What does a street sweeper mean?

The street sweeper used to refer to the cleaner of the city, but now it is often said that the street sweeper is a species of aquarium originally from South America. Because it takes garbage and algae in the fish tank as the staple food, it can clean and purify the water environment to a certain extent, so it is called the "cleaner" in the aquarium, so it also has the name of the scavenger.

What kind of fish is a street sweeper?

The scavenger is the common name of the multi-spoke-winged catfish and lower-mouth catfish of the subfamily Clariinae, also known as sucker fish, garbage fish, anglerfish, etc., with strong adaptability, can survive almost as long as there is water, and is often adsorbed on the walls of aquarium boxes or water plants to lick moss. After adulthood, they eat a lot of food. In addition to eating algae such as moss, they often eat the eggs of other fish. They can eat 3000 to 5000 eggs a day, and they can also swallow a large number of fish fry.

Morphological characteristics of street sweeper

The sweeper has a gray-black body with black-and-white patterns, rough body surface with shield scales, flat head, towering dorsal fins, flattened tail, round snout, lower mouth, rich suckers and a pair of thorns. Thorns can support the body and crawl on land. The fish is semi-cylindrical with wide side and shallow forked caudal fin. Under the mouth. The dorsal thread is broad, the abdomen is flat, and the left and right ventral fins are connected to form a round fan-shaped sucker. From the ventral side, it looks like a small pipa, so it is also called anglerfish. The fish is dark brown and covered with black spots. The body length can be up to 250 mm and it will turn white.

Scavenger breed

1. Ordinary scavengers: ordinary scavengers are also called King Alien, or sucking catfish. The country of origin is Paraguay, South America. People raise scavengers to remove dirt from fish faeces and residual feed at the bottom of fish tanks. Because scavengers are very omnivorous aquatic creatures, no matter they are algae, dead fish carcasses, moss, and fish insects, as long as they are edible, they will eat them all.

2. Ornamental scavengers: ornamental scavengers actually include many, including leopard scavengers, king variant varieties of red scavengers, gold scavengers and so on. The leopard scavenger mainly refers to the scavenger with the leopard pattern on his body. Like the ordinary scavenger, it is very easy to raise and the lines of the body look good, but he will not suck fish like the ordinary scavenger. It is more suitable for family breeding and beautifying the home. Hongqing Daofu and Jin scavenger just change their colors through variation to meet people's various needs, and can make a variety of choices according to their own interests and hobbies.