Showing posts with label Freshwater Fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freshwater Fish. Show all posts

Dalmation Molly

Mollies are some of the easiest species to raise once you know what you are doing. They can be raised equally in fresh water, brackish, or fully saltwater.

The key to keeping mollies is that the tank needs to get an adequate amount of sunlight, so that natural algae can grow in the tank, which they will quickly devour like crazy. Only the green algae, not the hard or blue-green algae.

Also, they need an abundance of live plants if possible, or vegetable flakes of some kind. They are omnivorous, but are mostly on the vegetarian side. The tanks need to be large and warm, no lower than 24°C or they will start to shimmy. At lower temperatures they will develop all kinds of illness: ich, velvet (most common) and flukes. 25-26°C is ideal.

Flowerhorn - Golden Monkey Red Face

The Flowerhorn, also called Luohan (Luo Han), is a intergeneric cichlid hybrid. Flowerhorns are thought to arise from the man-made hybridization of a number of cichlid species, from South and Central America.

Although the exact parent species are not known, it is most likely that they include Cichlasoma trimaculatum and Amphilophus citrinellus (or another fish of the red devil cichlid) complex. Flowerhorns first emerged for sale on the aquarium market in Malaysia in the late 1990s and soon became popular in many countries in Asia. As a probable intergeneric hybrid the fish lacks a specific Latin name. Flowerhorns are, unlike many other hybrids, fertile.


Calico Ranchu

Ranchus (often called egg fish) are very interesting goldfish in that they have no dorsal fin. The lack of dorsal fin along with their metallic scales gives them a very shiny appearance in the pond. Calico Ranchu goldfish have a wide range of colours such as red, orange, black, grey blue, and white in beautiful patterns.

Red and White Ranchu

The ranchu goldfish is one of the most precious goldfish on Earth and is a treasured household pet all across the world.

So what makes the ranchu goldfish special from any other breed? Well one of the main things that sets a ranchu apart from any other goldfish is its bazaar appearance. It has an unusually large head that closely resembles the look and shape of a lionhead.

In fact the only thing that makes a ranchu goldfish different from a lionhead is that it has a much more curved posterior dorsal contour. Basically first glimpse of a ranchu would have you believe they are the same as a lionhead, but once you take a closer look at the tail, you will be able to tell them apart easily.

Red Salamander

The fish called Red Salamander. Although most salamanders are drab colors, some, like the red salamander, colors that are different from their surroundings.

This species of salamander that live near streams and springs in Central Eastern Europe, North America.
 

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