First, Pauline lamp fish introduction
Pauline lamp fish is the most beautiful tropical fish, the scientific name of Ashi neon fat carp, also called red lotus lamp, new fluorescent lamp fish, new red lotus light fish. It is an important ornamental fish of the genus Cyprinidae, suborder Lipidoptera, family Lipoaceae, and neon lipocarpus, native to the Amazon Basin of South America. The Pauline Lampfish is petite and slender, with a body length of about 4 to 5 centimeters, and is a treasure among tropical fish. Its body is flattened, spindle-shaped, the head and tail stalk are wide, and the snout is rounded and blunt. The back is yellowish green and the abdomen is milky white. The most obvious feature is that there is a bright blue-green band on the upper part of the body, a red ribbon on the lower half, with a metallic luster all over the body, which is blue and green when viewed from different angles under the illumination of light, constantly changing and sparkling, and the ventral surface from the pectoral fin to the base of the tail stalk is completely bright red. It is especially beautiful when swimming.
The Pauline lampfish is a prominent species of lightfish, the Pauline lampfish has two origin regions, the blue fluorescent band is long from Brazil, and the short one is from the Colombian type. The main production areas are brazil, Colombia, Venezuela in the upper reaches of the Orinoco River and the Rio Negro River.
Pauline lamp fish
How long does the Pauline lamp fish live?
Pauline lamp fish can generally live for 3 to 4 years, and some can live to five years.
Pauline lamp fish breeding
When the female has a swollen abdomen, a vigorous male Pauline lampfish is chosen to mate. Put it in the aquarium at dusk and keep it dark, and block out the light when the light is too strong. Spawning is usually given in the morning, with about 1.2 million eggs laid by the female at a time, which hatch within 24 hours.
Second, the difference between Pauline lamp fish and traffic lights
1. Pauline lamp fish
Pauline lamp fish is easy to confuse with traffic light fish, because the price difference between the two is still quite large, so some merchants will take cheap traffic light fish to impersonate Pauline lamp fish, fooling new friends, before we aquarists have encountered. In fact, the best way to distinguish everyone to see the abdomen red mostly, the red of the Pauline lamp extends from the mouth to the tail, while the traffic light only extends from the abdomen to the tail.
2. Traffic light fish
The traffic lightfish, scientifically known as the neon carp, is native to Peru, tributaries of the Amazon River, Colombia, and Brazil. The whole body is shrouded in turquoise brilliance, from the head to the tail there is a bright blue-green band, the back half of the body is also a red band below the blue-green band, the abdomen is blue-white, and the red band and the blue band run through the whole body, dazzling. In different light or in different environments, the color of its color ramp is dark and light. Because of its extremely bright body color, the traffic light fish is known as the "queen" of tropical fish, and it is the most popular tropical fish species. The green line in the upper part of the body, which sometimes appears blue due to the angle of light, is very harmonious with the red line in the lower part of the body. Timid, often moving downstream in a quiet environment on the water. It prefers live water fleas and is very easy to raise.
Traffic lights fish
3. Green Lotus Lantern Fish
It is produced in the upper reaches of the Nigro River basin and the Orinoco River basin in Brazil, Latin America. The shape of the green lotus lightfish is basically similar to that of the traffic light fish, but the difference is that the traffic light fish runs through a blue-green band from beginning to end, while the green lotus light fish basically runs through a blue band. Below the ribbon, the traffic light fish has a very striking bright red color, but the green lotus light fish does not. This makes its green color more conspicuous, which is where the green lotus lamp fish got its name. There is also a species of green lotus lamp fish called platinum green lotus lightfish.
Green Lotus Lamp Fish
Platinum green lotus lamp fish
4. White cloud gold wire fish
And Baolian lantern fish similar to the domestic native ornamental fish called Baiyun goldfish, is a kind of native fish named after Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, although the Baiyun Goldfish is named after Baiyun Mountain, but in addition to the first discovery in Baiyun Mountain, follow-up other parts of southern China have also been found. If you don't say that it is a native fish, everyone should think that they are foreign, because the body color is too good-looking, and our previous understanding of native fish is different. Another feature of baiyun goldfish is that it is very good to raise, basically no difficulty can be used, so it is also the first choice for novice fish farming.
Third, how to raise Pauline lamp fish
Pauline lamp fish is a representative fish species in the light fish, like to swim in groups, more skinny, more skinny than traffic light fish, life is longer than traffic light fish, as a middle and lower fish, Pauline lamp fish swimming is also incomparable to traffic light fish.
Pauline lantern fish has a gentle temperament, is suitable for group breeding, and has a cheerful swimming posture, which is very likable. It is difficult to raise Pauline lamp fish, because the fish has stricter requirements for water temperature, the suitable temperature is 24 ~ 26 ° C, and the light is dark. And Pauline lamp likes to move in the lower layer of the water, feeding water can be changed once in three to five days, the water temperature should not fluctuate too much, and some aquatic grass can be planted in the feeding tank to play a shading role.
The use of general lamp fish special feed, blood worms and the like can meet the food requirements for feeding Pauline lamp fish, and the selection of small live bait feeding will make the body color of the fish more colorful. Usually, the better food for feeding Pauline lamp fish is bread worms, barley worms, water earthworms and other foods, and artificial feed is also OK. However, more deployment is needed to achieve the greatest reasonable balance. Generally speaking, the size of pauline lamp fish is between 3 and 6 centimeters, and the feeding can reach about 8 centimeters. But it is difficult to exceed 10 centimeters, and only a very few people can do it.
Fourth, Pauline lamp fish picture