What kind of feed does clown fish eat?
Clown fish is a common name for the fishes of the subfamily Sparidae, a tropical saltwater fish, named because there are one or two white stripes on the face like clowns in Beijing Opera, inhabiting coral reefs and reefs. Juvenile fish often symbiosis with large sea anemones, sea urchins or small corals, so they are also called sea anemones. Let's take a look at what kind of feed clown fish eat.
What kind of feed does clown fish eat?
Clown fish is omnivorous fish, artificial clown fish food is relatively simple, pellets, minced shrimp or other omnivorous bait can be, but in the first two months to add some natural astaxanthin, spirulina powder can make the fish more colorful, because the breeding farm domestication time is relatively short, if you can add some harvest insects after feeding.
The growth and reproduction of clown fish
Clownfish are not the only hermaphrodites, but they are one of the few species in which males can become females and females cannot become males. Each clown fish population has a dominant female and several adult males, who are hermaphroditic in adolescence. If the dominant female dies, one of the adult males will undergo hormonal changes and become the new female in the population. During the spawning period, male and female fish have the domain behavior of protecting nests and eggs. One end of their eggs will be fixed to a stone and hatched for a week or so. After the young fish float in the water layer for a period of time, they will inhabit symbiotic organisms such as sea anemones.
Common species of clown fish
1. Prince clown fish: Prince clown fish are distributed in the reef areas of the South China Sea, the Philippines and the Western Pacific Ocean, with a length of 10 cm and 12 cm and an oval shape. The body color is orange, and there are three silver-white bands on the side of the body, which are located behind the eyes, the center of the dorsal fin and the caudal handle, in which the leucorrhea in the center of the dorsal fin forms a triangle on the side of the body, and each fin has a black edge. The bait is rich shrimp, seaweed, chopped fish, pellet feed and so on.
2. Black double-belt clown fish: black double-belt clown fish is distributed in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean, with a length of 10 cm to 15 cm and an oval shape. The whole body is purple-black, and there are three silver-white vertical bands on the side behind the eyes, the middle of the dorsal fin and the tail handle, the mouth is silver-white, and there is a black belt through the eyes. The water quality is required to be clarified, and the bait includes harvest shrimp, fish and insects, chopped fish and shrimp meat, sea water fish pellet feed and so on.
3. Red clown fish: red clown fish is distributed in the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, with a length of 10 cm to 15 cm and an oval shape. The whole body is purple-black, each fin is purple-red, and there are three silver-white bands on the side behind the eyes, the middle of the dorsal fin and the tail handle, which is very beautiful. The bait includes algae in seawater, animal plankton, pellet feed for marine fish and so on.
4. Red double-belt clown fish: red double-belt clown fish is distributed in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, Taiwan, South China Sea and the Philippines, with a length of 10 cm and 12 cm and an oval shape. The whole body is bright red, with two silver bands on the side behind the eyes and in the middle of the dorsal fin. The body color of double-belt clowns is changeable, including bright red, purple, purple and black, etc. The bait includes marine fish pellet feed, chopped fish meat, seaweed and so on. The water quality requires clarification.
5. Coffee clown fish: coffee clown fish are distributed in the coral reefs of the Philippines, Taiwan and the Pacific Ocean, with a length of 5cm and an oval shape. The whole body is light brown, and there is a white band behind the eyes, just like a silver ring around the neck. The mouth is silvery white, from the mouth along the back to the caudal stalk and the dorsal fin. Bait has algae, fish and insects, harvest shrimp, marine fish pellet feed and so on.
6. Pacific three-belt clowns: Pacific three-belt clowns are distributed only in the waters around the Marshall Islands, with brown in the front and black in the back of the adult body, with three white vertical bands on the side, behind the eyes, in the center of the body and on the tail stalk, respectively. the body color varies according to different species of symbiotic sea anemones, feeding mainly on plankton, copepods, invertebrates and various seaweeds.
7. Double-belt clowns on the Great Barrier Reef: double-belt clowns on the Great Barrier Reef are distributed in the coral reef waters of the Western Pacific Ocean, including eastern Australia, New Caledonia and the Royal Islands. The adult fish is brown, grayish red in front of the eyes, with a wide band from black to white behind the eyes, and a white band with black edges between the middle of the dorsal fin and the anus, which mainly feeds on plankton and invertebrates.
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