FH breeding tips & advice

[KAO LUO]

1)
Flowerhorn before the match is very important to the environment and water quality of the best in the Bottom 1 tiles to facilitate fish spawning, usually the male fish to lure female fish to lay their eggs before the first match put the male fish into the tank, so that the male fish recognized territory and then let the mother fish, male fish are a natural to invite female fish lay eggs, but there are also fish dislike things there.
2)
The best way to fight if there is partition from, let alone hatching eggs or fish, the mother left alone to protect the eggs until the fry hatch out of the mother fish and fish out. From the egg hatched fish need 4 to 7 days, female fish will bring water to the eggs with the tail more oxygen is best at this time due to the fish tank oxygenation, pay attention: the flow rate to control the fish tank is good, should not be dispersed eggs and thus fall short.
3)
small fish care fish after incubation with the egg yolk, and so on can be 2 ~ 3 days after feeding on the newly hatched Artemis shrimp and egg yolk water.
4)

Wait until the fish grow to 2 to 3 cm can be changed when fed
red worm, and, or chopped shrimp, nematodes better. As for the bigger fish stock to be artificially fed and minced Fort Khan live bait.

5)small fish at all stages of the care and feeding at this time could only eat plankton and small fish egg yolk water ↓

6)weeks 3 fish may eat the worm

7)weeks 5 feeding nematodes and chopped shrimp and small artificial feed (not with color pigment)

8)Flowerhorn as a good species in 2 to 3 months, there have basically been some characteristics of adult fish, then larger body lines, spots, and even lychee head, head, pearl point will have emerged, and this is what we call Varieties of good fish, the price of natural causes certainly expensive, the last hope that their reproduction is the water kok head flowerhorn to everybody



Thank you Kao Luo for your write up.
Really good effort on his part as he wrote his tips in Mandarin & then translated it to English for our benefit.