Looking at the slowly swimming figures of those newborn juveniles in the fish tank, is it a super happiness? The breeding of tropical fish is very simple, as long as it can meet its basic spawning conditions, it can be let go. But the way some tropical fish reproduce is quite amazing. The following will introduce you to several strange breeding methods of tropical fish.
Raise juveniles in your mouth! Oral breeding of tropical fish
Here are a few rare tropical fish that raise their juveniles in their mouths. Although these tropical fish are very difficult to raise, do you feel good about the eggs and baby fish in your mouth?
Akashi snapper
Spawning in places resembling semicircular coconut shells, hatching small fish is held in the mouth until the baby fish is raised into a fish, which is a small tropical fish. Before mating, the female will tightly entangle the male, and after spawning, the role will be reversed, and the male will chase the female everywhere. Therefore, special attention needs to be paid after spawning, and they should be placed in different fish tanks.
African cichlid
African cichlids are tropical fish that are raised in their mouths from the beginning of their eggs. Males and females with bulging abdomen swim in circles on a smooth stone surface or container, and after giving birth, female cichlids will take the eggs in their mouths and let them combine with the male sperm in their mouths, and after the eggs are fertilized, the females will begin to stop eating in order to raise the young fish. In order to raise the next generation, they are also enough to fight.
Tropical fish that make bubble nests and guard the baby eggs inside the bubbles
Create many bubbles on the surface of the water, raise fish in bubbles, and tropical fish breed in a strange way!
Fighting fish
Beautiful tropical fish that are kept in glass bottles are a common impression of fighting fish. But if you look closely, you will find that there are bucket fish on the surface of the water inside the bottle making bubbles. In the world of fighting fish, the male is solely responsible for raising young fish, and the male who is good at making bubbles means that he is also excellent at parenting. From their names, it can be seen that the fighting fish is a tropical fish with a rather violent temperament, after the male fighting fish has made a bubble nest, and then put the male and female fighting fish in the same fish tank, it will soon be seen that the male fighting fish begins to chase the female fighting fish rapidly, and the female is tightly hugged next to the bubble nest to let it lay eggs. The male then uses its mouth to hold the falling fertilized egg and move it inside the bubble. Whenever the eggs or juveniles fall, the male fighting fish will rush to put them into the bubbles, and it is really deeply touching to see the figure of the fighting fish swimming back and forth.
Husband and wife work together, a comforting tropical fish parenting model
I believe that the domineering parenting method of fighting fish will touch many female friends, but this is also too rude. Pairing up with your favorite other half and raising young fish diligently together is still a more acceptable model.
Angel fish
Angel fish spawn in flat places, so they need to be prepared with aquatic plants with large leaves or special utensils. Angel fish that form a "couple" will obsessively search for spawning places. After the spawning site is determined, they will clean up the place and lay the eggs on it cleanly, and before the eggs hatch, the angel fish couple will continue to use their fins to deliver fresh air to the baby eggs.
After the eggs hatch, they will move the baby fish to a safe place diligently, and the angel fish couple will continue to work together to take care of the young fish until they can swim freely.
Colorful angelfish
The parenting order of the colorful angelfish is similar to that of the angelfish, but after the colorful angelfish hatches, the juvenile fish will be attached to the parents.
Juveniles grow up by sucking up mucus from the surface of their parents' bodies called angel fish milk. Watching the little colorful angelfish sticking together with the fish daddy fish mother is really warm and fun.
Snapper
Seabream is originally a tropical fish with a beautiful body, and during the breeding season they become more colorful. After the male and female seabream are paired, they will choose to lay eggs in smooth stones or plain-roasted ceramic pots, and if the bottom sand is particularly thin, they will use their bodies to make a pit in the bottom sand and lay eggs in it.
After spawning, they will cooperate with each other to protect the baby, and although they are small tropical fish, they spare no effort in raising the baby. After hatching, one side of them will continue to move the juvenile fish to some extent until they grow into fish.
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