Are peacock fish the same as anchovies? How do you raise it? How many small fish are born at a time? How often do you breed?

As one of the most common tropical fish, peacock fish not only have outstanding size and super gorgeous body color, but also the price is very cheap, so it is favored and liked by the majority of fish farmers. It is said that many experts start from raising peacock fish. So, are peacock fish the same as anchovies? How do you raise it? How many small fish are born at a time? How often do you breed?

If both peacock fish and anchovies refer to ornamental fish, anchovies are also commonly known as peacock fish native to South America, so they are the same, referring to the same kind of fish. It's just that peacock fish is its scientific name.

If it refers to another, then the anchovy is commonly known as "Coilia ectenes", the scientific name "Coilia ectenes", is a valuable economic fish, it is a famous specialty of Wenzhou, it is a good taste for rice and wine, because its tail is bifurcated like the tail of a Phoenix, short and red, thin and long, like a Phoenix tail. Anchovies are a kind of migratory small fish, which usually inhabit the open sea. Every year, groups enter the river from the sea in late spring and early summer, spawning and swimming at the entrance of fresh water in the middle and lower reaches.

Feeding methods of peacock fish

1. Water temperature

As we all know, fish culture water first, water culture is the key and fundamental of fish culture, so what are the water temperature requirements for peacock fish? The adaptability of peacock fish is relatively strong, so the requirements for water are not very high. It is OK to live in the water temperature of 18 ℃. In general, indoor room temperature can meet its requirements for water temperature, but it is best to use the heater in winter. It is best to control the water temperature at about 22 degrees Celsius. It does not matter if it is a little higher. This will promote the activity of peacock fish. But also can strengthen its body function resistance!

2. Bait

Speaking of peacock fish bait, it is roughly divided into two kinds, one is artificial feed sold on the market, the other is live bait. There are many kinds of artificial feed on the market, which are divided into three kinds, namely, flake feed, pellet feed and frozen feed, but this kind of feed is related to safety, so it is best to give priority to live bait. So what are the best and safest live baits?

Silk earthworms are the best live bait. On the one hand, silk earthworms have very high nutritional value and can survive for a long time, which will promote peacocks not to eat, thus strengthening the growth rate of peacock fish; on the other hand, silk earthworms can also be used as bait to feed the medicine to silk earthworms and then feed them to peacock fish. So silk earthworms should be the most perfect feed, but fish friends should pay special attention to one thing, because silk earthworms live in the wild, and although aquariums will sterilize them, they will inevitably leave some parasites in their bodies, so fish friends had better deal with them when they feed them.

The second is the harvest shrimp (nauplius)! Here, I would like to make it clear that it does not take too long to prepare for hatching shrimp eggs, nor does it require too many procedures, but after hatching, they should be fed as soon as possible, otherwise their nutritional value will be slightly reduced. But if there is a spare hatched harvest shrimp, you can freeze it and use it next time when you feed it as long as it is thawed.

3. Feeding

For the feeding of newborn peacock juvenile fish, it is not recommended to take too much bait to avoid polluting the water quality due to the inexhaustible consumption of small fish. Usually try to feed high-protein food before distinguishing the sex of peacocks, but after male and female fish can be raised separately, remember not to let male fish eat too much high-protein food, while female fish can be fed as much as possible. make the female fish more rounded. However, fish friends should be reminded that if the amount of feeding increases, the frequency of changing water should be increased to avoid the rapid deterioration of water quality, causing disease breeding and endangering peacock fish.

For adult peacock fish, they will like every kind of feed, but do not feed the same feed regularly for a long time, so as to avoid causing a single imbalance in nutrition and affecting the growth rate of peacock fish. In addition, we should often feed some live bait to strengthen the nutrition of peacock fish.

How many small fish do peacock fish give birth to at a time?

The first child ranges from several to dozens, usually born in one day. The mother fish should be fished out after giving birth. Peacock fish have the habit of eating small fish. There can be more than a hundred after the second child.

How often do peacock fish breed?

Generally speaking, peacock fish that reach sexual maturity breed once a month or three times every two months.

The peacock fish can enter the stage of sexual maturity 5 months after birth, when the peacock fish has the ability to reproduce the next generation. Under normal circumstances, the life of peacock fish is only about one year, of course, there is also an ideal survival state of 2-3 years, but such a "longevity" peacock fish is very rare. Therefore, as far as ordinary peacock fish are concerned, the peacock fish that have been more than 6 months old are no longer suitable for reproduction from a physiological point of view.