Can scavengers be mixed with goldfish?

Scavenger fish belongs to the catfish family, also known as sucker fish, garbage fish, anglerfish and so on. They are very adaptable and can survive almost as long as they have water. They often lick moss on the walls of aquarium tanks or on aquatic plants. They are often raised in aquariums as scavengers. Let's take a look at whether doffer can be mixed with goldfish.

Can a street sweeper be mixed with goldfish?

Scavengers can't mix with goldfish. The scavenger is a tropical fish and the goldfish is a cold-water fish. the water quality of the two kinds of fish is different. The scavenger needs weakly acidic water above 20 degrees to have bottom sand, water plants, etc., and goldfish needs weak alkaline water to raise them in an open tank. And the bacteria and viruses on the two bodies are also different, raising them together is easy to cross-infection, and once the goldfish gets sick, the scavenger will attack the goldfish for adsorbing goldfish scales. At the same time, because the clear doffer fish has the habit of sucking other fish, it is only suitable for mixed culture with fast swimming fish, but not with slow swimming fish such as goldfish.

What kind of food does the scavenger fish eat?

Scavenger fish are omnivorous aquatic creatures, often adsorbed on the aquarium box wall or aquatic plants, licking moss, fish secreted mucus on the tank wall and food residue left by the fish, but also devour fish eggs. When feeding, the bait can be mainly algae, but the feeding process also needs to be fed live food, such as water earthworms and so on. It is an indisputable fact that scavengers never eat fish droppings or poop.

What can the scavenger fish mix with?

1. Rosefish: rosefish are distributed in the coral reef waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. They are carnivorous and can be fed with animal bait and artificial fodder. Once adapted to the life in the aquarium, most of the live bait and dry feed can be accepted, but do not eat flake feed, do not mix with agile and gluttonous fish, otherwise the rose fish will not be able to grab food, and the feeding time is best at night. This is in line with its nocturnal lifestyle and helps to accept new foods.

2. Goldfish: goldfish, also known as Baiyunshan fish, Baiyun gold fillet, red tail fish, tang fish, etc., is a famous ornamental fish with a brown back and a silvery white abdomen, with a golden or silver-blue longitudinal stripe along the middle of the body, several dark brown lines above and below the streak, a red round spot at the base of the tail stalk, golden iris, red at the base of the dorsal fin, yellowish green on the other fins, and transparent edges. This fish was originally found in Baiyun Mountain Creek on the outskirts of Guangzhou, China, so it is called Baiyun Mountain Fish in English.

3. Zebrafish: zebrafish, also known as blue striped fish, striped fish, blue zebrafish, Indian fish, Indian zebrafish, etc., the body is elongated and slightly spindle-shaped, the head is small and slightly pointed, and the kiss is shorter, the whole body is covered with a number of dark blue longitudinal stripes like zebras, arranged alternately with silver-white or golden longitudinal patterns, swimming in groups in the aquarium is like a group of zebras running in the African prairie, so it is known as zebrafish, which is relatively easy to raise.

4. Tiger skin fish: Tiger skin fish scientific name Sijianyu, also known as four fish, four crucian carp, etc., the country of origin is Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra, Kalimantan and other inland waters, good gregarious, swimming agile, lively, adult fish will attack its fish, especially like to bite filamentous fins, should not be mixed with filamentous fin fish (such as fairy fish), should be cultured in the same group.