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Speaking of the most common in fish shops, medium and large tropical ornamental fish, most aquarists open their mouths to come, that is: parrots, maps and silver dragons, at most plus a fortune fish.
These most common tropical medium-sized ornamental fish, are regular customers in all fish shops, many new aquarists, just began to raise medium and large tropical ornamental fish, basically from these varieties to start, they are also in China's ornamental fish market for many years, conservative estimates, at least more than thirty years.
However, if we talk about their price movements, it is all the way down, and, except for a few new aquarists, many old aquarists have long lost interest in them.
If you go back to thirty years ago, the map fish is also a high-end species of ornamental fish, the price is also not cheap, the small map fry is also everywhere, you can catch small live fish yourself, and slowly raise the map fish from a small age, it is also a pleasure.
However, one problem is that once the map fish grow up, it is very troublesome, the amount of feeding, estrus, fighting are all problems, and there may be tank bullies, and another is that it looks like those few colors, and now these map fish, almost nothing good in terms of good looks.
When we first raised map fish, it was absolutely necessary to choose the color and appearance, and the wild map could not be seen at all, who would buy it?
Now, reversed, there are more and more varieties of wild maps, and the price has been speculated, and the artificially bred map fish with really good colors can no longer be seen.
Because map fish are too cheap, small fry have almost disappeared, and most of them are more than fifteen centimeters or even larger purchased in fish shops.
After arriving home, the direct fish feed will be fed, and it is not as elaborate as raising from small fry, there is no emotion, and another is that small fish are difficult to catch.
Even if there are a lot of small fish to feed, within a year, these semi-large map fish, become big guys, that is not sent out, a one-meter fish tank, raising three or two adult maps, it is too much, the space for other fish is gone.
In addition, the eating and drinking of this thing is too serious, and the water quality is not easy to control.
The recent situation of parrot fish is also not optimistic, relatively cheap currency varieties, small fry are not common, too small fry, black veil phenomenon is more serious, but also need to be slowly adjusted.
And the larger parrot fish, in the fish shop to see the red, after returning home into the tank, due to various reasons, including depression, lighting, background, indiscriminate polyculture, the tank is too large and other reasons, resulting in their long-term inability to come out of the state, naturally not so red when purchased.
These ordinary parrot fish, it is impossible to feed high-grade fish feed, generally are mid-range mainly, sometimes the whole tank of water is also red, less, all day long there to be afraid of not coming out, raising more, water quality began to be more difficult to control, and want them to be red all day, it is necessary to go all the way to the end of the high temperature, these are more contradictory problems.
What is more infuriating is that the parrot fish has reached the estrus period, the fight is also very fierce, spawning everywhere in the fish tank, and can not hatch out of small fish, some parrot fish once in heat, the body color will be white, as long as it is not breeding, it has always been that color, which loses a certain ornamentality, many aquarists raise and raise, but also think of changing fish.
Among all the Arowana species, the silver Arowana is the lowest grade, and it can be regarded as a no-no.
Very few aquarists will keep only one silver arowana in the tank and no other ornamental fish.
The general breeding of silver dragons likes to be raised from an early age, which will lead to various troubles brought about by the disadvantages of polyculture, such as small dragon fish timidity, lying in the tank, losing eyes, grabbing food and grabbing parrot fish and maps or recruiting wealth, slow growth, depressed mood, and other problems will be exposed.
If a fish tank raises too many silver Arowana fish, they will continue to fight, although the number of points may be suppressed, but want the fur not to go, to maintain the perfect appearance, almost impossible, some aquarists in the polyculture tank to raise silver Arowana, and finally the silver dragon poured into a fish, because of the water temperature, food and other issues, can not be mixed at all, once the tears, it is enough.
Another is that once the silver arowana grows, to a certain age of the fish, in the feeding to be extra careful, a little careless, today to eat more, tomorrow can not grab food, the day after tomorrow stuffed into the mouth into a large fish, so that the child is uneven, it is easy to hang up, most of the aquarists, raising silver dragons, rarely raised more than sixty or seventy centimeters, halfway hung up.
After several consecutive blows, he vowed never to raise a silver dragon again.
These problems are all contradictions that we have to face.
In the old fish shop here, we often saw silver dragons with a body length of one meter, even if it was in a fish tank of one meter and two meters, stuffed with three, there was no problem, now it is almost invisible, they are some semi-large individuals, and the aquarists who really use the cultivation function on the silver arowana are almost non-existent, that is, they are just raising and playing, and it is not worth a lot of money.
In addition, there is so much room for breeds to choose from now, with a wide variety of tropical ornamental fish species and more online.
For example, some of the more popular ornamental fish of the large and medium-sized cichlid family, now almost invisible, flower tigers, Texas leopards, large pencils, all kinds of firemouth fish, due to their rapid growth, rapid fighting, only a few enthusiasts are still playing, in the fish shop has almost disappeared.
Only the remaining three main varieties, in the eyes of new aquarists, are extremely easy to raise, at least for half a year, it is unlikely to want them to worship, even if they are raised, it is also very skinny.
Therefore, the parrot fish, map fish, silver arowana fish, and zhao cai fish continue to stick to the fish shop and stick to the arrival of new aquarists.
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