Most of the native fish on the mainland are relatively single in color, most of them are the main color of plain or dark color, and there are too few bright colors like striped catfish. If you look at the color alone, it is believed that it is a mixture of Chinese fish and Amazon fish.
It is the striped catfish, a species of fish in the genus Catfish in the family Cyprinidae. Alias Golden Bar, this name sounds like Dorjee. Now people like dragons, tigers, fortunes, gold bars are not bad.
Guangxi Qinzhou name: Ban Xingyu
Guangxi Guilin name: pumpkin seeds
Hong Kong name: five-line no-bearded catfish, commonly known as seven-star fish, red circles.
Striped catfish
It is found in ditches or streams between the plains of Chinese mainland and the western part of Taiwan Province.
The body is flattened, spindle-shaped, with a pair of whiskers, a red luster above the eyes, and large scales. The body is silvery blue , the back is darker , the abdomen is golden , and the sides of the body have 4 black stripes and a number of irregular small black spots. The caudal fin is forked , and the male has an orange-red band on the edges of the dorsal fin and caudal fin.
The male fish is smaller and bright in color; the female fish is larger, the belly is round, and the female fish has 4 to 6 obvious transverse spots on the side of the body, and the male fish has a bright red belly circle. In addition, the fins of the male and female are pale orange-red at the ends and the area around the eyes is also red. Therefore, the average fishing person is called "red-eyed boy".
Striped catfish
It prefers to inhabit the slow flow areas of canals, ditches and ponds in the middle and lower reaches of the plain rivers, and often swims with small fish of stone carp. Omnivorous, feeding on small invertebrates and filamentous algae, which can be domesticated to eat animal feed.
Its native land is mainly in the mainland Hong Kong and Taiwan Province, so the temperature control between 17-26 ° C can be normal life, pH is mainly neutral; the living environment is best close to the native place, do not add some rockeries and fake grass, to create a more basic native tank.
Remember not to polyculture, because some friends will consider polyculture, so they put shrimp and fighting fish, and the result is mostly comedy starts and tragedies end.
Striped catfish
Under the light, the hair color of the striped catfish is better. Some aquarists want to plant some aquatic plants in the fish tank, with landscaping, to create the beauty of the original tank. However, this idea is still relatively difficult to achieve. Striped catfish will nibble on aquatic weeds, and within a few days of planting them, they will be ruined.
Striped catfish
Most ornamental fish will eat a bite and sink underwater, then swim back to eat another bite, and the more ungrained koi will only eat one bite on the surface of the water and then eat another bite.
However, the striped catfish is basically particularly active every time it eats, more aggressive than koi, always stopping at the surface of the water when eating, arching back and forth like a bulldozer, and the eating efficiency is particularly fast. And this guy can put life and death aside in order to grab food, and the phenomenon of snatching food from the mouths of other fish is also common.
Striped catfish
The ornamental nature of this fish is that it is destined to be liked by everyone. Therefore, driven by the market, the demand for it in the ornamental fish industry will not decline. One of the most common native freshwater fish in Hong Kong, the resulting population of wild striped catfish is also decreasing, which is also expected.
Striped catfish
Previously, in 2012, the relevant departments of Taiwan Province found that the striped catfish were only distributed in the upper reaches of streams and ponds in Nantou and Changhua, Yunlin, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, Pingtung and other places, but there was no official documentary record in Tainan, which made the investigation team quite excited.
Striped catfish
According to the data inquiry, the Tree Valley Cultural Foundation invested funds in 2014 to establish the Saltwater Creek Ecological Indicator System, in addition to compiling literature.
The mission also began in May to conduct an in-depth investigation of the upper saltwater stream basin and found traces of striped catfish, and published its findings on October 1, 2014.
Investigators said that this is the first official record of striped mackerel in the Saltwater Creek Basin, and also found that the population has an existential crisis due to the threat of exotic fish species and environmental pollution, and only 10 of them are returned for observation and sampling, and then released or reborn as a mother group.