Can a street sweeper be mixed with koi?

Scavenger fish is also called sucker fish, garbage fish, angler fish, etc. Many people are used to putting a scavenger in the tank when raising fish. The young fish are mild, the adult fish are fierce, the young fish mainly feed on the algae attached to the stone, and the adult fish are converted into omnivorous carnivorous and eat a lot. Let's take a look at whether Qingfu can be mixed with koi!

Can scavengers be mixed with koi?

Cleaners do not recommend mixing with koi. Although in theory, scavengers and koi can be raised together, but the temperature cannot be too low, too low scavengers can not stand, too high and not good for koi, and cleaning effect is not very good, only eat moss, but also snatch fish food. At the same time, the scavenger will suck the mucous membrane from the koi body and will not repent, but if the individual difference is too large, the koi will also bite the scavenger.

What do scavenger fish eat?

Scavengers are omnivorous fish, feeding on algae, benthos and garbage in the water, and can also devour fish eggs and fry in large quantities. In the aquarium, it often adsorbs on stones and glass to stabilize the body and suck algae. It also searches for benthos (such as water earthworms). For small pellets floating on the water surface, it will suck them upside down. Its mouth is like a vacuum cleaner, sucking fish dung and green plants into its stomach. There is also a bubble in the mouth. This bubble contains oxygen and can stay in water for a long time.

What can scavenger fish be mixed with?

1. Rosefish: Rosefish is distributed in coral reef waters from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean. It is carnivorous and can be fed with animal bait and artificial feed. Once it adapts to life in aquarium, most of live bait and dry feed can be accepted. Only do not eat flake feed. Do not mix with agile and gluttonous fish. Otherwise, Rosefish will not get food. Feeding time is best at night. This is in line with its nocturnal lifestyle and helps to accept new food.

2. Golden Fish: Golden fish is also called Baiyunshan fish, white cloud golden fish, red tail fish, Tang fish, etc. It is a famous ornamental fish with colorful body color when living. It is generally brown on the back and silver white on the abdomen. There is a golden yellow or silver blue longitudinal stripe along the middle of the body. There are several dark brown lines above and below the stripe. There is a red round spot at the base of the tail handle. The iris is golden. The base of the dorsal fin is red. The other fins are yellow and green. The edge is transparent. This fish was originally found in Baiyunshan Creek in the suburbs of Guangzhou. Therefore, the English name is Baiyunshan fish.

Zebrafish: Zebrafish is also called blue fish, flower fish, blue zebrafish, Indian fish, Indian zebrafish, etc., the body is elongated and slightly spindle-shaped, the head is small and slightly pointed, the snout is short, the whole body is covered with a number of dark blue vertical lines like zebra, and silver or golden vertical lines are arranged alternately, when swimming in groups in the aquarium, it is like running in the African grassland zebra group, so it is called zebrafish, it is a kind of fish that is relatively easy to raise.

4. Tigerfish: Tigerfish scientific name four-banded barb, otherwise known as four-room fish, four-room crucian carp, etc., origin is Malaysia, Indonesia Sumatra Island, Kalimantan Island and other inland waters, good group, swimming agile, lively, adult fish will attack it fish, especially like biting filamentous fins, not suitable for mixed breeding with fish with filamentous fins (such as angelfish), suitable for the same kind of group breeding.