How long is the life span of ornamental fish kissing fish (kissing perch)? How old can you grow up? How much is the market price for a pair? What kind of fish do you mix with? How do you raise it?

Kissing fish, also known as kissing perch, kissing fish, peach blossom fish, kissing Douyu, and snail fish, are small ornamental fish. They are famous for "kissing" each other. At present, many people like to keep them indoors. How long does the kissing fish live? How old can you grow up? How much is the market price for a pair? What kind of fish do you mix with? How do you raise it?

How long is the life span?

Kissing fish can live for 6 to 7 years, usually reach sexual maturity in about a year, mild temperament, live in groups in various water layers, and can be mixed with other fish, eating miscellaneous food, not picky at all, bread worms, broken earthworms, artificial feed, not only fast growth, resistance is also good, rarely sick, open branches and loose leaves of children and grandchildren, there is no fixed breeding season under artificial breeding conditions, and reproduction is relatively simple. It is better to feed in pairs and feed in large quantities in order to facilitate reproduction.

How old can you grow up?

Kissing fish can grow to 20cm in wild conditions and 3cm in aquaculture. They like to inhabit tropical rivers. They are often used as edible fish in the country of origin. The requirements for water quality are not strict, the gregarious nature is not obvious, and they swim very slowly. It is elegant and elegant, with charming charm and ornamental value.

The latest market price:

The price of kissing fish is generally between 5 and 10 yuan, whether it is sold alone or in pairs, depending on the specific situation. There is a special shape of kissing fish, similar to peach-shaped or heart-shaped, this kind of kissing fish will be more expensive than ordinary fish, may be about ten yuan. If you buy online, the price will be relatively cheaper, the price is generally around 2-3 yuan. The price of kissing fish varies from region to region, so don't generalize.

What kind of fish do you mix with?

Red swordfish

Red swordfish is a beautiful ornamental fish, its origin is in South America, and it generally grows to 7cm to 8cm in origin. Under the condition of artificial breeding, it is larger, generally about 12cm, mild-tempered, and can be mixed with other tropical fish of similar size. Individual fish are aggressive to small tropical fish, like to peck at their tails, and are usually lively and active, while males are in shock, when they are in high currents, and when they fight. Love to jump.

Fairy fish

Although the fairy fish has elegant posture and beautiful posture, although it does not have bright colors, it is unparalleled by any kind of tropical fish. It seems that there is no case that a lover who has raised tropical fish for many years has not raised fairy fish, which is almost synonymous with tropical fish. When it comes to tropical fish, people often associate it with this kind of leisurely shuttling in the bushes. A fish of exuberant beauty.

Black Mary

Black Mary has miscellaneous food habits and can scrape the algae and aquatic plants on the wall of the box, so it has the laudatory name of "cleaner" of the aquarium. It is mild-tempered and easy to mixed culture. Because the black Mary fish likes weakly alkaline hard water, it is not suitable to be mixed with tropical fish of the fat family. Young fish can be fed with live bait such as small fleas, which are sexually mature in 5 months and the breeding cycle is about 35 days.

Peacock fish

Peacock fish is a small omnivorous fish species with strong adaptability to the environment. It propagates and distributes in the lower reaches of rivers, lakes and ditches in some tropical areas. Its wild habitat is diversified, mainly inhabiting freshwater basins and lakes and marshes. It is able to tolerate pollution in waters. It is introduced into Singapore, Japan and China as ornamental fish. It is mild-tempered and can be mixed with mild and medium-sized tropical fish. Short life, artificial cultivation is divided into several strains, such as tuxedo, mosaic, grass tail, sword tail, metal, snake king and so on.

Lantern fish

Lantern fish was originally a kind of small lantern fish native to the Amazon River Basin in South America. It was hot from the Netherlands of Western Europe to the mainland due to the simulation of the water plant landscape tank of "tropical rain forest". As an important protagonist of the water plant tank, the lantern fish swims among the water plants and has a colorful body color, especially the red light, blue light or green light, which can reflect the flickering light and is known as the "jewel of swimming".

Mandarin fish

Mandarin is a small tropical ornamental fish belonging to the family Siluridae, which is omnivorous fish. it can accept many kinds of live bait, such as wigglers, nematodes, water earthworms, water fleas, and so on, as well as artificial bait, and even eat live fry, even shrimp and crab seeds, but will not chase small fish that cannot be swallowed, but it is still the most popular feed for floating on the surface, and can be mixed with other temperament and similar tropical fish.

Culture techniques:

1. Fish tank: we all know that adult kissing fish can reach 20 to 30 centimeters long, and smaller kissing fish can reach more than 10 centimeters. According to the ratio of fish tank to fish body length at 3:1, the fish tank should be at least 90 centimeters. However, most people buy kissing fish at about 10 centimeters, so the fish tank can be 40 to 60 centimeters long.

2. Water temperature: kissing fish can live in a water temperature of 1830 degrees Celsius, usually above 22 degrees Celsius. If raised in winter, you do not have to install a heater if you have heating in your home. Install a thermometer to observe the water temperature at any time. If the water temperature is about 25 degrees Celsius, you need to buy a thermostat. In addition, raising kissing fish has no strict requirements on water quality, and likes weak acid soft water.

3, feed: kissing fish is easy to raise because it does not choose food, animal feed and plant feed, like to eat red fish and insects, like to eat aquatic plants and moss.

4. Collocation: kissing fish swim slowly and are not suitable for raising with strong fish species, such as cannibal Pomfret, Luohan fish, Sanjie and so on. It is best to raise some species that are smaller and milder than kissing fish.

5. Male and female: it is difficult to distinguish between male and female of kissing fish, and the larvae can hardly distinguish between male and female. Adult males generally have wide and long buttocks and slender bodies, while females have narrow anal fins, broad and thick bodies and slightly bulging abdomen.

6, reproduction: kissing fish directly lay floating eggs, floating on the surface, the eggs are amber, such as white, it means that the eggs are not fertilized. After laying eggs, the parent fish can be fished out and the eggs can be hatched artificially. The larvae can be hatched in 20 to 24 hours. After 2 to 3 days, the larvae should be fed with a large amount of gray water, otherwise they will starve to death. After 2 to 3 days, the larvae can be fed to the big worms. At 15 to 20 days, the fast-growing larvae should be divided into two or three boxes to ensure a higher survival rate. Sometimes more than 9000 larvae can survive in a litter.