Many aquarists after seeing the seabream, in a very short period of time to dispose of the fish in their hands, join the united states bream army, the charm of the seabream can be imagined. Here are the hard goods that veteran sailors share with them.
Beautiful snapper those things
My relationship with The Seabream
Junior high school began to raise maps (at that time did not know that the map is beautiful seabream), there is no large tank, with small tanks, like to read the map to eat small fish. The maps raised in small tanks are not large due to local restrictions, and they are all raised as old men.
Later worked, inadvertently saw a few very beautiful fish, feel very wild very primitive, the metallic color is very beautiful, only to gradually contact the seabream, the color of the seabream is from the depths of the deep charming, the gloss of the scales is very attractive, the body is strong, the most special is the seabream IQ is a bit interesting, this is more similar to the Luohan, very spiritual, the larger the more sensitive to the environment.
Compared with LuoHan, Mei Seabream was prone to enteritis when she was a child, and when she grew up, her body was very good, and it was generally a fight loss.
There are more than 60 genera in North America, Central America and South America, and there are many fish species in each genus, and there are many different regional distinctions in each species, different regions have different colors and body shapes, some also need to check the information, and many species do not have Chinese names.
Cichlids are most characteristic of protecting small fish, until they live on their own, watching cichlids with small fish is interesting, male and female fish take care of small fish, there swim far, suck in with their mouths and then spit out, move around, very interesting! When sleeping, one next to the other darkens, which is funny.
Feeding of seabream
Filtering should be powerful, after all, it is a large cichlid, and there are some small cichlids in South America, but it is not a leather that does not need to be carefully bred, and it also needs to be carefully cared for.
Fish tank starting at least 150 * 60 * 70 cm tank, thickness 60 cm height 70 cm, water volume of more than 500 liters, I am talking about medium and large cichlid, some South American earth seabream small size is not so large tank, there are short seabream tank is even smaller.
Feeding on the American cichlid is also often fed shrimp and red worms, which can make the seabream a good hair color, the most interesting thing about the seabream is also from small to large body size and color change process, hair color is also the embodiment of the yanggong.
Polyculture, but there must be a boss in the fish tank, the boss is best not to owe too much to the mouth or not always dead fish, the seabream with the fish between the more severe to the death, the size of the almost beaten badly, the difference between the difference is not to fight, polyculture is also the charm of the seabream ah!
Hard goods are coming - beautiful seabream set
The scenery tries to restore the original ecological feeling, the clever combination and collocation of stones, bottom sand and sunken wood is very important, the water cycle after the set is the focus, so it is very important to create flow, otherwise there will be a lot of dirty things in the sand, and every once in a while you have to turn over the sand, wash the sand, quite hard!
The choice of fish tank background
1. Glass outer paste background paper. Simple and convenient, the price is right. But the effect is not good, the glass reflection is more severe, it looks more fake. Solid color adhesive background paper paste effect is better than color pattern plastic background paper. Decals are strongly discouraged from being green and varied. American cichlids generally choose black background paper is more beautiful, and the contrast effect with yellow sand is obvious.
2. Background plate inside the fish tank. It needs to be pasted with glass glue, of course, before filling with water and effectively drying.
This background board material is roughly divided into foam and PU material. Foam is not recommended, the sense of realism is poor, easy to damage; the background board of PU material is realistic, durable, and can be seamlessly spliced, and there are many options for thickness, the only drawback is that the price is slightly higher.
American cichlid generally chooses a yellow-brown rock and branch-themed background board, the thickness of course according to the thickness of the fish tank to determine, 10cm thickness is appropriate. With a certain bottom sand and rock crock pots, the effect is quite OK. If the silver is enough, the background board is indeed a good set tool.
3. Glass exterior painting. Simple and convenient, the effect is also OK, but also the inner glass reflection problem is still the same, and it is more troublesome to remove.
Stream-making
Many friends think of laying the bottom sand and find it difficult to clean, in fact, even if the sand tank is not laid, sometimes the feces is difficult to be sucked away in time, so as long as the problem of flow is solved, it is not difficult to clean the sand. The actual design of the flow is based on the size of the fish tank.
Method 1: The cylinder without laying sand can be directly installed at the bottom of the cylinder by using a wave-making pump, and the opposite of the water inlet of the pump is directly blown. When the wave pump has high power and the length of the cylinder is short, the method two arrangement can also be adopted.
Method two: the sand-covered cylinder is generally installed in the upper part of the cylinder by a wave-making pump, and the same side as the water inlet of the pump, and the water flow refraction is used for flow creation. This allows relatively light weight feces and food debris to be carried away by the water stream without too much impact on the bottom sand. The size of the power of the wave pump should be determined according to the size of the cylinder. For longer fish tanks, a reference method can be used to increase the wave pump at the bottom of the opposite tank to enhance the water flow strength at the bottom of the fish tank, and at the same time try not to have too much impact on the bottom sand, and the specific angle needs to be adjusted by yourself.
The cheats of the set
When it comes to setting the fish tank, I think everyone may have fiddled with it, put a little sand, and made a few small stones to add a little beauty to the fish tank.
American cichlids originate from the original Amazon River Basin, so according to their habits and habitat characteristics, we use certain materials to create a comfortable living environment for them, and at the same time make it pleasing to the eyes of fish farmers and fish watchers.
Bottom sand, sunken wood, stones, crock pots make us often use the set materials, choose and match a variety of materials to get better landscaping effects. First, the focus of the overall set style is determined according to the size of the tank and the category of the fish, thus determining our choice of the following materials.
1. Bottom sand
Choose a primer of the right color and particle size.
The american cichlid set generally uses yellow river sand, and the yellow river sand color is closer to the original ecological water bottom sand, and the relative price is relatively cheap, suitable for a large number of uses.
You may think that the bottom sand is easy to hide dirt and dirt, in fact, the bottom sand is a large hotbed of nitrifying bacteria, which is of great help to stabilize water quality. The smaller the particles of sand, the less likely it is to hide the fish's feces, of course, the swimming and playing of larger fish and the flow of water will have a greater impact on the fine sand, and the particle size can be selected according to the size of the fish and the size of the water flow.
2. Sunken wood.
Landscaping can be said to be a unique landscaping material of the American cichlid, and it also plays a role in stabilizing the pH of the water body. Choosing a sunken wood of the right size, beautiful appearance and shape will add a beautiful landscape to the fish tank. Choose the right kind of sunken wood according to the size and style design of your fish tank. Some smaller-sized earth-eating cichlids can choose rhododendron root as a sunken wood landscape, and larger Chinese and American cichlids generally choose a thicker and less branched sunken wood, which can echo the color of the fish body in style.
The shape is as plump as possible, and the height is staggered. There are suitable holes for the cichlid to hide and swim. While adding color to the fish tank, it also gives the fish a haven from the wind.
Attached: Selection and treatment of sunken wood
The choice of sunken wood
1, the basic guarantee of the integrity of the body, no man-made damage, fracture can be, the specific type needs to be selected on demand.
2, good sunken wood due to long-term soaking in wet soil, experience long-term natural erosion, its whole is usually semi-carbonized dark brown, if white gray, indicating that it is not soaked in water for a long time, but in dry soil or semi-exposed sandy soil corruption, not as good as soaked in wet soil corruption, chemical properties are stable. However, if the shape is better, you can also try to use it. However, if the whole body is red or white, and the cross-section is opened with a saw, the glossy and fat is inferior if the decay year is not enough.
3, the species of sunken wood does not need to be exquisite, but most of the people who are soaked in the warm and humid environment for a long time and are difficult to rot are fine and hard and brittle. The fibers of the epidermis and loose parts have been completely rotten, and most of the remnants are limited to extremely dense textures such as knots and roots, while the branches are only a small amount of them, and there are a large number of hole-like structures, if you do not pay attention to the selection, it is easy to be artificially made of lime or acidic pharmaceutical materials. In addition: most of the sunken wood crevices have a little sediment, which is produced in a warm and humid environment with more mud and less sand, and most of the mud in the dry environment is less and more sand.
4, the superior sunken wood because of the long-term soaking in the warm and humid environment, even if it is inside, the loose part will rot out, so knocking on it, should make an "empty" sound. In the dry soil or semi-exposed sandy soil, the weathered rotten wood, although the appearance is difficult to distinguish, but its interior is still solid, tapping up is to make a "sticking" sound, at the time of purchase, regardless of whether the merchant's sunken wood is dry, you can listen to it and distinguish the authenticity
Treatment of sunken wood
1. Roughly wash the sunken wood with a brush;
2, put into a larger pot to cook, add white vinegar, preferably vinegar essence, 200ML below 9 degrees. After boiling, cook for half an hour, one side can be, naturally let cool;
3, put into cold water soak overnight; if you find that the color loss is severe, you can repeat the boiling process. Boil for cold water on the outside. Until there is no severe destaining.
4. Put it into potassium permanganate solution for about 20 minutes;
5. If the volume of the sunken wood is too large, the brushed sunken wood can also be placed on a newspaper thick enough, and disinfected with a potassium permanganate solution brush on it;
6. After disinfection, rinse with clean water. Wrap it in new newspaper, then drizzle it with some water and let it sit for a day;
7: Open the newspaper the next day and remove the sunken wood, rinse it with clean water and use it
3. Pebbles, crock pots.
American cichlid tanks generally use pebbles or some crock pots for underwater supplemental landscaping, relying on pebbles and crock pots of different sizes to re-divide and embellish the bottom space. Enrich the hierarchy of the entire bottom space. At the same time, it also provides more places for fish to play.
After selecting the materials, make a reasonable combination and match according to the design style. According to the material in hand, first draw a few sketches for design, look at a variety of different placement effects, the basic principle is that the set should be extended and layered. The sense of wholeness should be strong, and each local landscape should be coherent, so as to form an overall effect. There should be an echo between the sunken wood and the stone block and the bottom sand, and there is a reflection of the height, left and right and the thickness. To reflect the echo of the whole from one side to the other, from top to bottom. Select a design scheme, the actual placement in the water to observe the effect and can be reasonably adjusted as needed.
The set can be adjusted at any time, so that the fish can also live in a new home from time to time, and at the same time prevent the occurrence of nail households.
American cichlid is mostly medium and large cichlid, due to its plump size and bright color, it set off a wave in the aquarium market in Taiwan in the early days, and many American cichlids at that time belonged to high-priced high-grade fish species.
For example, in the 1950s and 1960s, the value of the flower pig could be compared with that of the later Red Dragon, and the price and status of the pig can be seen from this. At that time, people who did not have a certain economic strength could only look at the fish and sigh from the sidelines. Other American cichlids such as golden pineapple, crown three rooms, black clouds, colorful blue fire mouths, red pearl guan knives, thrushes and other American cichlids have also left brilliant records in the aquarium market.
Although the consumer market is changing rapidly, the scenery of the American cichlid is no longer what it was in the past, and the price and sales volume have also stabilized. But its unique charm still makes fans fascinated, so there is still a group of loyal players, enthusiastic and continue to breed this kind of cichlid.
In fact, no matter how the market changes, it is undeniable that the unique characteristics of the fish itself have never changed, with the strong strength of the American cichlid, I believe that in the future, such medium and large American cichlids will be able to show their glory in the aquarium market.
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