The living habits of kissing fish

Kissing fish is famous for "kissing" each other. Not only heterosexual fish, even homosexual fish also have "kissing" movements. Kissing fish "kissing" is not an expression of friendship, but a struggle. Wild body length is 20cm to 33cm and farmed to 3cm. It is native to Thailand, Indonesia and Sumatra. It is a common ornamental fish. Let's take a look at the living habits of kissing fish.

Growing environment

Kissing fish like to live in tropical rivers, in the place of origin is often used as a kind of edible fish, the requirements for water quality is not strict, gregarious is not very obvious, swimming very slowly, appears elegant and generous, with charming charm and ornamental value, usually extremely docile, lively, so it is not suitable to mix with quiet tropical fish, like swimming in all layers of the water, but often stop at the bottom of the fish tank at rest.

Food habit

Kissing fish have miscellaneous feeding habits, although they are large fish species, but they are generally not interested in large water fleas, but they often open their mouths for a long time to "drink" some small water fleas in order to be full, which is also a special feeding way for tropical fish. When raising fish, they also like to suck the moss on the walls of the box and aquatic plants with thick lips, so they often put a kissing fish in each box to do "scavengers".

Reproductive habit

Kissing fish do not have a fixed breeding season under artificial feeding conditions, and reproduction is relatively simple, it is better to raise in pairs, and a large amount of food can be conducive to reproduction. When they are 15 months old, they enter the sexual maturity period 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 the male and the female, and at the same time pour in some distilled water to stimulate the parent fish to be in estrus. The spawning process of each female fish lasts for several hours and can lay more than 1000 eggs, sometimes up to 2000 eggs. As kissing fish have the habit of devouring fish eggs, more floating aquatic plants should be planted in the breeding tank.

Kissing habit

The most interesting kissing fish is that when two fish meet each other, their mouths kiss each other for different periods of time, but quite frequently, which is also a rare phenomenon in the fish world. as for why kissing fish have this strange habit, there are different opinions, and some breeders think that kissing fish's kissing action is an expression of love between male kissing fish and female kissing fish. However, it has also been found that kissing is not limited to male kissing fish and female kissing fish, but also between same-sex fish. In fact, this kind of behavior is not flirting or fighting, but only a kind of "mouth fetish" and a habit.