The fish that many people are familiar with are mainly goldfish, koi, and tropical ornamental fish that have become popular in recent years. In fact, there are many species of native fish (that is, native Chinese fish) in domestic waters, and the following 14 small fish are easy to see in the northern region, and the appearance is also very good, suitable as an ornamental fish.
1. Porcupine
Luoyang is known locally as the small river pomfret, and there are 2 or 3 species common in Luoyang, with slight differences in fin color and body shape.
The body of the trout is flattened on the side and looks nearly round on the side, small freshwater fish, usually swimming in groups, generally no more than 10 cm in size. This fish turns colored during the spring breeding season and is very beautiful. The male has a raised beaded spot on his forehead, and the female sticks out a long spawning tube. When breeding, the mother fish will lay the eggs into the jacket cavity of the river mussel, and the small fish will hatch in the river mussel before swimming out.
This fish is very good to catch, and this spring at the Longmen Rubber Dam, there were hundreds of fish at one time.
2. Chinese fighting fish
Nowadays, there are often Thai fighting fish in the flower and bird market, in fact, there are also fighting fish in China. The Chinese fighting fish is slightly larger than the Thai fighting fish, with a body length of 5-10 cm. It is mainly divided into four kinds: round-tailed bucket fish, fork-tailed bucket fish, Hong Kong black fork-tailed bucket fish, and Vietnamese black fork-tailed bucket fish, of which round-tailed and fork-tailed are the most common.
Round-tailed fighting fish are widely distributed in the north, but now wild fighting fish are not easy to find, and some people say that there may be fighting fish in the Yi River in Longmen.
A few years ago, a friend who raised native fish in JianXi gave some round-tailed and fork-tailed bucket fish fry, and my partner and I each raised one. I raised it in a small fish tank and grew up very fast, but as an adult, the fighting fish fought each other and died, and only one was left. The guys are raised in a large fish tank with aquatic weeds in the tank, the background color is dark, and the fighting fish are alive when they grow up.
Chinese fighting fish is more fierce than Thai fighting fish, if you specialize in raising fighting fish for ornamentation, you need to divide the fish tank into multiple grids, and each grid only raises one fighting fish.
3. Stick flower fish
Luoyang is commonly known as the ground tiger fish, which is prominently characterized by its crooked mouth downwards, usually swimming and foraging against the bottom of the water. This fish is only a few centimeters long, and its diet is very mixed, and it eats everything.
Due to the slow swimming speed, when other small fish grab the hook to eat, the tiger fish generally cannot grab it. Only if there are fewer other small fish, it will have a chance to bite the hook.
4. Goby
It is not large, generally 5 cm long, looks like a tiger, and looks very cute. Goby fish are also benthic fish, with a pair of pectoral fins in the form of a semicircle shape that together form a circle that can be adsorbed to stones like suction cups.
Don't look cute, goby fish like to eat meat, with earthworms is the best fishing, bite the bait after not relaxing.
Goby are beautifully kept in fish tanks and can be adsorbed on the walls of the tanks.
5. Wheat ear fish
The fish is slender, the size of an ear of wheat, hence the name.
Wheat ear fish have from the upper layer to the bottom layer, small in size, and frantically bite the hook when they see the bait. Grabbing fish food, and it is difficult to catch, so that anglers are very headaches.
If you want to catch wheat ear fish, you can only use the smallest cuff hook without barbs.
6. Silver bass
It is also a small fish, and its body length generally does not exceed 10 cm.
However, compared with wheat ear fish, silver bass has a larger head, a larger mouth, and a fatter body. A larger mouth is relatively easy to fish.
7. Blackfin mackerel
There are black lines of spaced vertical channels on the back of the body, which will be colored by the breeding season. The male has black stripes and yellow intervals on the body, and the pectoral and caudal fins are yellow, which is very beautiful. Females are not as colorful as males.
This small fish is rare and has only been seen a few times in the landscape water system of the new district.
8. White striped fish
It is very common in the Luoyang River and can be seen in the landscape water system of the new district. The body is slender and streamlined, swimming very fast, often swimming back and forth against the surface of the water in groups.
White strips are also small fish, generally under 20 cm in length, and smaller white strips grab food, making anglers overwhelmed. However, there are many large white strips, and it is also good to fish for white strips, and this fish tastes very delicious.
As ornamental fish, white striped fish swim back and forth in groups, and it is also good to watch in the fish tank.
9. Horsemouth fish
It is also a small fish that swims very quickly, with a large mouth, a fierce temperament, and a mouth shaped like a horse wearing a chew, hence the name. During the breeding season, the mouthfish will be colored on the body, and the fish star will also appear on the forehead, which is very beautiful.
Salmon are usually under one or two, and grow to three or four pairs are rare. This fish is the most common species of fish in Northern Lua, where the mouth fish is usually larger. In some shallow rapids of the Yi River, suitable for Lua Makou fish. Last year, in the falling pool under the rubber dam of the Yi River, there were many horse mouths with hand rods.
The mouth fish is also good to watch in the fish tank.
10. Broad-finned carp
It has similar habits to the horsefish, but the mouth is small, and it does not have the mouth shape of the horsefish. Broadfin carp are smaller than horses' beaks, and 1 to 2 doubles are rare.
Broadfin bream has high water quality requirements, and is more common in the Yi River and rarely seen in the Luo River.
Widefin carp are often used as ornamental fish, and a group is kept in the fish tank, with plants in the water. If it is well raised, the colors are very beautiful by the breeding season.
11. Willow root fish
This fish cannot be seen in the urban section of the Luohe and Yihe rivers, and there are many streams in the mountains south of Luoyang. Willow root fish is a kind of cold-water fish, suitable temperature of 10 ~ 25 ° C, suitable for living in small rivers in the mountains. This fish is usually not large, and the fish of 1 or 2 pairs is already very large.
In the summer, there are many such fish in the water of Luoyang Mountain Scenic Area, the colors are bright, and there seems to be a golden thread on the spine, which looms.
12. Loach
Living in the mud under the water, more than 10 cm tall, soft body, can be twisted around. The mouth is not big, there is a beard on the mouth, and it likes to lie down day and night.
Loach is small and difficult to fish, and sometimes it can be netted with shrimp baskets. It's also fun to keep one in a fish tank.
When there is a lack of oxygen in the water before rain, loach likes to jump out of the water. The one I raised jumped out of the water like this, was not found at the time, fell on the floor and dried up.
13. Chinese loach
Its body shape is as slender as a yellow eel, cylindrical in shape, and its head is small and small in mouth. This strange-looking fish is fierce, carnivorous, preying on small shrimp and small invertebrates. The mouth is poisonous, and the wound heals slowly after biting. The fins on the back are sharp and it is easy to scratch the skin.
In the past, I used to live in two shrimp baskets in longmen waters, and I didn't dare to put them in the fish tank when I took them home, for fear that it would bite other fish.
14. Yellow jaw fish
Luoyang is called Yellow Geya fish, which is very common. The fish is slippery, slow-moving, and usually inhabits the water floor, with a habit of lying diurnal and nocturnal. Huang Geya fish has a large mouth, is very greedy, and swallows food into its mouth when it sees it.
If yellow lattice fish is caught, the hook is usually swallowed into the stomach. Be careful when picking the hook, its dorsal fin and two pectoral fins have poisonous liquid, and it will be painful to be pricked.
I once put the yellow gea fish I caught in the fish tank and ate a few of my small fish and grass shrimp. In the future, in the fish tank, I dare not put yellow lattice fish and mix it with other fish.
Finally, let's talk about how small fish are caught.
One method is to fish, the smallest fish hook with a thin line, with pasta or earthworms to catch.
Another method is shrimp baskets, with bones or instant noodles, sometimes catching dozens of them at a time.