<h1>If you see someone keeping a few dead leaves in a fish tank, do you think how can anyone be so strange? In fact, this is a kind of fish, today let us know this master of disguise - dead leaf fish. </h1>
Dead leaf fish is also called leaf fish, leaf-shaped fish, the scientific name of the spiny leaf perch, the distribution of dry leaf fish is more extensive, in South America, Africa and Asia have found its traces, today's main share is distributed in the South American Amazon River, Guyana and other areas of south American dry leaf fish.
South American dead leaf fish body flattened, resembling a leaf, the largest adult body length of up to 15cm, wild South American dead leaf fish mainly inhabit near the body color and weak light of the still water or water flow slow shallow water stream, like weak acid soft water, suitable temperature between 25-28 ° C, food habits belong to small carnivorous fish, do not eat artificial feed, like live bait, such as red worms, small shrimp, small fish, etc., so it is not suitable for polyculture with small tropical fish.
And South American dead leaf fish are timid, not easy to adapt to the environment, in the feeding, you can place some sunken wood and olive kernel leaves in the fish tank, plant some aquatic grass, the filter water flow should not be too urgent, to simulate the environment in the wild state, so the South American dead leaf fish in the feeding is still more difficult.
The body color of the South American leafless fish varies widely, even if the same fish, in different environments and lights, there will be different body color changes, which is a bit like a chameleon, its body color can also change with the environment and light changes, can show green, there are also dry yellow, dark brown, which is also the fun of raising South American dead leaf fish.
South American dead leaf fish tail stalk is short, the tail fin is not developed, so it will be disguised as a fallen leaf falling into the water, drifting aimlessly in the water, and its mouth also has a small tentacle, similar to the petiole of the leaf, it looks more like a leaf drifting with the waves, such camouflage can both hide from the wall and strong enemies, but also can easily catch prey, so it will often be disguised as a leaf slowly approaching the target, and suddenly attacking it, so the South American dead leaf fish should not be mixed with small fish and shrimp.
South American leafless fish belong to the spiny leaf perch fish, widely distributed in South America, Africa and Asia, so the reproduction methods of leaf-shaped fish in different regions are also diverse, such as leaf-shaped fish in Africa that use bubble floating nests to spawn, leaf-shaped fish in Asia that lay eggs in burrows, and South American dry leaffish that lay eggs on their leaves.