There are many kinds of bream, each of which has a slightly different behavior, such as courtship, spawning, and behavior. Small size, very suitable for small space feeding, a pair of short seabream with a fish tank of about a foot or so is enough, about the understanding of the habits of short seabream, and breeding methods, the following articles to learn together.
Native to South America, the South American bream is a brightly colored small ornamental fish.
First, the basic understanding of the habits of the bream
1, like aquatic grass secret:
The bream prefers high concealment for its habitat, sinking wood, bamboo tubes or stones, and the aquatic plants planted on the bottom are not uncommon, such as crown grass, iron crown, large banyan tree, small banyan tree, deer horn iron crown... And so on are excellent options.
2, love dim light:
Most of the bream love dim lights, which is why some people are revealing the darker sand and painting the walls around the fish tank in a grayish color. All in all, you don't need a lot of space to enjoy raising snappers.
3. Bright color of estrus:
When the fish is in heat, the body color will become bright, and the body color of the short seabream mother fish will become yellower, and start to court the opposite sex, revealing the most vivid and bright side to the opposite sex to attract each other, and some short seabreams are even still monogamous!
4, the fish tank requirements are not high:
The largest adult bream is about 6 to 7 cm, and only the larger ones in the smaller sector will grow to about 10 cm. So it is enough to raise a pair of short seabream in a fish tank of one and a half feet or even a foot. The height of the aquarium is not less than 20 cm.
Second, the precautions for the feeding of short seabream
1. Water quality PH value requirements:
Water quality requirements are acidic, about PH5 up and down error 0.5 is the best PH value, with low PH value of water to raise short seabream is naturally not easy to see short seabream appear in the head cave surface ulcer camel nematode and other diseases, the color of the fish is also more beautiful.
2. Fish tank environment settings:
A thin layer of bottom sand can be used to avoid alkaline materials, coral sand black and white stone, etc., Japanese ADA black soil is more suitable, can be set up sunken wood or pottery urn and planting small banyan and other negative aquatic weeds, for short seabream hiding and breeding space.
3. Feeding method of short seabream:
Pellet feed once a day, the amount of feeding is related to the ability to control water quality, feeding less is definitely safer than feeding well, unless the breeding needs to be fed a little frozen shrimp, otherwise the pellet feed is absolutely sufficient.
4. Method of water change times:
Change the amount of water slowly added once do not too much, change 1/3 of the week, add water quality stabilizer or add water tank after treatment, the cylinder with nitrate removal agent can reduce the number and area of the use of siphon suction bottom sand.
Third, the identification method of male and female short seabream
1. Differences in estrus body color:
Most female fish in estrus, the body will appear bright golden yellow, at this time can be distinguished at a glance who is the male fish, who is the female fish. After the male fish is in heat or mating, the body will emit a more dazzling color, and it will also open its fins from time to time.
2. Body dorsal fin width:
In general, the female fish will be fatter and shorter, while the male fish tends to be slender and the ratio of dorsal fin to body width is also relatively large. Short seabream whose dorsal fin is more than half the width of the body is usually a male fish, while if the dorsal fin width is about half the width or less, it is a female fish.
3. The color of the female fish's abdominal fin:
The abdominal fins of the short sea bream are usually short and black, but it should be noted that the abdominal fins of the baby fish are usually also black, so it is not so easy to determine. Some species, such as the chessboard seabream, usually have orange-red ventral fins as females.
Fourth, the breeding and incubation and management of bream
1. Hatching time of baby fish:
The color of the water and the feed fed affect the frequency with which the broodstock spawn, and if it goes well, spawning will take about two weeks. Generally speaking, the mother fish is allowed to bring small fish, and from the day of egg laying, it will swim out with the mother for less than a week.
2. Pay attention to changes in water quality
Because the newly hatched small fish have egg sacs that have not yet been fully absorbed, they can be absorbed for 72 hours, so on the seventh day the mother fish will bring the small fish out of the clay pot. Avoid water quality changes too quickly, causing the baby fish to die, the mother fish will take care of the baby fish for two to four weeks, during this period to try to avoid a large number of water changes, so as not to change the water quality too quickly, causing the baby fish to die.
3. Feeding method of baby fish:
Due to the small caliber of the short sea bream, it is generally fed with uncontrolled young shrimp, if in order to save money, in fact, you can also use egg yolk to feed, but pay attention to, to eat in line with the principle of more meals and less feeding, do not pollute the water quality.
4. Use grass mud pills to reduce acid
As for acid reduction, it is enough to keep it between 5-7, but there are stricter restrictions for some short seabream, such as red sails, Jimbo, etc. In addition, the PH value also has a great relationship with the sex of the fry, if the difference is too large, it may also make the small fish appear a single sex, if you want to reduce acid, it is recommended to use grass mud balls.
