Kiss, fight, kiss fish.

Aliases: kissing fish, kissing Douyu, peach blossom fish.

Family and genus: Percidae

Origin: Indonesia, distributed in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia.

[characteristics] the body length is 10-15 cm. Body ovoid, laterally flattened. The body color is silvery white, slightly pinkish, and the kiss is reddish. Wild kissing fish are 30-40 cm long.

[feeding characteristics] mild temperament, can be mixed with other species of fish. The feeding water temperature is 21: 28 ℃, and the requirement of water quality is not strict. Fast growth, strong physique, not easy to get sick. Live food is the main food.

[reproductive characteristics] the age of sexual maturity of parent fish is 6 months. During the breeding period, the male fish has a marriage color, the body color changes from pink to purplish red, the body is smaller than the female fish, and the female fish has a fat and round belly. The breeding water temperature is 2728 ℃ and the water quality is neutral. Floating several aquatic plants on the surface of the 100cm × 50cm × 50cm aquarium, release a pair of parent fish, the male does not build a floating nest, chase the female, and the female lays eggs on the aquatic plant. The parent fish will be fished out after spawning. After 24 hours of hatching, the newly hatched larvae float on the water and can swim for food after the yolk sac is absorbed in the abdomen. Female fish lay a lot of eggs.

As the name implies, because kissing fish can "kiss", people give them this interesting name. Kissing is a kind of emotional communication for humans, but for fish, what is kissing for?

Compared with other tropical fish, kissing fish do not have bright and moving colors, but they are still recognized by tropical fish lovers. This is because kissing fish not only have the unique skill of "kissing", but also have excellent swimming skills. They can tumble and jump in the water, which is as wonderful as excellent gymnasts perform somersaults.

If you want to enjoy the spectacle of their kissing, you can feast your eyes by waiting patiently by the aquarium with kissing fish. When two kissing fish meet, both sides will stick out their long jagged lips and touch each other vigorously, like lovers'"hot kisses" for a long time. However, this kind of "kiss" is not "courtship", but a fight. Because the kissing fish have the habit of defending the "territory", when the two meet, the two sides do not give way to each other, so they have to resort to force and fight with long lips to resolve the dispute over the "territory". It is not until one party gives in that the kiss ends.

Interestingly, 2-month-old young kissing fish have "kissing" behavior, indicating that kissing fish are born with this habit of protecting "territory", which may be due to heredity.

It has a wide adaptability to water quality, can scrape and feed on inherent algae, can inhibit the growth of green algae, is conducive to the cleanliness of the bottom of the box, gentle temperament, good groups of tropical fish that are easy to swim and easy to move, and should not be mixed with goldfish. Kissing young fish begin to kiss, kissing is a territorial dispute. At the age of 6 months, the body color of the male fish changes to purplish red during the breeding period, and it is a sign that the female fish is about to give birth when they often swim with the female fish. The parent fish is put in another water tank, the water temperature is set to 28 degrees, the water hardness is about 9, and the water plants are placed on the surface to lay eggs, and the parent fish are removed after spawning. The newly hatched larvae of the fertilized eggs hatch within 24 hours, and the newly hatched larvae begin to swim for food after 2 days. Feed high-quality feed fish and insects, water @ # @ 254 fish @, etc., so as not to affect the growth and development.