Five and a half, the vast three lakes cichlid anchovies who are accustomed to six fish seem to rarely see a kind of Lake Tanganyika cichlid with only five horizontal bands, but if you look closely, its beauty is not at all inferior to the six fish species such as Sayi Blue Six and Mambo Six, this is the Five and a Half Fish, it is a very beautiful small fish, its fins and other parts of the body have a neon-like and purple-blue silhouette. Because of his rarity in the fish market, it is even more precious.
Environment: Rocky staggered waters and rocky areas Length: five and a half fish up to about 16 cm,
Food: omnivorous is more carnivorous, artificial feeding can be used flakes, pellet feed, live bait
Water quality: 23 ~ 26 °C, hard water 8-18 dH (14), pH 7.5 ~ 8.3
Fish tank: more than 150 liters, more than 3 feet tank is better, need sand and flat stones
Gender: There is no significant difference between male and female
Features: The gill cover has dark blue bright spots, and the five and a half have five horizontal bands on the body, which are all blue after the growth of the five and a half individuals in Taiwan
Habits: Five and a half pairs of the same species are quite aggressive, even if the large jar is the best to raise only one pair
Breeding: Five and a half belong to the matrix breeding type, the female fish dig a pit under the rock to spawn, about 500 eggs at a time, hatch after 2 days but swim after 9 to 11 days, and the male and female are jointly responsible for hatching: the female is close to the juvenile and the male is guarded on the periphery.
The five-and-a-half throat teeth are thick and short. Feeding mainly on insect larvae and crustaceans, and five and a half also feeding on small snails, they may have adapted to eat snails, these foods are not his main food source, but they are readily available to help them survive the extraordinary period of general food shortages, and the five half-throated strong teeth can crush not only snail shells, but also crush the bunkers of mussels, shrimp shells and stone silkworm moth larvae, which are not often eaten by other species of fish.