Breeding methods of kissing fish

Kissing fish, also known as kissing fish, kissing fish, peach blossom fish, etc., originated in Thailand, Indonesia, Sumatra, is a common ornamental fish, in the ornamental fish species is a kind of small ornamental fish, because the two fish kiss each other and get the name kissing fish and loved by many fish friends, meaning that their love is long, let's take a look at the breeding methods of kissing fish!

Breeding time of kissing fish

Kissing fish enter the stage of sexual maturity when they are 15 months old. Kissing fish have no fixed breeding season under captive conditions and can reproduce many times a year. When you plan to breed small fish, you can put the parent fish into the breeding tank according to the ratio of 1:1 between male and female, and mix in some distilled water at the same time to stimulate the estrus of the parent fish and feed in large quantities in order to facilitate reproduction.

Male and female identification of kissing fish

It is not easy to distinguish between male and female kissing fish, the larvae can hardly distinguish between male and female, the adult male fin is wide and long, the body appears slender, the female is narrow, the body is broad and thick, and the abdomen is slightly bulged. when the female is sexually mature, the abdomen is dilated because it is full of eggs, which is very obvious when looking down from the top of the tank. Kissing fish are oviparous and fertilized in vitro, usually with a body length of more than 20 centimeters as parent fish.

Breeding environment of kissing fish

The kissing fish were bred in a large aquarium over 80 × 40 × 40 cm. The fish were fed with 5-7-day old water, the water temperature was between 25-27 ℃, the pH was 6.8-7.4, and the hardness was 911. A layer of floating aquatic plants was placed on the surface of the box. The male fish keeps turning around the female fish, and when it reaches the appropriate position, it is wrapped in a "U" shape and squeezed around the female fish. The male fish ejaculates immediately after the female fish lays eggs. The female can lay 500 ~ 10 000 eggs at a time, with an average of 3000 eggs. The eggs of kissing fish are floating eggs, floating in the upper layer of the water like oil, floating aquatic plants can prevent them from being swallowed by their parents.

Hatching methods of kissing fish

The kissing fish can fish out the parent fish after laying eggs and hatch the eggs artificially. The larvae can be hatched in 20-24 hours. After 2-3 days, the larvae should be fed with a large amount of gray water, otherwise they will starve to death. After 2-3 days, they can be fed to the little red worms for 3-4 days. At 15-20 days, the fast-growing larvae should be divided into two or three boxes to ensure a higher survival rate. Sometimes a litter of fish can survive more than 9000 fish, reach sexual maturity in about a year, and live for up to 6-7 years.