Cichlids
When choosing cichlids, you should not only look at the appearance, Also look at your fitness level. If you choose a strong cichlid, later raising will be easier. However, a cheap, not strong enough cichlid is likely to die during the raising process, which is not worth the gain.
1. The collective must be strong
If It is common to find that only individuals in a group show listlessness, loss of vitality and willingness to eat, or even obvious symptoms in obvious body surface areas. Then it can be expected that if not treated in time, not only the related Feelings spread quickly to other individuals, and at the same time, they can easily become media that carry disease records. Therefore, for this kind of individuals, even if you choose the most energetic and colorful ones, the beauty and appreciation value are short-lived; naturally, this kind of individuals that may become the media of disease transmission is It is absolutely forbidden to buy and bring back for maintenance; no matter how attractive the price is, these seemingly "short and safe" individuals have no maintenance value.
Two. Individual adoption
Be careful when reviewing the species. The vitality, appetite and physical condition of each individual in the population are healthy and safe, and breeders can make healthy inferences about specific individuals in the population. Because a wide variety of lake cichlids, especially male individuals, will gradually reveal their territory after close reproductive maturity, so when they see a specific one or several individuals, they will continue to borrow territory. From chasing, chasing, biting and even fighting, in order to protect their advantages in occupying movement space, couples and even food materials in the environment. This kind of scalability, which develops rapidly with reproductive maturity, not only directly affects the vitality and body color expression of individuals, but also causes slight disturbances in the growth, movement and body color expression of other common individuals. Therefore, except for those specific individuals that have reached the stage of reproductive maturity and have an environmental advantage, which can display colors and lustres unique to their species, individuals in the general population, especially some unique young males, often display different colors and vitality. suppressed; however, thisThe oppression and tension caused by competition are obviously different from the weakness caused by disease. For a safe and healthy individual, in addition to having a smooth and clear eyeball surface, a complete body surface with a specific metallic color, and a safe breathing speed as seen by the normal opening and closing of the gills, the swimming speed It should be stable and coordinated, with all fins fully spread when viewed from the side or the back, and the pectoral fins and pelvic fins can show symmetrical and gentle shaking; in addition, the individual's movement in the water layer should be quiet and continuous. , there should be no very tight vibrations, and there should be no conflicting swimming movements, and the body should rub the sand layer or rock surface.
Cichlids
3. Feeding test
In addition, feeding intention can also be used as an inference when using individual key evidence of health status. Generally speaking, most individuals will focus on specific corners in the tank due to curiosity about light and shadow or people's closeness and the feeding action; at the same time, when the bait is added, how can it actively absorb it? , and even trigger brief chases and fights during the scramble for food. However, if after the bait is added, an individual has no intention to eat at all, or only moves forward but does not take the initiative to grab food, after eliminating the factors that disrupt the individual's willingness to eat, such as improper variety of bait, variation in quality, or low ambient water temperature, it may be possible to It is necessary to conduct further investigation on the individual health status. Due to the phenomenon of food refusal of individuals, their psychological and health conditions have been affected by the disease. In particular, some related symptoms that appear in the digestive tract, in addition to listlessness and low energy, are often affected. Accompanied by long-term refusal to eat are the slenderness, back muscle atrophy and weakness, abdominal depression, and redness, swelling and abnormal mucus in the anus area that disappear.
There are many varieties of cichlids. We can choose according to our own preferences, but we must buy them rationally and determine the health of the fish before buying it.
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