The suitable range of water temperature for the survival of peacock fish is 22 ℃ to 24 ℃. The hardness of water is 10-30dgh, and the pH value of water is 70-85. If the peacock fish reaches poor water quality or gets sick, the blue color will turn black.
What is peacock fish?
Peacock fish, distributed in the river basins of Venezuela, Guyana, West Indies and other places, also known as anchovies, Latin scientific name guppy (guppies).
Peacock fish, like its name, has a tail like peacock's opening screen. Its unique shape and feeding difficulty are not very popular with fish friends. In fact, peacock fish is a kind of fish introduced from abroad in early Taiwan to prevent dengue fever. There are hundreds of strains of peacock fish. According to the rules in the competition, they can be roughly divided into the following eight categories.
1、 There are fine spots on the grass tail, and there is no connection between each point.
2、 Mosaics have thick dots on their tails, each of which connects with each other.
3、 Tuxedo (tuxedo) has a tuxedo waist separated from the head by color.
4、 Solid the whole peacock fish is one color.
5、 Kingcobra fish have snake or leopard patterns on their bodies.
6、 The tail of sword shows single sword, double sword or base sword.
7、 White eyes are red eyes or wine red eyes.
8、 The fin type of special tail type and the more special species of tail type.
How to raise peacock fish?
Although peacock fish belongs to the breed with lower feeding difficulty, there are many precautions for raising this kind of fish well. Of course, first of all, your peacock fish should be healthy. Second, in the daily feeding process, you should also pay attention to the following basic feeding points to raise healthy peacock fish.
1、 Daily rearing of peacock fish
1. Suitable for temperature and water quality
The suitable water temperature range for the survival of peacock fish is 22 ℃ to 24 ℃. The hardness of water is 10-30dgh, and pH value of water is 7.0-8.5. If the water quality is poor or the peacock fish is sick, the blue color will become black.
2. Suitable for feeding food
The suitable food for keeping peacock fish is red thread worm, water flea or dry feed.
3. Fish tank size recommendations
The best choice for raising peacock fish is aquarium with a height of more than 45cm. Because peacock fish can be regarded as medium-sized ornamental fish. However, the specific size of the fish tank depends on the feeding amount.
4. Mixed feeding
Peacock fish has a mild temperament and can be mixed with mild small and medium-sized tropical fish.
2、 Breeding at the turn of spring and summer
1. Water temperature should be stable
Do not remove the heating rod first. Set a safe temperature, such as 25 ℃. If it is higher than this temperature, it will not work without electricity. In addition, pay attention to temperature difference when changing water. It is not suitable for new water to be too cold or too hot.
2. Density to be reduced
In order to reduce the discharge and keep the water clean. You don't have to talk about filtering systems.
3. Pay attention to the cleaning of live food
Especially the red worm. It's raised for 3 days and 5 days. It's kept by dripping water. When the temperature is higher from June to September, it is recommended not to feed live red worms, but frozen blood worms.
4. Pay attention to the disinfection of appliances
No matter whether the fish in the tank is sick or not, fishing net, straw, sponge or other utensils for cleaning the tank, or even the operator's hand, after contacting the water in one tank, should be used in another tank. It is better to soak potassium permanganate solution or soap for cleaning. Children's shoes with more tanks should pay special attention to this point. It's a headache to catch tail and white spots.