Centella taimingensis

Kissing fish, also known as kissing fish, kissing fish, peach blossom fish, kissing fish, kissing fish, kissing betta fish and so on. Taxonomically, it belongs to Perciformes, Kissing Family, and Carassius, and is famous for loving to kiss each other. In fact, not only heterosexual fish, but also homosexual fish have the action of "kissing", so it is generally believed that the "kissing" of kissing fish is not a manifestation of friendship, but perhaps a struggle. The body color is light red. Its English name is Kissing fish, which means parent fish. Tropical fish lovers in Shanghai often use Chinese and English names as parent fish.

Origin: Thailand, Indonesia, Sumatra.

Habit: gentle, non-aggressive, and can be mixed.

Water quality: PH7.0-7.5 is the best for water that is not demanding but slightly hard.

Body shape: the body length of kissing fish is generally 20 ~ 30 cm. The body is rectangular. The head is big, the mouth is big, especially the lips are thick and big, and there are thin serrations. Big eyes with yellow edges. Dorsal fin and gluteal fin are particularly long, extending from the posterior edge of gill cover to the caudal stalk, and the middle of the posterior edge of caudal fin is slightly concave. The pectoral fin and ventral fin are fan-shaped and the caudal fin is normal. The body color is mainly meat white, which looks like duck eggs. The suitable water temperature for parent fish is 2 1 ~ 28℃, and the optimum growth temperature is 22 ~ 26℃, and it likes acidic soft water. It can scrape fixed algae and roll up and down when scraping, which is extremely lively. Parent fish is mild and lively, and is suitable for mixed culture with more lively tropical fish. There is also a kind of kiss fish that is light blue, but it is rare. Another kind of heart shape in the aquarium market is their artificially improved variety, which makes its body more attractive.

Feed: gluttony, the main food is frozen Artemia, and earthworms also like to eat it. Especially interested in salmon and trout eggs.

Price: 1~ 15 RMB 1.

Breeding: Different from fighting fish. It does not spit or nest, but directly lays floating eggs and floats on the water. The egg is amber. If it is white, it means that the egg is not fertilized. The number of eggs laid is large, 4000- 10000 each time. If you don't choose and feed the kissing fish well, it swims slowly, looks like a tropical fish and has a lot of manners. Because this kind of fish is red and white, like peach blossom, many experts call it peach blossom fish. Parent fish are easy to raise. There is no special requirement for water quality, and the water temperature is between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius. Many students still feed their relatives fish with small cups and bottles in the dormitory. However, because the parent fish is relatively large, it is recommended to choose a larger feeding tank. Kissing fish has a gentle temperament, moves in groups in various water layers and can live with other fish. And its diet is very miscellaneous, and it is not picky about food at all. It eats bread worms, broken earthworms and artificial feed, and it eats whatever its owner feeds it. He not only grows fast, but also has good resistance and seldom gets sick. Children and grandchildren with scattered branches have no fixed breeding season, so breeding is simple. Parent fish enter sexual maturity at the age of 15 months, and can reproduce many times a year. When you plan to breed small fish, you can put the parent fish into the breeding pond according to the ratio of male and female 1: 1, and add some distilled water to stimulate the parent fish to estrus. The spawning process of each female fish lasts for several hours, and can lay more than 1000 eggs, and some can reach 2000-3000 eggs. Since parent fish have the habit of swallowing fish eggs, it is necessary to grow a variety of floating aquatic plants in the culture tank.

Value: Parent fish has both ornamental value and edible value, and is a kind of fish with high economic value. Compared with other tropical fish, parent fish has no bright and moving colors, but it is still favored by tropical fish lovers. This is because kissing fish not only has the unique skill of "kissing", but also has excellent swimming skills. They can do somersaults and jump in the water, just like excellent gymnasts perform somersaults, which makes people applaud.

Kissing fish is a tropical fish. Their hometown is in Java and Borneo in Southeast Asia. Local residents like kissing fish very much and often keep them in fish tanks to watch their "kissing" performances. Later, kissing fish became a world-famous ornamental fish, and the market price soared, reaching about 100 US dollars per tail. Kissing fish is oval, with large head, mouth and pectoral fins. The body color is milky white and reddish, and the lips and eye mask are red. Some kiss fish are silver-gray or blue-green, and a few kiss fish are white. Under natural conditions, the body length of parent fish can reach about 30 cm.

Kissing: If you want to enjoy the spectacle of their "kissing", you can wait patiently by the aquarium with parent fish and feast your eyes. When two kiss fish meet, both sides will reach out their long serrated lips and touch each other hard, just like lovers "kissing" for a long time. However, this "kiss" is not "courtship", but a struggle. Because parent fish have the habit of defending "territory", they fight with long lips as soon as they meet, and solve the dispute of "territory" until one side gives in and gives in, and "kissing" ends.

When two fish meet, they are like two suckers firmly attached to each other. They can kiss for a whole afternoon and touch each other hard, regardless of the influence of the surrounding environment. Don't think this is the affection between their lovers. In fact, this is a fighting phenomenon, fighting to defend your own space field! However, this kind of struggle is not fierce. As long as one side gives in, the winner will not continue to pursue it, but will continue to bury himself in its cleaning work as if nothing had happened. Therefore, their habits are mild and will not pose a threat to any other fish, so they are suitable for polyculture.

Although zoologists have confirmed that the kissing action of kissing fish may be a nature of fighting for territory, it is really interesting to watch the fish kissing affectionately, so many young people are scrambling to raise kissing fish now, which means their love can be sweet.

Natural fish tank "scavenger"

The kissing habit of parent fish is very beneficial to the ecology of fish tank. Parent fish often eat algae and moss on the walls of aquatic plants and aquariums with their mouths, which can make aquatic plants bright green and keep the tank walls clean, which is of great significance for cleaning aquariums. Parent fish often stand upside down when eating algae and moss at the bottom of the box, which is very interesting. Although the parent fish is a large fish species, it is not interested in the general large water fleas, and often opens its mouth to "drink" some small water fleas to satisfy its stomach, which is also a special feeding method for tropical fish. Because raising parent fish kills two birds with one stone, many people will put several parent fish in the tropical fish box as "scavengers". Although the parent fish is so busy, it is still not a good "aquarium scavenger" because although they like to peck at algae, it is not their staple food. Kissing fish eat a lot and can accept any bait. Eating algae is just its nature, and it consumes a lot of body energy to supplement its activity habits. With its growth and development, its excrement will increase greatly, almost exceeding the dirt it "cleans up"!

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Part I: Falling Flowers and Fruitful Fruits

Bottom line: kiss the fish, kiss.

Peanut is another name for growing fruit.

Parent fish is also called parent fish.

Literally, it can be understood as: growing fruit after flowering, and it can also be understood as the growth process of peanuts.

Literally, it can be understood as: a kiss is a kiss of a fish, and it can also be understood as a kiss of a fish.

Falling flowers, peanuts, growth, long fruit. (the growth process of peanuts)

Kiss, kiss fish, kiss fish, kiss mouth. (kissing the fish on the mouth)

Another solution: scientific name and common name of peanut

Another solution: the scientific name and common name of parent fish

Parent fish is a scientific name, and parent fish is an alias.