How to raise traffic light fish? why do traffic light fish die easily?

The origin of traffic light fish is in the Amazon River Basin, and it is more and more well-known in China in recent years. The main value of traffic light fish is to watch. Its body has two colors: red and light green. It looks very special. Now many people will keep it at home, but not everyone knows about its breeding skills.

How to raise traffic light fish

1. Culture environment: traffic light fish mainly live in the black and clear waters of the Solimonis River in South America. Its habitat is a typical tropical rain forest climate. It is hot and rainy all the year round, the temperature is between 20: 26 ℃, the pH value is between 5.0 and 7.0 (slightly acidic), and the GH value is between 1: 2. It is best to raise the fish in soft water, but after many generations of breeding, it can also accept the hardness of tap water.

2. Male and female identification: the main methods to identify the male and female of traffic light fish are that the male is slender than the female, the anal fin is sharp and the color is darker. During the reproductive period, the female fish is plump, the anal fin is fan-shaped and the body color is lighter.

3. The method of reproduction: the traffic light fish entered the sexual maturity period at the age of 6 months, and the best breeding period was from 8 to 10 months old. when the abdomen of the female fish was dilated, the female fish was separated from the male fish for a few days, fed enough food, and then paired into the box. The breeding water quality should be pH5.6~6.8,GH1~3.5 °, the water temperature should be 25 ℃, and the artificial fish nest should be put into the breeding tank. The breeding tank should be shaded and kept quiet. A female fish can lay about 150 eggs, and after spawning, the parent fish will be fished out to avoid swallowing eggs and hatch fish fry in 24 hours.

4, feeding management: the traffic light roe is small, the swimming amount is small, and the bait can only be eaten at the mouth. After the opening bait, the egg yolk water was sifted with 200 mesh nets and fed with straws one by one. After a period of time, when the larvae swam normally, they were fed with egg yolk ash water screened by 150 mesh nets. The larvae grow slowly and take longer to eat egg yolk ash water than other small species. In addition, the hatching water quality of larvae is very soft, and the water temperature is completely different from that of daily feeding. When the larvae grow to 5mm, they should be moved into a large tank and raised in a large tank, paying attention to the process of adapting to the water quality.

Why do traffic light fish die easily?

Traffic light is a relatively fragile tropical fish, more timid, like many aquatic plants in the dark, quiet environment, if the light is too strong, the fish tank space is too crowded, will cause their physical decline. Poor farming methods can also lead to the death of traffic light fish.

How long is the life span of traffic light fish?

The normal life span of traffic light fish is 1-2 years, so what to give traffic light fish to eat when raising traffic light fish to make them healthy has become a problem that many fish friends are more concerned about. in fact, raising traffic light fish in addition to the need to pay attention to the choice of traffic light fish feed, breeding environment and other issues also need special attention.

Prevention and control of white spot disease of fish with traffic lights

1. If the water temperature is raised above 28 degrees, the melon insects will stop reproducing and will die on their own if they last for more than three days. This method is very effective and is recommended as the first choice.

2. Soak in 2ppm mercurous acetate and mercurous nitrate solution. The water temperature is below 15 degrees, soak for 3 hours, soak at 15 degrees 20 degrees for 2 hours. After each immersion, the fish should be gently washed with water for 0.5 minutes for 1 hour to wash away the parasites attached to the fish and improve the curative effect. The milder ones should be soaked twice (once a day), and the seriously ill ones should be increased one or two times. This method has a high cure rate, but it is more troublesome.

3. The mixture of 0.05ppm malachite and 25ppm formaldehyde solution twice a day can have a certain curative effect.

4. Soaking diseased fish with 1% salt water for several days also has a certain curative effect.

Traffic light fish in breeding must pay attention to the environment and water quality, when entering the breeding period, it is necessary to strengthen management. In fact, as long as the culture is good, traffic light fish can still be cultured for a year or two, so usually we must strengthen conservation in order to ensure its growth.