How to raise pineapple?

Pineapple fish is one of the fish with the best ornamental performance, also known as golden turnip fish, Xifu Luo fish and so on. It is a freshwater fish of the family Caridae, which is mainly distributed in the Amazon River Basin. Now it is mostly farmed artificially, with high ornamental value and mild temperament. At the same time, there are no diverse requirements for the living environment. Let's take a look at how to raise pineapple fish.

The market price of pineapple fish

Pineapple fish is an ornamental plant, and its price is based on the color, species and ornamental value of pineapple fish. At present, the pineapple fish sold on the market are basically fry, and their price is about 10-15 yuan per piece. Adult pineapple fish can be priced according to their size, species and color, but the price of pineapple fish is more affordable compared with other species of ornamental fish.

Growth habits of pineapple fish

The pineapple fish is broad and flat in size, with a light yellow body and a dark head, with stripes of red dots on the side, similar to pineapple stripes, medium in size, up to 200 mm. Personality is relatively mild, prefer to survive in the broad environment of water plants, sand and gravel, and like to swim in the underwater layer. Suitable for group culture, it will be automatically paired for reproduction, in the breeding period of the male fish is more ferocious, so it is necessary to take good protective measures.

Selection of juvenile pineapple fish

1. The more yellow the young pineapple fish, the better. Do not choose those young fish whose body color is white. It is best to turn off the lights and select them in natural light.

2. Young pineapple fish should choose pineapples with short body, not long ones. Round ones look good when they grow up, but they don't look good.

3. Young pineapple fish should choose the big ones in the litter, not the small ones, the big ones are often male fish, and they are brightly colored when they grow up. And the big ones tend to grow big, while the small ones don't grow that big.

Juvenile feeding of pineapple fish

1. Water quality: the disease resistance of young pineapple fish is poor, and in order to ensure a high survival rate, the water for raising pineapple had better use "yellow powder water". The so-called "yellow powder water" refers to adding yellow powder (that is, furacilin medicine) to the feeding water according to the use dose. keep the water color yellowish and add salt appropriately. Practice has proved that small pineapples have little chance of getting sick in yellow powder water, while they are easy to get sick when raised in ordinary water, especially blood fin disease (fin redness and congestion, inverted fin merging).

2. Water temperature: young pineapple fish like higher water temperature, and it is best to keep it at 27-30 ℃. In this water temperature, pineapple not only grows fast, but also is not easy to suffer from white spot disease. The best time to buy small pineapples is in May or June.

3. Feed: young pineapple fish do not like to eat artificial feed, even if they eat it, they grow slowly. Some fish friends like to feed small pineapples with red nematodes, although they grow fast, but they are very unsanitary, and they are easy to suffer from blood fin disease and white spot disease. Frozen blood worms can be used to feed small pineapples, or fish eggs can be used to feed small pineapples. Small pineapples love to eat fish eggs and grow fast, which is also conducive to hair color.

Adult rearing of pineapple

1. Water quality: pineapple fish has a strong adaptability to water quality, which is not as high as parrots' requirements, but we should also pay attention to keeping its favorite water quality in order to produce yellow-coloured fish. Like weak acid soft water, do not use alkaline or hard water to raise pineapple, otherwise the color of pineapple will be white, not yellow.

2. Water temperature: the water temperature required by pineapple fish is not as high as that of juvenile fish, and can grow well from 22 to 30 ℃. But if you want the pineapple to grow faster, it's better to keep it above 26 ℃.

3, feed: the feed requirements of pineapple fish are not as picky as small pineapple, artificial pellet feed, blood worms, fish eggs, shrimp, bread worms, chicken and duck liver are willing to eat, and often eat very full, can eat a lot. But big pineapple fish love bread worms best, and bread worms grow the fastest.

4. Hair color: when the pineapple is raised to 6 centimeters, you should begin to pay attention to the hair color. Don't wait for the pineapple to grow to more than ten centimeters before it is too late. Pineapple hair color is not only red, but also yellow, hair color feed can mainly use fish eggs (yellow), river shrimp (red and gorgeous), artificial color feed (such as Baozenghong). The pineapple that has been fed fish eggs for a long time is more yellow than the general pineapple, while the river shrimp has a strong brightening effect on the red circles under the pineapple's eyes and the red markings on the body.

5, mixed culture: pineapple is a docile large fish, be careful not to mix with some too fierce large fish (such as Luohan, red devil), otherwise the fins of the pineapple will be torn repeatedly and can not be restored, greatly reducing the ornamental value.