone monkey, flower jump, etc.
They belong to the suborder gobies and mudskippers. At present, there are more than 20 species in the world, which are mainly divided into four categories.
They are distributed in many warm waters of China, and most of them are mudskippers.
Lutefisk
In other words, they can live in both seawater and fresh water, and very few of them live entirely in fresh water.
However, there are many completely desalinated mudskippers on the market. If you want to raise in fresh water, you'd better choose these desalted varieties.
Ordinary fish can't breathe without water, but we also know that many fish can already cross this obstacle, such as perch climbing, lungfish, some catfish, and even street sweepers. They will be short of water, or even short of water.
Within a certain period of time
Without water, there would be no problem.
The main reason why mudskippers are mistaken for amphibians is that they often live on the shore.
Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have created various internal and external changes of mudskippers.
After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the mudskipper finally chose.
Mating, breeding and playing on the shore, foraging.
That's because their body structure is different from other fish.
First of all, as fish living in water, mudskippers will choose to breathe through gills. When they start a series of activities on the shore, they will start another system, or an alternative way of breathing.
Their skin surface, oral cavity and gill cavity have relatively small capillaries, from which oxygen can directly enter the blood. In order to move freely on land, the pectoral fin and caudal fin of mudskipper have also changed to varying degrees, similar to the perch climbing mentioned above.
In other words, the fins become their hands and feet, enough to support their bodies and let them come and go quickly in the wetland on the shore. This strange structure actually makes them clumsy in water and agile on land.
Even if we found the mudskipper two meters away, it was difficult to catch it and ran away in the blink of an eye.
This is because they can use their strong tails as support to jump in the air and jump a few centimeters off the ground, so they have.
Jumping fish
Alias, so there is a more attractive gimmick.
All activities on the shore have become the main battlefield of their lives.
We don't know why mudskippers suddenly choose to live ashore. This is the result of the optimized selection of human ancestors for hundreds of millions of years. We may not guess that idea here.
In short, mudskippers can find food, play, frolic and mate and breed on the shore.
Every adult mudskipper will build its own nest on the shore, and most of the work is done by
Male fish
To complete it, they will dig out the sediment with their mouths and transport it away, and finally complete the delivery room. They are a group of happy little fresh meat who can get married smoothly without buying a car or a house. Everything is made by themselves.
Then the male mudskippers will start to bloom all kinds of flowers around the nest.
Boasting behavior
Including relaxing the dorsal fin, achieving the best body color, yelling at each other, fighting with each other, etc. To attract the attention of female mudskippers, and then they will successfully find a spouse to marry, and soon, the hatched small mudskippers will be active on the beach.
Some mudskippers tend to be vegetarian, but most of them are carnivorous. Many of them are mainly fed by various small creatures on the beach or river beach, such as polychaetes such as nereis and crabs, crustaceans or small terrestrial insects such as ants and grasshoppers. These habits are somewhat similar to the gobies and tigers we have seen.
Choosing land and water tanks for aquaculture requires beautification, shallows and anti-jumping.
It is best to raise mudskippers.
Land and water tanks are the main ones.
, you can properly maintain a certain amount of water flow, and the feeding space must be wider. You need to set a certain amount of bottom sand, landscaping, and a wide beach environment.
Because of its strong jumping ability, it is not suitable for raising at high water level. It is best to set the shoal in the center of the amphibious tank, at least away from the edge of the fish tank.
If it is not an amphibious tank environment, it is necessary to place stones and other items to provide land for it. These all need to be based on their living habits. It is better to let them have a place to build their own nests, which is more perfect.
It can be said that mudskippers living on land are not afraid of hypoxia, but the aquatic environment in which they are raised must be
Ensure the quality of fresh water,
There must also be a certain circulating filtration system. Because of their shallow water level, this kind of water quality is actually more difficult to control, and the oxygen content in the water needs to be guaranteed.
Freshwater mudskippers sold in the market are generally red-fin mudskippers, and the staple food is meat. We can feed them such as black shell shrimp, red worm, bumper shrimp, Tenebrio molitor and all kinds of palatable small fish and shrimp, and try not to feed them floating fish feed.
At the same time, according to many fish friends who have raised mudskippers, mudskippers are very interactive and predatory, and will soon become familiar with their owners to cultivate their interactivity.
We can feed them fish, shrimp or worms with tweezers, and don't throw food into the water at will.
They will compete for food from fish owners in the shallows,
We will also see them jumping for food.
Most mudskippers are not suitable for low-temperature culture, and the best temperature range is about 20 degrees, otherwise the state is not good. Of course, when raising them, you must be careful about escaping from prison.
More importantly, we should either keep these lovely little creatures as pets or let them thrive in nature.
Don't always think about eating, eating and eating.
What's the size of something more than ten centimeters?
In many introduction materials about mudskippers, one thing is mentioned without exception, that is:
After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the biggest natural enemy of mudskippers is not seabirds, crabs or turtles, but us humans.