A bright, exotic and extremely mobile Cichlazoma Salvini belongs to the cychelide family, it comes from the banks of natural freshwater reservoirs at the junction of South and North America. Despite the decorative appearance, the fish is an active hunter, usually peaceful, it is able to show explicit aggression when the question of protecting the territory. To contain cichlase, novice aquarists need to study the features and habits of this animal.
Description of type
Pencing Okunyok, as often called cigal fish, has a notable appearance. The main tone of his taurus ranges between light and deeper shades of yellow and greed-green, two is sin-black lines from the eye to the tail. The abdomen is red or orange. In addition, the hull is covered with blue spots and specks.
Unfortunately, until then, until Salvini becomes an adult person, it represents an unsuccessful gray animal and, only entering into the reproductive age, acquires its wonderful colorful color.
In nature, these fish feel comfortable in rivers, distinguished by a strong course, while other types of cichlase can lead a drive lifestyle, Salvini swim and hunt in different layers of water, feeding in insects, shallow fish, mollusks, worms, sponges and other species Invertebrates.
Fish torso dimensions - from 12 to 18 cm depending on whether it is or a female, so animals are quite suitable for aquarium content, although in nature there are sometimes larger copies of 20 cm long. However, to make a delicious beauty I need to know about it and less pleasant details.
During the spawning period, which occurs every 30 days, and in the future (during the growth of "children") the head of the family begins to behave inadequate , terrorizing other types of aquarium inhabitants, as well as relative fish, in one word, all that fell under a hot hand, including Mom fry. Because of this, it will be necessary to regularly disend of other fish or contain cichlase pairs. If it is still planned to combine a predator with neighbors, you will need a more spacious home - aquarium with an increased twice water volume.
Conditions of detention
Even a pair of cichlase will require an impressive space - 180-200 liters, but if you settle with other representatives of the underwater fauna next to it, the container must be a capacity of at least 400 liters.
There are some other requirements.
- Since the animal is familiar to the tropical climate, the temperature at which it feels comfortable - 25-27 degrees. On the scale of rigidity indicators, that is, the content of magnesium and calcium salts in water, from 7-16 units. With pH of water from 6 to 8 units.
- The fish does not tolerate the polluted medium, it needs clean water with a sufficient level of oxygen for active movement, so an aquarium is important to equip internal and external filters. It is also important to establish an aeration system - a compressor or a pump with this feature.
- For the bottom space, you can use any soil: fine and large sand, small pellets of mineral rocks, gravel, stone crumb.
- The presence of vegetation for the animal is irrelevant, but it is necessary for biological equilibrium and shading. Despite the fact that for the fish the main thing is the space for movement, you can land a few bushes of plants in the corners or closer to the aquarium walls so that the middle remains free. At times, Salvani can hide in the thickets, because it does not like bright light, and for spawning, there is a pair of pockets in the soil in secluded shaded places.
- But the cichlid is not indifferent to the underwater "architecture": all sorts of snapshots, labyrinth facilities with throughcons.
- Replacing part of the water so that it remains clean, it is necessary once every 7 days, fully rinse the aquarium is not less common than 1 time in 2-3 months.
How and what to feed?
Cichlid, first of all, a predator, besides voracious, therefore, it is necessary to consider the diet in advance. A real delicacy for fish is live food, for example, small fish. But also cychlasoma will not refuse both the feed sold in the frozen state: Artemia, the Moth, Daphneia, the rainworms.
You can feed the animal with seafood, shrimps, which are defrosting and crushed before feeding. For the diversity of Salvini, it is necessary to feed vegetable additives: such vegetables like spinach, zucchini, lettuce leaflets, dandelion. They are rubbed, form balls of them.
But the main nutrition for fish should be a special balanced feed for cichelide in the form of flakes, granules and sticks for especially large copies, which contains fish, meat and vegetable components.
Adult fishes are fed once a day, grown fry - 2 times. Food is given as much as animals will eat in 12-14 minutes. Everything that is left is desirable to immediately catch and delete so as not to pollute the water.
What kind of types can cichlazoma serve?
With a sufficient space of aquarium, there is an opportunity to settle near El Salvani from other fish, with which they have relative compatibility. But for this they will not fit the gentle and small inhabitants of the underwater world, including so popular neons, guppies and even scalaries, which relate to the family of cichlase.
Perhaps, The best accommodation options are other varieties of cichlid , as well as such types of soms, like Caracatum, Anzitrus, corridors living in the bottom zone.
Growing in aquarium
Cichlase can be called alolyubs, they create couples and comply with marital loyalty throughout their life, once a month making masonry, numbering 500 eggs. To do this, the smooth and smooth surface is selected - a large sheet or stone.
Already after 6-7 days after fertilization, fry are born. Cikhlida is zealous parents who are fluttering each eggs. It is possible to understand that the spawning will come soon, it is possible for the fact that the temperature of the water in the aquarium increased by several degrees.
So that the spawning has passed successfully, and the kids grow well, weak lighting, clean and oxygen-saturated water, the absence of pathogenic microorganisms in it. For feeding "Children" you can use a finely absorbed tube, larvae of Artemia, infusoria ("live dust").
If you wish to purchase inexperienced aquarists, you need to poshibul What are the needs of this exotic fish with unpredictable behavior, and to start not combine it with other representatives of the aquatic environment.
Further about Cychlause Salvini, see the video below.