How to raise mini parrot fish and how to reproduce

Mini parrot fish is more and more popular with consumers in the market in recent years, and it has a very high ornamental value, so there are many people who choose to breed it. However, when raising mini parrot fish, you also need to master a lot of breeding skills and breeding skills, otherwise there may be some problems, or even cause the death of the fish.

How to raise mini parrot fish

1. Water quality requirements. Blood parrots like soft water with weak acidity and low hardness. Because the blood parrot's congenital lips can not be closed, the control ability of huff and puff flow is poor, the flow through the Gill is smaller, and the ability to exchange oxygen with the Gill is much worse than that of its male parent, female parent and other fish. Therefore, the water body where blood parrots are raised must have sufficient oxygen. The aquarium tank had better be equipped with biochemical filter cotton, water pump and aeration equipment. The specific indexes are PH value about 6.5 and dissolved oxygen 8 mg / L.

2. Temperature control. The blood parrot has strong adaptability to temperature and can live freely in the water temperature of 20-30 ℃. But the blood parrot is also very sensitive to temperature. In the case of low water temperature and drastic changes in water temperature, it is easy to produce stress reaction, resulting in dull body color, loss of bright luster, and even black stripes or markings. In the process of feeding, it is best to keep the water temperature within the range of 25 ℃ and 28 ℃, and the water temperature difference before and after each change of water should not exceed 0.5 ℃.

How do mini parrot fish reproduce

1. Mini parrot fish are generally paired on their own. At about 4 cm, the male fish is obviously larger than the female fish, the male fish's upper and lower fins will be drawn, which is generally longer than the caudal fin, and the female fish's belly will be more round and the belly caudal fin will turn red.

2. The male will occupy the breeding tank and allow the female to enter, and the female will lay eggs within a few days after the female gets out of the tube. The greatest charm of this kind of fish is that the parent fish will bring small fish, and the eggs will provide a quiet environment for the parent fish when they hatch. When frightened, they may eat the eggs and small fish. Generally, unfertilized white eggs will appear during the blackening of the eggs in 30 hours, and the parent fish will eat the white eggs. 72 hours later, the eggs will reveal their tails. The small fish usually take off in about seven days.

3. Parent fish will do their duty to protect small fish before takeoff, and some small fish will be brought back by their parents when they roll out of the breeding tank until the small fish take off, they can be raised with their parent fish, or they can hatch alone after throwing eggs.

Breeding and management of mini parrot fish

Blood parrots have miscellaneous feeding habits, and eat almost everything, such as artificial bait, flakes, granules, red worms, harvest shrimp, water lice, and so on, so it is easy to feed blood parrots, but it is not easy to raise blood parrots with strong and colorful bodies. It is necessary to feed the food at a fixed time every day, rationally match the nutrition of the feed, and regularly feed fresh shrimp and small fish. it is best to choose the artificial bait specially prepared for the blood parrot, which is supplemented with astaxanthin and class D carotene. Direct feeding is not only convenient, but also can make the body color of the blood parrot more bright and beautiful.

What if the mini parrot fish turns white?

1, injection pigment: when the fishmonger was injected with pigment, the pigment gradually disappeared after coming back, so the parrot fish gradually became white. If it is for this reason, there is no other way but to buy parrot fish again.

2. Feed problem: parrot fish turn red only by eating feed with Zeng erythrin from an early age. It may be your feed problem. Buy the feed with Zeng red effect to feed them, otherwise its color will slowly turn white.

3, environmental problems: parrot fish have just arrived in a new environment, there will be a period of time the color will turn white, and so they will gradually change back.

Mini parrot fish in breeding must pay attention to the cleanliness of the water, but also need to control the temperature, the temperature is too high or too low may cause fish maladaptation, causing death. The feeding of mini parrot fish is also very important, generally fish and shrimp or artificial bait is the most common.