The homeland of this one of the most popular and original representatives of tropical fishes is Amazon. A skalyariya body almost roundish, reminding a half moon. Ptelofirrum a scalar also call a small fish sheet, a butterfly, a swallow, or a half moon. How to grow up skalyariya in aquariums?
Instruction
1. Begin to feed whitebaits of skalyariya plentifully with a live forage as soon as they were born also became to float. It occurs for the seventh day since the beginning of spawning. Within the first two days give infusorians, then you pass on nematodes or "dust". After 10-12 days begin to feed whitebaits with water fleas and the smallest Cyclops.
2. Skalyariya treat those species of fish which actively protect the posterity. Cases of eating of whitebaits by parents in case of danger are known. Therefore if you need to transplant from an aquarium of one of parents, then do it very carefully, having separated it previously glass that the trouble caused to left was much less, and the probability of preservation of posterity is more.
3. You feed the grown-up skalyariya only with a live forage (a crank, a water flea, a trubochnik, a Cyclops, a koretra), offering on 15 average cranks on one small fish twice a day. The shape of a body of a small fish causes it considerable inconveniences for collecting of a forage from an aquarium bottom. Therefore skalyariya prefer to catch a live forage during its falling. Being very hungry, bending, select a forage from an aquarium bottom.
4. For cultivation of skalyariya use an aquarium volume from four buckets of water on couple of small fishes. For two couples also six buckets will be enough. To create to small fishes the most favorable conditions, take care of that the aquarium was rather deep (up to 45-60 cm). Not too plant it with plants not to complicate movements of small fishes.
5. You keep an aquarium with skalyariya clean, regularly substituting the dimmed and deteriorated water for the third part fresh. Maintain water temperature in range from 23 to 25 degrees. It is known that these fishes not bad contain also in aquariums at a smaller temperature (19-20 degrees) and transfer gradual decrease it to 15 degrees though at the same time become not active and inactive.