Astronotus is one of the biggest aquarian fishes, reaching the size of 35 cm in length. As the native habitat of these fishes – a river basin Amazon, forms the basis of their food a small small fish. In general it is considered that the section "feeding" at cultivation of these subspecies is the most important.
Instruction
1. In conditions house cultivation for them it is enough to get a spacious and capacious aquarium with a capacity of 300-500 liters. In the similar home habitat of an astronotusa will absorb willingly earthworms (it is desirable to soak them in clear water within four hours), a large crank, pieces of meat of fishes, larvae of dragonflies, tadpoles, grasshoppers, skobleny meat, parts of the shrimps and mussels (is possible to scroll in the meat grinder) cut or the whole mollusks, the crushed beef meat, a liver, a small sea small fish (usually they swallow it entirely), etc.
2. It is better not to use an artificial forage for feeding, it only will pollute aquarium water, and will not give full saturation for your pets. If there is no other option of feeding nevertheless, choose the special granulated forage for astronotus. Anyway in a diet of your pets animal protein has to prevail.
3. It is more convenient to prepare for the future on two-three of kilograms of mix from different forages which can be processed on the blender and to pack into a plastic bag. Further directly in a package it is necessary to roll on a table and to freeze this flat cake in the freezer.
4. Apathetic and very sluggish astronotusa in general behave quite quietly, but once it fills forages – rush to food at full combat readiness. At the beginning of acquaintance to these a species of fishes they are very timid, some time recover from a stress when moving from one aquarium to another, but gradually accustom and at the sight of the owner often swim to a windshield and take a forage from hands.
5. Adult fishes are enough to be fed once a day, the younger generation needs to eat twice a day. Begin to feed the whitebaits who only were born with a water flea, a Cyclops, artemiy, passing to larger forages in process of their growth – begin transition from the cut-off trubochnik and a small crank. Not to catch intestines infection, a trubochnik it is better to refrain from feeding on achievement of an astronotus of age of four months.
6. The volume of food has to be such that in five-seven minutes of a small fish all ate. Also do not forget to arrange to adult astronotusa of times a week fasting day.