Fighting fish mainly refers to small fish belonging to the order Perch, Climbing Perch, Silk-footed Perch, and Fighting Fish subfamily, with a rectangular body and flattened sides. The cleft is small and oblique upwards. Both the dorsal and fins are long and in opposite positions. The first fin on the lateral side of the ventral fin is elongated into a filament. There are blue spots on the posterior edge of the fin cap. Body russet. The male fish are fierce and aggressive. Because of its beautiful body color, good fighting, and mosquito control expert, it has long been raised as an ornamental fish.
Forktail fighting fish
Also known as Chinese fighting fish, heaven fish, bodhisattva fish, flower hand towel. It belongs to the subfamily rubronemidae of the family Osphronemidae and the macropodusinae. Native to southern China. The body of the forktail bucket fish is oblong, slightly flattened, and the tail fin is deeply forked, and the body length can reach 8 cm. The body color is red, blue and green, with 11 blue and red transverse stripes on the side of the body, a black stripe on the head, a green patch on the posterior edge of the gill cap, and a golden yellow eye socket.
The forktail bucket fish is harmonious and colorful, and is loved by tropical fish lovers. This fish is very easy to raise. The suitable water temperature is 20 °C ~ 25 °C. It is also one of the most hardy tropical fish, which can tolerate a low temperature of 4 ° C and can grow well in water bodies above 14 ° C. It is not harsh on water quality, likes to eat widows, and has pleated gills like the Thai fighting fish, which can directly absorb oxygen from the air. Generally, males have brighter body colors and longer elongated fins. Females lay a lot of eggs, up to 1,000 or so. The forktail fighting fish is aggressive, not only fighting each other, but also biting other species of tropical fish, which is suitable for breeding alone.
Among the fighting fish, the fighting fish is the most famous. In order to fight against the enemy, he often disregards his own life and often makes desperate bets. When the fighting fish is in a static state, the color is relatively dull, and when it is angry in order to win the pleasure of its mate or fight, the whole body and fins immediately emit a dizzying metallic glow and tear its enemies with its mouth. When you put two male fighting fish in the same aquarium, or put one male fighting fish in front of the mirror, so that it can see its own shadow. When it spotted the other party, it immediately erected all its fins and emitted a dizzying glow, adjusted its mood, and quickly entered a state of combat. The male fighting fish placed in front of the mirror will repeatedly crash into its own shadow.
Siamese Fighting Fish
The fish is found in freshwater habitats in Asia and Africa. Most species of males construct, protect, and maintain a floating nest of slime foam, often called bubble nesting fish. There are about 70 species of fighting fish, some of which are often fed in domestic aquariums. Wild varieties are small fish that are active in rice paddies and small waterholes, with red or green colors. It lives in Thailand, Southeast Asia, where males and their species are fiercely fighting for land grabs, females, and sometimes death. As a result, gradually, the Thai folk use this small fish to fight to win fun and money activities are becoming more and more popular, and gradually shift from wild catching to simple breeding to purposeful breeding and improvement to improve the combat effectiveness of individual fighting fish. Over time, in the long process of breeding and improvement, different strains of varieties were formed, one branch formed a fighting type fighting fish for fighting, while the other branch developed to improve ornamentality, and finally formed a display level fighting fish. This small fish exudes a unique charm. Today, 150 years later, the fighting fish has long been out of the original posture, become a common ornamental fish, showing a variety of color systems and tail types, favored by players, the competition of display level fighting fish has gradually formed, and the related fighting fish associations have been established in the United States, Japan, Germany and Southeast Asia and other places, and ornamental fighting fish has become the new favorite of international aquarists. [1]
Fighting fish
Here we explore a problem with the mating of this fighting fish. Fighting fish is a very interesting fish species, the requirements for the spouse are very strict, must be happy with each other, cooperate with each other to successfully mate. If one of the partners is displeased, or if there is a difference in body shape, there will be serious consequences, ranging from failure to mating successfully, and severe ones may result in both sides being injured or killed. Therefore, it is necessary to choose some fish species of similar size, and the male should not be too large and should not be too small, the most suitable is to be a little thinner than the mother fish, so that during mating, the mother fish will not be violently attacked by the male to death, and the mother fish is better to mature with the abdominal bloating large cord. In terms of age, it is suitable for four months old to two years old. During breeding, the broodstock are colored by marriage, and there is a color that is not usually there, and the male fish is obvious. The vast majority of eggs are fertilized in vitro, and males have the characteristics of spitting bubble nests and juvenile protection. Fertilized eggs and seedlings are small, and live bait is required for open bait.
Although the male fighting fish is very cruel, but it is very protective of its own children, the male fish can be described as a relative. In addition to building a bubble nest before spawning, it does not rest for a moment when the fish eggs hatch, sometimes picking up sinking particles, sometimes maintaining the bubble nest, often swimming around the bubble nest, vigilantly guarding against possible invasion of the enemy. After the small bucket fish can live independently, the male bucket fish can be fished out of the breeding box and fed. A pair of broodstock spawn 200 fertilized eggs hatch in about 36 hours, and the hatchlings are able to swim freely after three days after hatching. Male fish in Thailand cannot be co-cultured. The males of each fighting fish should be kept separately in a small tank. Females have lax water quality requirements and grow well at a water temperature of 21 °C to 30 °C. In practice, one male and one sex can be polycultured with the same fish.
1. Li Haiyan, Shu Hu et al., Ornamental Fish Farming, Guangdong Tourism Publishing House, October 2000, 1st Edition, p. 70 [Cited on 2020-03-25]
This article was co-edited by headline encyclopedia users Kei Asai and Xiao Fat Haoya.