When it comes to tiger fish, aquarists are the first to think of something. The standard configuration of arowana, domineering, easy to raise, the price difference is particularly large, from a few dozen dollars a piece of Indonesian tiger to tens of thousands of Thai tigers. Why do so many people like to raise tiger fish? What are the common tiger fish on the market, let's find out.
First, let's analyze why so many people like to raise tiger fish. Tiger fish is loved by aquarists for its contrasting body color, mottled patterns like tigers, and flexible eyes. Secondly, because the Chinese people believe that the dragon and tiger have the spirit of the king, so the popular dragon fish and tiger fish a tank, the general polyculture of the dragon fish will choose the tiger fish as a match, and the single raising of tiger fish is not a minority. However, after some goby fish enter the tank, the color is bright and bright, while some tiger fish immediately turn black into charcoal after entering the tank, and they cannot recover for a long time. One of the biggest reasons for this is that tiger fish are divided into several subspecies.
Next, let's look at several common goby fish on the market, which can be roughly divided into two categories: freshwater goby and semi-salted goby.
Freshwater goby: Thai goby, Indonesian goby, northern Thai goby, Vietnamese goby, Cambodian goby, Sumatran goby;
Semi-salted goby: silver goby, New Guinea goby.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > first, Thai tiger</h1>
Thai tigers, now the standard for the rich, also known as: three tigers, Nantos fish, fine scaled pine seabream, native to northern and central Thailand, not only in Thailand, the surrounding Mekong River Basin countries have. As a valuable edible fish in the local area, it is a primitive, large-scale fish species with high ornamental value and edible value.
The reason why the Thai tiger is expensive and different from other tiger fish is that compared with other tiger fish, it is not easy to turn black, so it has been kept in a relatively bright state. Purebred Thai tigers are relatively rare in the market, and as soon as they appear, they are priced in tens of thousands, so the ordinary aquaponic tanks are not Thai tigers.
In its infancy, the body color of the Thai tiger is white, with a black pattern, and the background color gradually becomes yellow after adulthood, forming a pattern like a tiger. The most iconic features of Tiger Thai are the bright yellow undertone and distinctive shading. Thai tigers can be divided into three stripes and four stripes, and most of them are three stripes, due to changes in the living environment, there are red and yellow skins. The posterior stripe of the three-striped Thai tiger's cheek cover is S-shaped, and the middle stripe is circular and pointed directly at the abdomen, parallel to the third black stripe. The Tiger taihu counts from the eye as the first room, a total of 6 and a half, and the half room refers to the penultimate third of the tail that does not run through the tiger fish, but ends at the beginning of the tail handle.
Selection precautions: First, body color, try to choose the fish merchant aquarium in the brighter Thai tiger, novices recommend buying yellow skin Thai tiger, not red skin Thai tiger. The second is the grain, especially the middle grain, to be thick, smooth, complete, can not have a break, like a machete, the belly should be deeply wrapped, to prevent the Tai tiger after growing up in the middle of the crack, the third line is best parallel to the middle grain, smooth. The third is the eyes, no eye diseases and congenital eye defects: such as diamond eyes (blindness), blindfold, false blindfold (caused by long-term breeding in the black tank), pupil collapse, pupil hypoplasia and other conditions.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, Indonesian tiger</h1>
Indonesian tiger, distributed in the Chao Phraya River Basin, sumatra, Indonesia in western Borneo. The price of the Indonesian tiger is not a little lower than that of the Thai tiger, and the general Ming tiger is about a few hundred yuan. This is due to the small size of the Indonesian tiger, the body color is easy to blacken, the grain is more complicated, and the appearance is poor. However, the price is close to the people, making the Indonesian tiger more common in the market. The number of Indonesian tiger rooms can be divided into three and four stripes, that is, seven and eight, and some tiger fish have seven and eight rooms on one side and one side. Seven Indonesian goby are about 800 yuan, eight Indonesian goby are about 600 yuan, and mature 40cm or so Indonesian goby is usually between 1000 and 2000 yuan. Seven of them are very similar to thai tigers, but the third of the seven Indonesian tigers will run through the tail handle, while thai tigers will not. The ratio of yellow to black in the eight Indonesian tigers is roughly 1:1, and the black stripes are thinner than those of the Thai tiger and the seven Indonesian tigers.
Selection precautions: one is symmetrical belly; the second is wide lines; the third is basically no miscellaneous or dark lines; four is wide body; fifth, there is no mouth drop, and there is no abnormality in the head.
brief summary:
This chapter introduces the basic situation and preliminary purchase methods of Thai tigers and Indonesian tigers, and in the next issue we will continue to introduce several types of tiger fish and corresponding fish selection strategies. See you in the next issue, talk about fish farming interesting facts, welcome aquarists to express their opinions below.