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Reprinted from Nine Trees, author Nine Sisters
What I want to introduce today is high intelligence, high appearance; there is a house and a land, only to the daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law will fight desperately, and can also look after a group of babies
South American snapper
If the lantern fish in the grass tank is to appreciate the beauty of the group swimming, then the short seabream is the finishing touch of the aquatic grass, beautiful colors, excellent interactivity and expressiveness, as if the existence of diamonds in the water.
Let's first get to know the Dwarf Cichlid, a generic term for small cichlid fish. Home in the weakly acidic waters of West Africa and South America. Today, the nine sisters share with you are the Amazon basin kawaii rich handsome, mini elves, South American short fish.
Many people think that the short seabream is a high-end and difficult fish species (expensive and love to die), but it is not. They come in many varieties, some of which are inexpensive, such as the Dutch phoenix, which are easy to breed and properly reared, and you will soon have a tank of short seabream baby.
However, it is best for novices to start from a simple start, avoid buying neurotic or higher-priced fish fingerlings, so as not to be hit by failure. The following nine sisters tell you several of the easiest breeds to breed.
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Dutch Phoenix
﹝Papilochromis ramirezi﹞
The most common and cheapest South American snapper on the market is brightly colored and very easy to raise and breed. The body size is slightly larger than other varieties. A master of eating black-shelled shrimp.
The super cute wave is an artificial modification of the Dutch phoenix, also known as the Dutch phoenix ball. The artificially improved waveform system is really weak.
Below is the blue wave, also known as the Avatar wave. Two avatars fighting with their mouths. Some highly intelligent fish have this behavior, this is not kissing, people are desperately trying to be good!
This is a golden wave that Jiu Mei raised herself, very beautiful, raised for more than a year, but unfortunately later the ascites left. Time is hard to stay, and what was once amazing and agile has become frozen. But now without its grass tank, it always feels that the protagonist is missing.
2
Akashi
(Apistogramma agassizii)
This is the genus with the most species of shortbream in South America, the production, color and pattern of fish in different regions are different, it is not enough to define this species with Akasi, many of them are obviously different subspecies, even different species, and no less than sixty kinds of mutant varieties of the same type have been found.
The more common varieties are: wild Akashi, yellowtail, red tail, white tail and other natural types, as well as artificially bred offspring, such as the common super red-tailed Akashi, flame Akashi and so on;
Blue-bodyed super red-tailed Akashi
Whitewater Akashi (artificial species)
Alenka Akashi
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Ukayari Akashi
Blood Flame Akashi
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Anchovy snapper
Cacatuoid apistogramma
They get their name from the tail. Distributed in the upper reaches of the Amazon, it is mostly found in white turbid waters and clear waters, and there is no large presence in black waters. These natural parameters make them easier to raise in fish tanks.
Orange sail phoenixtail
Males have flaming tail fins and dorsal fins.
The female fish is bright and clear yellow. As a competent mother, the fish mother will always keep an eye on the baby, making sure they are all active in their own jurisdiction.
As soon as a mischievous child runs away, she will immediately go and take the child in her mouth and take it home.
Happy and warm pictures are always too short, happy family. Look at the husband's hairstyle!
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Chief Bream
﹝Apitogramma bitaeniata﹞
The figure is relatively slender, the tail fin is harp-shaped and the upper and lower edges are filamentous outwards, and the pattern on the tail is a checkerboard pattern, or a fringed combination of lines. The dorsal fin expands outwards to form a jagged fin membrane, and the hyperactive state and mood changes produce blue and red "boastful colors".
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Golden snapper
(Apistogramma borelli)
One is an Amazon river product species with a golden sheen on the head and a flashing blue light on the side of the body, and the following is male.
One is a small Paraguayan river product species with red-and-blue patches on the gill cover.
Mature males have large and long dorsal fins that can be fully extended and are very beautiful. Why does this handsome guy's eyes look like a joke.
The female fish is a completely different color. I am taking the small fish golden snapper mother and giving birth to a lot of babies.
To coax so many babies to sleep...
Three-line bream
(Apistogramma trifasciata)
Under the artificial mass breeding, the quality difference of the three-line seabream is becoming more and more prominent, and in fact, the biggest mystery of the three-line seabream is the dream-like blue metal on the wild individual.
Gold-headed blue three-line
The above fish are some of the fish species that are easy to raise and breed, and the price is not so high, suitable for people who are new to raising short seabream. After reading the above, are you moved, the following teaches you how to raise short fish.
How to pick?
When buying
When purchasing short seabream, in addition to observing whether their swimming posture and body color are normal, we must also pay attention to the choice of body shape, and individuals with hunchback, curved spine or sagging tail fins should try to avoid selection.
Below is a demonstration of the perfect quality.
Match?
I want to have a baby
Raising short-lived fish, you must watch it breed, in order to deeply understand the high IQ and high emotional intelligence of short-lived. Therefore, raising short-lived sturgeon must be paired in pairs.
The fish shop pairs the adult snappers at a high price, so we can choose Yacheng or Seedlings to buy back and pair them ourselves. There are the following pairing methods:
1. Long-term love. There will always be feelings after a long time. A male and a female have been raised together for a long time, and the probability of their own pairing is very large, and at the beginning, the male fish may chase the female fish, so there are more shelters such as aquatic weeds, and the female fish is hidden.
2, a lot of one to raise together. If it is a cheap seedling, you can buy a few more, find a large tank of mixed breeding, and when they grow up, they are happy with each other, at this time you have to fish out the husband and wife to raise, otherwise they will attack others. Husband and wife are in the same heart, and the consequences are terrible.
3. One male and two females. Put a male and two females in the same tank, the two females will compete for the wind and jealousy, do their best to attract male fish, although there are male fish with flowers, but he can only choose one of the two in the end to match, then to find the husband of the female fish fish to other tanks, so as not to be physically and mentally destroyed.
4. Separate feeding. What if you only bought one pair, but they don't look at it for a long time? Don't be in a hurry, keep them separately for a while. Kubetsu is newly married. They are all the same as the lowly, and they know how to cherish it without it. After a while, when they feel empty and lonely and cold, let them reunite, the lonely heart has long been lit dry wood fire, long drought and manna, cave flower candle night!
Still not born?
Due
If the mother fish has a big belly, but just does not give birth, you have many ways to help give birth. For example, the use of lamp cycle, adjust the water temperature, change the feeding of live feed and other methods of control. Specifically:
1, the water quality anyway to change the water once a week, you can observe the mother and child of the mother and child to change the water, water quality changes help to promote spawning. But in fact, there is no need to be so deliberate, change the water regularly every week, and give birth when it is time to be born. Don't rush the matter of having a child, you can't be in a hurry.
2. Improve feed. If you have been fed pellet feed, change it to raw bait for you to see, full of warm lust! As a master shrimp eater, if you feed them black shells, they will be very happy with your gifted feast, and they will be excited to get their whole body colored! Only when you have enough to eat can you have the strength to live.
Raw!
Two days later
1. The mother fish incubates herself
As the strongest representative of motherhood in fish, watching the breeding of short seabream is the greatest pleasure of breeding, it is best to let the mother fish bring her own small fish, you can also observe the happiness of the little fish.
The female hatches on her own, and the success rate is relatively high, you can see the male fish patrolling around the seabream tank, driving away any fish and shrimp snails that try to get close, while the female fish constantly agitates the pectoral fin at home to make the water flow and let the eggs have enough oxygen.
In about two days, the small fish hatched. The newly hatched fish are very timid, dare not go out of the house, and need the encouragement of their mothers. Eating shrimp eggs in a good year should also be taken home to eat. The red-bellied phoenix silently raised by aquarists below, the reason why this article does not mention this type, is because it is from West Africa, not South America, don't be confused.
2, you incubate for it
Well, if a female fish hangs up by accident, or you find out that it eats eggs, then you have to go on your own.
You should first prepare a basin of clean water, add a little methyl blue, make the water light blue, and then move the egg-laying seabream tank in, with the opening facing up, insert the bubble stone connected to the air pump and the atmosphere, so that the water around the egg can flow, in order to provide the oxygen needed for hatching, while avoiding water mold attachment.
The whitish eggs in the image below are unfertilized or spoiled.
What to eat?
Little baby
After hatching, the small fish have an egg yolk on their body, which can provide about four days of nutrition.
As it grows, the yolk gradually fades, and when you see that the yolk is about to disappear, you must prepare to hatch the shrimp in the harvest year.
Harvest shrimp metamorphosis after a few hours of hatching, metamorphosis! Its size will become larger, and small fish will not be able to swallow, so the hatching of the shrimp must be the best time to grasp.
What does a native snapper look like?
Oh yes, what kind of tank is the short-lived cattail's favorite?
Tall grass tanks are of course good, but they are too bright for them and insecure.
Therefore, many players who raise wild short-fish will choose to set up a separate seabream tank to simulate the scene of the native land. For example, the Polish player's biotope below, the original cylinder does not need powerful lights, this cylinder only uses 18w lights and an internal filter.
The fine sediment of the stream is covered with trees and branches that sink into the water, and with the thick leaves that fall naturally, the natural environment for the short seabream to hide and reproduce is formed, and the dim light just simulates the dim water color of the black water basin.
The above is a perfect scene of native seabream, which can be mixed with South American alien ratfish and lamp fish.
Native beauty, there is wild game Oh ~