Butterfly fish is one of the most colorful marine fish, and it belongs to the typical coral reef fish in the butterflyfish family. Butterfly fish is a lifelong single spouse, loyal and single in love, most of them are in pairs, inseparable, just like the mandarin ducks in the land, so they are deeply loved by the public. So how do you raise butterflyfish? A pet editor will tell you!

1. Common species of butterflyfish

1. Moonlight butterfly

Moonlight butterfly is a A very charming fish, in natural waters, it feeds on coral polyps, as well as silk algae and underwater invertebrates. If given patience, it will accept most aquarium food. It is a large fish with a body length of up to 20cm.

2. Black Mirror Butterfly

Black Mirror Butterfly is the only fish with simple colors in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean. It is a very suitable fish for keeping in aquariums. With a body length of only 13cm, it is also one of the most disease-resistant butterflyfish species.

3. Net Butterfly

Net Butterfly is a fish widely distributed in the Indian Ocean, sometimes called Mosaic Butterfly, with a pleasing yellow pattern and a body length of about It can reach 16cm, adapt well, will accept most food, and is a butterfly fish that is very resistant to disease.

4. Pearl Butterfly

The Australian Pearl Butterfly is a butterfly fish distributed in the Hawaiian Islands and its surrounding waters, with a size of up to 16cm, and is a butterfly fish that loves to live with the same community. It adapts quickly and eats all foods, with brine shrimp, red blood worms, and shellfish being its favorites.

5. Horned butterflyfish

Distributed in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Nearly round, flat and high laterally; no sharp spines or scutellum on both sides of the caudal peduncle. The snout is prominent and pointed, tubular. Mouth small, teeth slender as bristles; hoe bone toothed, palatine bone toothless. Juveniles have spines at the corners of their mouths, and adults have a cone-shaped spine above their eyes, so they are also called horned butterflies.

2. Living habits of butterflyfish

1. Coral reef fish

Small and medium-sized fish in tropical warm water coral reef area. Often occur in pairs, during the reproductive period, will form a large group of activities. Its traces can be found in shallow waters to at least 180 meters deep.

2. Gorgeous ornamental fish

It is omnivorous, but most of its food is mainly benthic animals, such as sponges often more than algae. Not economical to eat, but unique body color and popular with aquarists.

3. Instructions for feeding butterfly fish

1. Feeding of bait

Butterfly fish are very picky eaters, if they only feed one or two kinds of butterfly fish Food tends to weaken. So it must be given a variety of bait to make it grow robustly.

2. Mixed fish species

Butterfly fish can be mixed with other fish species, but they have very different attitudes towards other fish of the same species. Mixed with radicals or gluttons. The more suitable polyculture companions are: mudskipper, upside-down fish, goby and so on.

3. Aquarium capacity

The aquarium for breeding butterfly fish should be as spacious as possible, and the minimum water capacity should be 210 liters, the bigger the better, and the back of the aquarium should be covered. There should be vertical reef background slabs and rocks, while there should be plenty of space in front.

4. pH value of water quality

The quality of the water for rearing butterfly fish is very important, and efforts should be made to keep the water clean, and maintain the stability of pH value and water temperature, even if it is a slight change. try to avoid. The pH value should be 8.3, the water temperature should be around 25°C, and the specific gravity should be 1.022.

IV. Precautions for rearing butterflyfish

1. Pay attention to isolation of new butterflyfish

Avoid keeping the same species of butterflyfish together. Butterfly fish that have been raised in the aquarium for a long time do not like new fish to move in, and they will collide and attack each other. In this case, attention should be paid to isolation, and a place for fish to hide should be set up in the aquarium.

2. Start with small butterflyfish

It is not suitable for beginner breeders and busy people to raise butterflyfish that are too small. Because the small butterfly fish has a small mouth and eats slowly, the small butterfly fish with a body length of less than 3 meters must be fed with fine bait several times a day.

3. Isolation of sick and injured fish

Small butterflyfish like to peck parasites from other fish with their beaks. 's condition worsened. It is best to isolate sick and injured fish.

4. Water temperature control to prevent fish disease

Like other ornamental fish, it is recommended to keep the water temperature at 23-28°C, and the normal temperature is 26°C. Do not change the temperature suddenly, and the temperature changes by more than 0.5°C Easy to make fish white spot disease.