Friends who like to play breeding know that in recent years, an ornamental fish that can be raw than the "million fish" peacock fish - mini parrot fish has quickly become popular!
Mini parrot fish
Mini parrot fish began in Taiwan, because of its good skin, breeding fun, deeply loved by the majority of aquaclists!
As an old player with seven or eight cylinders of all sizes at home, how could you not want to try it!
Polar fire shrimp tank
Peacock fish tank
Mini parrot fish tank
Let's just do it, and directly free up the largest tank and put in 10 sapphire blue mini parrot seedlings.
You can buy fry to bring your own large, you can also buy a kind of fish directly, breeding fish is more expensive, but good belt, breeding waiting time is also relatively short.
I like to buy fry to bring up by myself, generally the market is about two months of fry, the body length is about 2cm.
Mini parrotfish generally mature around eight months and breed in pairs after maturity. Although the distinction between male and female is not as obvious as that of peacock fish, it is not very difficult.
Distinguish between male and female
Fish tank configuration
Breeding tank with 40 cylinder on the line, conditional best on the super white tank, indeed high permeability, but also good-looking, but ordinary cylinders can also be used.
Fish tank is fragile, online shopping, most of the stores are damaged, pay attention when buying!
A 40-tank can be used for two pairs of fish to breed at the same time, but it needs to be separated in the middle, which can be made by yourself or can be found online.
Before purchasing, you need to measure the height of the width of the fish tank, for example, the width is 230mm, the height is 250mm, and you can directly choose according to this size, or choose this one that is slightly smaller than this size.
You can choose 210mm*250mm, if you don't have the size you want, you can also contact the seller to customize.
Isolation plate
Filtration and oxygenation
Without filtration and oxygenation, it is possible to feed the fish, but it must not be well raised, so oxygenation and filtration must be matched.
Water Goblin
Water goblin can be called a breeding tank artifact, although the filtration ability is very general, but the dense and porous sponge structure wrapped around the water inlet, will not suck the fry away, rich bubbles to ensure the amount of dissolved oxygen in the tank, the price is also very cheap!
Water Goblin
Shinto's Water Goblin, I bought five or six, one for each breeding tank!
This water goblin is unpowered and needs to be used with an air pump.
I bought the YEE brand, the power is 3.5W, the double hole can adjust the air volume, one air pump with two water goblins, the bubbles are still abundant.
Placed next to the fish tank, you can hardly hear any sound when you sleep at night.
If you have more water goblins or small fish tanks, you can also buy two tee, so that one air pump can take four water goblins or oxygen to four small tanks!
Cheap and easy to use, you can also buy water goblins when asking the store to send you two.
tee
Bottom sand and breeding tanks
Bottom sand
Mini parrot fish can be raised without bottom sand and directly naked tanks, but this cargo mouth is cheap, like to play with small pebbles, so you can lay some river sand for them as a toy, or they are idle and have nothing to do, and it is not good to fight!
After buying the river sand, you need to rinse it, soak it in water and use it again.
The advantage of river sand is that it is cheap, clean and does not pollute the water quality. You can do some simple shapes with sunken wood, stone, etc.
There is no problem in planting some simple aquatic weeds, and the professional grass tank is still to buy aquatic weed mud!
Breeding tanks
The breeding jar of mini parrots is not the same as that of peacock fish, which will eat their own babies. Mini parrots not only do not eat their babies, but also take care of and guard them!
Therefore, the peacock fish breeding box is to isolate the big fish and the fry, and the breeding tank of the mini parrot fish is to provide a scene for the mini parrot to attack and retreat.
Friends who don't want to spend money, you can find an old teapot, succulent pots, as long as it is ceramic material, similar shape on the line.
Succulent pots
Isn't the price yummy? It's also very beautiful to plant aquatic plants!
Succulent pots are planted with aquatic weeds
Fish food
Adult mini parrot fish food
Adult mini parrots are hardly picky about fish and eat everything, but eating live food grows fastest, and water earthworms and fish worms are the best choice!
If you are careful, you can even find that the parents of the mini parrot fish will eat the big fish worms, and the small fish worms will return to the nest and give the small fish babies to eat!
So friends with conditions can choose to give the mini parrot fish live food!
If there is no fish market nearby, you are not afraid, you can buy frozen red worms or fish worms, which is not bad!
Mini parrot fish gastrointestinal discomfort is too good, before feeding the frozen red worms, first use a small bowl to melt the ice, it is best to put it at room temperature and then feed.
I bought it once, and the little fish ate very happily, but after the wife found it in the refrigerator, I was scolded.
Freeze-dried shrimp cubes are also a good choice, mini parrots love to eat, feeding and storage is more convenient!
Others like peacock fish food, koi fish food, broken can be fed!
In addition, the mini parrot is still a master of snail removal, originally there are many small miscellaneous snails in the tank, and this goods are directly eliminated after going in, and like melon seeds, they will also spit shells!
Mini parrot fry food
Hands-on ability, you can hatch the shrimp by yourself, the shrimp is the best open feed for fry.
With the hatched shrimp, the fry not only have a high survival rate, but also grow fast!
Figures save trouble, you can also use hard-boiled egg yolks. But pay attention to a small number of times, feed more easy to spoil the water.
After two weeks of opening, you can divide the tank with the big fish and feed the crushed fish food.
It is best to use a long straw when feeding and feed directly into the nest.
With this straw, no matter what you feed, you can accurately feed it, and the survival rate of the fry has increased a lot!
Signs of reproduction
Male and female fish chase each other around the breeding tank for a while, and then hide together in the jar to nibble on the wall of the tank, and when other fish approach, they will work together to drive away other fish, which is a successful pairing, not far from spawning.
At this time, you can isolate them into a breeding tank with a nest, and then try not to frighten or disturb them.
Mini parrot fish that are frightened during the breeding season may swallow eggs or eat their own fry.
Under the right conditions, within a week or so, the small fry will take off, the mini parrot fish will take care of their babies, those who accidentally leave the nest will be taken back, and other fish will be driven away when they get close!
In two weeks, we will basically pass the dangerous period, and it is still easy to bring it up!
If the feeding is good, the first litter of fry has just become independent, the second nest of eggs will be laid again, the interval between the two clutches of eggs is only two to three weeks, each clutch of eggs is about 100-300 grains, if they can be brought up, is it very productive?
About polyculture
Mini parrotfish have a strong sense of territory and like to chase each other, so they need to put some decorations in the tank that can be avoided.
It can be a sunken wood. Sunken wood can not only be decorated, but also adjust the PH value.
It can also be a stone such as turquoise. Turquoise is beautiful in shape, and its porous structure is very suitable for aquatic plant rooting attachment.
Mini parrot fish are best not polycultured with other fish, they will bite other fish, small in size, and they will be eaten directly!
I once mixed mini parrot fish with peacock fish and polar fire shrimp, and as a result, the peacock fish and extreme fire shrimp were basically destroyed!
Water temperature control
At 20-30 ° C water temperature, mini parrot fish can live very well, and it is best to control it at 26-28 ° C when breeding.
To tell the truth, where there is heating in the north, it is more suitable for fish farming than in the south. There is heating in winter, the temperature at home is basically constant at about 26 degrees, and in the summer, the home will not be too hot, and it is basically this temperature, and there is a period of time in the spring and autumn when the heating rod needs to be opened.
The temperature in the south is not so friendly, in the winter, the home is the same as the ice cave, 10 ° C can not go up, in the summer home can not move more than 30 ° C.
It's easy to heat up, it's hard to cool down! It's all RMB!
According to the volume of the fish tank to choose the power of the heating rod, the heating rod to buy large, not to buy small, not only the use of good effect, but also energy saving!
Heating rod selection
summary
Fish farming is a pit, digging deeper and deeper!
Mini parrot fish is a bottomless pit, while raising, while opening a new tank, but who called us like it!
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