What’s a Tetra fish? How do you raise it?
What’s a Tetra fish? How do you raise it?Tetra fish is now the most used fish in aquascape, mainly used to simulate the rainforest style, at the same time, because of its small size and the characteristics of the group swimming, to add a touch of spirit to the aquatic plant tank, has become the second choice of many players, and it is a colorful color, and often flashes of light, very beautiful.
Origin of tetra
Tetra was first produced in South America along the Amazon River, in recent years, with the need to simulate the rainforest style in aquascape, and become the favorite of aquascape, has been hot from the Netherlands to the continent, and has become an important protagonist in aquascape.
Types of tetra
Tetra is a very beautiful fish, the color of the body is colorful, different fish have different styles, common tetra varieties are Paulownia tetra, red and green tetra, one eyebrow Taoist, red nose scissors, blue-eyed tetra, flame tetra, canary tetra, fire rabbit tetra, fire winged gold diamonds, miniature tetra and so on.
Breeding of tetra
Tetra is to a relatively easy to feed fish, once raised will not be easy to die, so in the selection of fish need special attention, there are three main points to pay attention to:
- Whether the swimming posture is smooth.
- Whether the color is uniform throughout the body.
- Whether the body of the fish is uniform.
The best temperature for keeping tetra
General tetra adapted to the temperature between 22-28 ℃ can be kept, and do not need to say as strict as the book said, is to maintain the temperature in a certain range of good tetra is not difficult, but in the water change remember to change the water and the water temperature in the aquarium to maintain the same temperature, the temperature difference do not be too big in winter, then you can use a heating rod to maintain the temperature, as for the summer you can use As for summer, you can use water cooler, fan or ice to maintain the temperature, at the same time, because the tetra is a group, in the summer, pay attention to whether there is the phenomenon of floating head, the temperature rises, the dissolved oxygen in the water will be reduced, which will cause the lack of oxygen in the fish, if necessary, you can reduce the amount of CO2 or fight oxygen.
Water quality requirements for keeping tetra
Tetra like weak acidic soft water, PH value can be maintained between 6-7 can, as long as the water quality PH to maintain a reasonable range, the tetra will show its most beautiful side to you; at the same time, the tetra is a kind of character is very mild fish, it will not attack other fish, but need to pay attention to say do not put the tetra and other large-scale fish, aggressive, relatively Fierce fish mixed together, this is easy to make the tetra hurt.
Common Diseases of tetra
The most common disease of tetra is white point disease, white point is mainly a parasite, will have the body surface drilling into the epidermis, absorb tetra nutrition, and finally make the tetra death, the reason for this is mainly in the water temperature instability or water quality instability, resulting in the tetra resistance to deteriorate, giving the white point to take advantage of the opportunity to white point disease once found on the need for timely treatment, and there is a certain degree of contagious.
