Love fish farming is from a young age, at that time in the market, a dollar to 5 goldfish fry, and then noisy for the mother to buy home, with canned bottles to raise, a few days goldfish fry died, sad, and then argue with the mother to buy.
When I was in college, I raised Thai fighting fish in my dormitory, which is the kind of fish printed on the outer packaging of the fruit 6s mobile phone now, but at that time I raised a horsetail, 5, 10 fast, cheap, tap water can be raised, durable.
Later, I graduated from college, worked, got married, had my own home, and of course, the hobby of raising fish did not give up.
I began to study on major aquarium forums, and I have taken many detours, and it is estimated that I am also walking now.
Then buy a fish tank, raise it up ~ raise all kinds of fish, aquatic weeds, and then slowly... The wallet is flat
Then, while visiting the forum, I found this fish --- short seabream on the title map
"Short seabream, English name: dwarf cichlid Origin: South America, West African bush waters. Adults are generally 4–10 cm long. In the aquarium world, the Definition of the South American Bream is a seabream native to tropical and subtropical adult fish less than 10 cm long in South America, this type of small fish living in freshwater has a bright color, interesting behavior, and amazing reproductive ability, and is one of the fastest breeding species in the world. ”
------------ quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia
Above the picture, it is because of their color, body shape, living environment, breeding methods, etc. fell in love with them, these photos were sent to our aquarists by a short seabream predecessor before, several years ago he took it himself, very professional, borrow it.
Chief Bream
The name of this short seabream is called sail because its dorsal fin resembles the sail of a ship
Elizabeth bream
Akashi snapper
This photo of Elizabeth's snapper was taken by a macau aquarist about his fish.
The fish in the picture is my first short seabream in the real sense, he is the F1 offspring of Qinhuangdao aquarists bred by wild pairs of fish, when he took it back, it was still pressed, and then slowly grew up, but the female fish brought to me was actually a suppressed male fish, and then it did not grow up, and finally only this male fish was left, in order to find a wife for this male fish, it was a long time, and since then it has also brought me into the big pit of the short sea bream. This male fish should be almost 3 years old, which is also the longevity of the fish. (A while ago, unfortunately jumped into the cylinder, the soul returned to Amazon)
Let's take a look at the growth process of the fish, when I first arrived home, it was very fat, and the brushing of the fins did not come out
Due to the habits of the bream, put a small mirror, it will think that there is a male fish of the same kind, will show the fins of the fish, in an attempt to scare off themselves in the mirror
The antenna on the dorsal fin began to grow, and the caudal fin also became pointed
The body shape is restored, at this time mainly look at the antenna of the tail tip and dorsal fin
The color of the fins slowly turned red
It's already redder by this time---
This one is a slightly old photo...
Short snapper due to the sense of territory is too strong, a pair of fish theory to provide a minimum of 30cm * 30cm space, the depth of the water requirements are not too high, after all, some fish origin is a small ditch. And it is not recommended to polyculture of short seabream, adult polyculture needs a large tank, and increase as many dodges as possible, such as sinking wood aquatic grass, etc., otherwise two male fish will fight due to land, and even can be injured, killed, and even the losing party jumps the tank, which is not good. Therefore, aquaclists who raise short seabream will generally have a situation where the tank is not enough, and finally they will be on the group tank. The following is my family's cylinder, this year is not tossed, peace of mind for the New Year.
Purchased from Taobao wooden shelves, three 30 square tanks, for breeding (in fact, the water body is slightly smaller, 40 squares are more suitable) 90 * 45 * 45 large tanks for polyculture, fish in heat can be fished out into the breeding tank. It can also be used as a growth tank for seedlings. This photo is taken a long time ago, and later the 30 squares were also added to the back of the black background paper. Its practical aluminum alloy or stainless steel shelf is the best, the bottom layer can also put the fish tank, but considering that the children at home are only 3 years old and can't throw something in, or add a door at the bottom, put the filter bucket and debris.
Large cylinder slag landscaping, do not spray do not spray - -
A 40 square on the living room computer table, this tank is a little larger, which is good for the reproduction of fish, the water body is large, and the state of the fish will be much better. This was taken when the cylinder was just opened, and the water was not yet clear.
The wooden shelf is such a search link to the richest man's house in my house
Need to use their own screw connection, other places are mortise and mortise, this pine seems to be afraid of water, Taobao stores also help out ideas to calculate the size, back to receive or more satisfied.
Some traces of friction and squeezing can be seen
Assembled on the balcony
Finally, compared with my family's 60 * 40 * 40 tank, the back tank is not enough, added a barrier plate, raised two pairs of fish
This is how the sunken wood was first placed
At that time, it was summer, the water temperature was quite high, not suitable for planting grass, came a South American style landscaping, under the olive kernel leaf yellow water
At night, a dozen spotlights are also very beautiful
Slowly lift the cylinder
This is the process of using a tripod to secretly shoot the chief's spawning process At this time, I was a part-time camera director of the FISH AV world, hahahahaha
The breeding of bream is interesting and will be described in detail in a moment.
Insert a sentence, fish farming needs to be diligent, change the water, take care of the fish tank is more time-consuming, about these two cylinders one is just turned over the tank ~ one is to be turned over tank...
Let's first introduce the growth and living environment of the bream.
South American bream in South America 2/3 of the area is its distribution range, mainly distributed in south America Amazon (Amazon) basin, Rio Orinoco (Rio Orinoco) basin (Rio Parana) basin, adapted to water quality pH range from 4.5 to 6.8, water temperature 26-28 degrees Celsius, in general, bias to weak acid soft water is not wrong direction.
Short snapper body length in the captive environment generally does not exceed 10cm, so called short seabream, according to the dorsal fin, tail fin of different shapes of the performance classification, the more common on the market are phoenix series (Dutch phoenix, golden wave, royal blue phoenix), phoenix tail family, Akashi family, chieftain family, high-end point of the sail, dragon striped short seabream, and the only B genus short seabream, emerald and so on. Prices range from 10 pieces to 1000 pieces.
Introduction to the various species of fish
It is generally relatively easy to feed short seabream, tanks, filtration, stable water bodies, lighting, in order to ornamental fish fascinating body color. Then there is breeding, the bream has two spawning methods, one is the cave type, these fish will find well-hidden burrows, sunken wood, and even dead leaves to spawn and reproduce. In general, the eggs are attached to the upper part of the cave and are mostly red. Typical representatives are the Akasi family, the chieftain family, the sails. The other is open-ended, the so-called open-ended fish will lay eggs to a relatively open position, such as the foliage of aquatic grasses, stones and other planes, etc., generally without shelter.
Short seabream is also a male fish rich in color, especially beautiful. The mother fish is relatively simple in color, after the general fish reaches adulthood, the water body meets the breeding conditions (the general water is controlled at about 6, TDS 100 on the line) can be shocked by water temperature, PH shock and other stimulation of the mother fish to spawn in heat, the breeding of the short seabream is particularly interesting, in the absence of estrus reproduction, it is generally the male fish to suppress the female fish, it is best to raise separately when the fish is sub-formed, and when the mother fish body is yellow, when the marriage color is displayed, it can be closed, and the male fish will open all the fins to the female fish, showing the richest and most beautiful colors. The female then examines the cave chosen by the male, shows it to each other, and enters the cave together to lay eggs and fertilize. After the mother lays eggs, it will guard the side of the egg, eat the unfertilized white eggs, and constantly instigate the fins to create water flow, bringing oxygen-rich water flow to the eggs, at this time the mother fish is particularly irritable, will attack any fish that tries to get close to the eggs, shrimp and other organisms, male fish is no exception, general artificial breeding due to the lack of water body, will quietly fish out the male fish after turning off the lights at night. Of course, if the water body is large enough, the female male fish is not too strong, you can also bring small fish together.
This is a photo taken by the chief when she laid her eggs, but the female fish did not bring seedlings, and swallowed eggs several times, causing the chief to die
Dense phobias are cautious (not particularly dense yet--)
This is a photo I took when I first successfully bred the Inca parrot bream on March 5, 2015, when there was no macro head, and it took 50 fixed shots to shoot a small seedling that died.
Generally after spawning 7 to 10 days can see the small seedlings take off, during this period try not to disturb the female fish, the mother fish in the case of unsafe, will swallow the eggs, at this time try to feed as little as possible, maintain water quality, evaporate more water to make up for the water into. After seeing the small fish take off, they can catch up with the shrimp in the incubation of the harvest year, and use the harvest shrimp to open the mouth for the small fish. Below is a simple device for hatching shrimp in the harvest. Generally, after 24-48 hours, the shrimp hatches out, and the shell of the shrimp can be separated after stopping the air and standing still for a period of time.
Harvest shrimp larvae after isolation
Egg shell floating on top
Then keep the water stable and feed the seedlings 2-4 times a day to the shrimp larvae. You will see the seedlings grow. The female will watch over the fry after they take off, and the straight female will be in heat for the second time. During this period, the female fish will put the outliers back into the small fry with their mouths, and where the mother fish swims, a group of small fry follows where it is particularly powerful.
The photo below is an irregular photo of a few small seedlings slowly growing up. The sex problem of fry has been experimented with the god of fish farming, taking the Inca parrot as an example, when the egg hatches, the water temperature is lower than 26 ° the fry are basically the mother fish, the egg is higher than 26 ° when the egg is hatched, the sex of the fry is basically male fish after adulthood, my litter of Inca has survived a total of 6, the whole mother --. Generally, the first nest of fish bred by a pair of bream is slightly smaller, and 10-20 eggs take off last. In the future, the number of breeding will be more and more, and we have ayumist fish, a nest of 100+ easily take off...
Bream is not as stupid as a peacock, and its own children eat it --
Below is a photo of the second litter of Inca parrots breeding
This long was taken when the seedlings first took off.
The above is the small process of raising short seabream in my year, still can't come out of the pit, there are people who like this cute little fish, welcome to jump into the pit.
Finally, I found my growing swallowtail chessboard bream.
Finally, here's a good time. Buy it again and chop your hands.