Ancestors of a skalyariya or as it is called still - fishes angels, got to aquariums from the slow and current reservoirs of Amazon. Having quiet, peaceful temper this small fish gets on in the general aquarium almost with all other species not of aggressive fishes and the popularity of many aquarians deserved. But how to distinguish at skalyariya a female from a male?
Instruction
1. If one of the purposes of maintenance of skalyariya is their reproduction, then it is necessary to know that puberty at these small fishes comes on average aged from seven months up to one year. Containing a flock from 6-10 fishes, skalyariya choose to themselves partners and break into couples for reproduction. It is not difficult to define the created couple even to the inexperienced aquarian – these small fishes begin to keep aloof from lump and begin to look for to themselves the corner suitable for postponement of caviar.
2. As a rule, after that couples otsazhivat in a separate aquarium or separate in the general aquarium a partition that after postponement of caviar, other fishes could not destroy it.
3. Sexual distinctions at skalyariya are expressed rather poorly. At young small fishes who did not reach age for reproduction sexual characters are practically absent. During puberty the back fin of a male becomes longer, and on his back part more strips appear. The trunk of mature males is slightly larger, than at the self-check of the age.
4. Also it is possible to distinguish a male from a female of a skalyariya on a characteristic forehead. At a male a frontal part of the head becomes convex and reminds a hump, and at a female, on the contrary, becomes a little concave. The stomach of a female who prepares for reproduction is inflated from the ripening berries.
5. During spawning of a male of a skalyariya it is possible to distinguish from a female on a sharp and narrow semyaprovod. In the same time at a female it is formed yaytseklad which gets the wide and short form reminding a tubule. Before spawning these differences between males and females are practically absent.
6. It is necessary to remember that skalyariya are one-woman men. In case of death or change in other aquarium of one of partners, small fishes can die, having damaged themselves about the objects which are in an aquarium or even, having jumped out of it.