The living habits of grass carp

Grass carp like to live in the water body of many aquatic plants, inhabit the middle and lower layers of the water body, lively, fast-moving, swimming very fast. Grass carp eat a lot of food, often looking for food in groups, and grab food from each other when they encounter food.

Grass carp has a strong adaptability to water temperature, and can survive in water from 0.5 to 38 degrees Celsius, the suitable water temperature is 20 to 32 degrees Celsius, the most suitable water temperature is 27 to 30 degrees Celsius, and the maximum food intake is between 27 and 30 degrees Celsius. The food intake decreases when the water temperature is less than 20 degrees Celsius, stops eating when the water temperature is less than 5 degrees Celsius, and begins to die when the water temperature is less than 0.5 degrees Celsius or higher than 40 degrees Celsius.

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) is a typical herbivorous fish. under natural growth conditions, grass carp mainly feed on aquatic plants and other plant bait. Young fish like to eat duckweed, purple back duckweed, verticillium verticillata and so on. Adult fish like to eat bitter grass, eyelid, duckweed, young aquatic grass and land grass.