Blue Nine, after people are accustomed to seeing the square blue elves of the Six Crowns and the Six Houses of Say Blue, perhaps a small blue long fish with more longitudinal stripes will enter your field of vision. Its body length can reach up to 13 cm, and the lines on its body are as many as nine, and its blue color is not inferior to the Three Lakes Cichlid species such as Sayi Blue, which is another kind of elf hidden in Lake Tanganyika - Blue Nine.
English name: Terete Lamprologus
Scientific name: Neolamprologus cylindricus
Hardness: 10.0-15.0°dGH
Feeding: Artificial feed live bait
Environment: Rocky waters
Length: 11 to 13 cm
Food: omnivorous is not picky eaters, artificial feeding can be used flakes, pellet feed, live bait (higher proportion of protein)
Water quality: 22 ~ 30 °C, hard water 10 ~ 15dH, pH 8 ~ 9.4
Fish tank: more than 150 liters, more than 3 feet tank is better, need stone stack
Sex: There is no significant difference between male and female between blue nine (mature male fish are taller)
Habits: The same attack situation between the blue nine is obvious, and there are fewer pairs after pairing, so it is recommended to raise only one pair
Breeding: Blue Nine Matrix Breeding Type, laying eggs in caves, about 60 to 150 eggs at a time, about 4 to 5 days of incubation, about 2 weeks can swim around, during which the parents will protect the juveniles, but may drive them away at the next spawn.
Features: On the body of the blue nine, elegant and beautiful white lines are mixed with tea brown, and the fin members shine with blue luster; The body is long and thin, with nearly a dozen dark horizontal stripes extending downward from the back, and the face has blue lines. Blue Nine does not exhibit the polymorphism of the Yellow Bird of Paradise, but shortly after the fish was discovered, an individual called the Golden Nine was exported to the market, the adult fish have a brown-yellow body color, and the juvenile fish are significantly different from the adult fish: from the back of the neck all the way to the whole body is covered with yellow patches, unfortunately it is not known where this strain was collected, but the yellow adult fish was found in Isanga, Zambia, the southernmost boundary of the distribution of the fish population There are data showing that the blue nine room is best not to be polycultured with the yellow bird of paradise to avoid serious losses, and the adult blue nine room has several sharp teeth in the mouth, which can cause more serious damage to the individual.
In the wild, the Blue Nine is only distributed in Tanzania, they are commonly found on the bottom of the water and rocks, often feeding on widows and even small fish, and their habitat preference is rocky areas with a water depth of no more than 10 meters.
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