Peaceful, unpretentious in leaving, easily getting on with any nonaggressive species of fish, koridorasa somik often become inhabitants of aquariums of the beginning aquarians and please the owners for many years (average life expectancy of this look at appropriate care makes 6-10 years).
Preparation of a fish lodge
To provide to the little pets comfortable existence, the aquarium from fifty liters will approach. Special attention at the aquarium equipment before the settlement of koridoras needs to be paid to arrangement of a bottom. As in the habitat of a somika prefer to lodge in silt, it needs to be filled up medium-sized (no more than 3 mm) with sand.
There have to be shelters – small decorative caves, the sunk ships or locks for this purpose will approach, but it is possible to manage also the peshcherka put manually from roundish not sharp stones or usual snags. Besides, such stones need to be spread out on an aquarium bottom as somik very much like to have a rest, lying on pebble. The aquarium can be set with plants more densely, without having forgotten to leave at the same time open several platforms at the bottom – it there will be a dining room for small fishes.
Small fishes can live only in flocks not less than five-six individuals, at the same time has to fall on each female on two-three males. It is connected with features of their reproduction. Each female for once postpones only 5-6 berries, care of which comes to an end after gluing of berries to an aquarium wall on the cleaned site plentifully greased with moloky. But such layings she is capable to make to six for spawning, and every time with a new male prefers to copulate. Water has to be soft, with neutral PH, without the content of salts. Range 22-28os though in need of a somika can transfer short-term temperature drops from 3 to 30 wasps will be optimum temperature. These ground small fishes love continuous aeration and weekly shift of water to 20-30% of total amount. As except branchiate, somik have also an intestinal breath, it is necessary to think over free access of small fishes to a water surface where they will rise from time to time.
Feeding
If except koridoras the contents in an aquarium of other small fishes eating on a surface is planned it is necessary to watch that a part of a forage fell by a bottom constantly. Otherwise somik can die from hunger. It is possible to feed them both with house preparations, and the ready-made feeds which are on sale in shop. To diversify a diet, the dry feed needs to be alternated to live or frozen. With pleasure of a somika eat also vegetable forages. Independently prepared live or vegetable forage needs to be washed out carefully not to bring in an aquarium of parasites.