Living Habits of Loach

Loach is a warm-water fish. When the water temperature rises to 30 ℃, Loach will dive into the mud to spend the summer. When the water temperature drops below 5 ℃ in winter, it will drill into the mud at the depth of 20-30cm to survive the winter.

Loach often come out at night to prey on plankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, aquatic higher plant debris and algae, and sometimes take water bottom humus or mud residue. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus matured at the age of 2 winter and began to reproduce in April (water temperature 18 ℃). The eggs were laid in shallow grass with a water depth of less than 30 cm, and the eggs adhered to the water grass or submerged dry grass. Hatched larvae are often scattered and do not form groups.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus likes to inhabit the bottom of still water and is often found in lakes, ponds, ditches and silt surfaces rich in plant debris at the bottom of paddy fields.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus can not only breathe with Gill and skin, but also has special intestinal respiratory function; when the gas is muggy or the pond bottom silt, humus and other substances rot, causing serious hypoxia, Loach can also jump out of the water surface, or rise vertically to the water surface, directly swallow the air with the mouth, and breathe with the assistance of the intestinal wall, when it turns its head and slowly dives, the waste gas is discharged from the anus.