Стеклянный окунь – аквариумная рыбка.He is very unusual and stands out among the other inhabitants of the transparency of his body. The integumentary tissue of this fish allows you to see the insides and bones. That is why it was called "glass perch". Indeed, through the little body you can see everything, like through glass. It is not at all difficult to care for a perch in an aquarium; it is rather peaceful with respect to its neighbors and relatively hardy. In order for the fish to feel comfortable, you need to know some rules for caring for it.
Transparent fish - glass perch
As mentioned earlier, the main featureglass perch is its transparency. The fish is flattened laterally and high, with a diamond-shaped body. This feature is especially well manifested in fry; with age, unusual perch change.
Males and females differ in color.The first in adulthood become orange with a golden shade of color, females at the same age are silvery with a steel shade. When the male perch is ready to spawn, it appears at the edges of the dorsal and anal fins a bluish rim, and also specks appear on the elongated swim bladder. In females, the swim bladder is round; in general, they look less interesting than males.
Glass Grouper: Lifestyle
Transparent fish from South Asiait dwells both in fresh and brackish water in its native land, feels more comfortable in bodies of water with stagnant water. In nature, perch live in flocks, do not like loneliness.
Glass perch is also known in our area.The aquarium fish, as already mentioned, does not like loneliness. Gather a flock of 10-12 perch, together they will feel good and calm. Young people swim fast along the whole company in the aquarium, while adults search for places to continue the race. Having defined the place for spawning, the male begins to show his right to housing to competitors. If a stranger encroaches on occupied territory, then the result of such arrogance will be a fight. As a rule, in such battles goes without victims. The volume of the aquarium should not be less than 50 liters, otherwise the fish may have health problems.
With glassfish perch neighborspractically does not quarrel, so the issue of sharing is easily solved. Excellent neighbors can be carpet eleotrises, gobies, bees, catfish, rasbory ... Provided that the water is salty, you can safely add guppies and mollies to the perch. When you pick up neighbors for the transparent handsome, stick to one rule: do not share with them too active and aggressive fish.
Conditions of detention
When the aquarium content glass perch,if the neighbors do not need it, it is not at all necessary to add some salt water. The reaction can range from weakly to weakly alkaline. The temperature of the water in the aquarium is recommended to be maintained at 26 degrees. It is necessary to change a third of all water every seven days, aeration and filtration are required.
If you want the fish to feel likeat home, create a natural atmosphere for them in the aquarium. For this special effort is not required, the very first thing - make a dark substrate of small gravel or large river sand. Then you need to plant thick algae, also put floating greens in a glass house for fish, now add snags and stones. That's it, the natural atmosphere for glass perches is reproduced!
How and how to feed?
To perch glass well developed, itsneed to feed properly. In their natural environment, fish feed on larvae, crustaceans, insects, and worms. In an aquarium, the ration of transparent aquatic inhabitants consists of daphnia, cortex, tubule and small fodder moth. It should be noted that perch dry food is not very loved and consumed reluctantly.
Reproduction
At the age of six months the glass perch is ready forreproduction. The males at this time begin to divide the territory, to choose a place for spawning. The entrance to the occupied territory is forbidden to alien males; for females, on the contrary, the “door” is always open. “Boys” actively invite “girls” to their homes. The mating season lasts four days; during this time, a couple of perk in love spawns several times.
The female glass perch immediately lays six eggs, the male immediately fertilizes them. During one spawning, the female can lay about three hundred eggs. The incubation period lasts 25-30 hours.
Fish larvae already after the second dayswim, at this time they need to start feeding. The diet of the larvae is living dust and rotifers. When the babies grow up, about fourteen days later, they begin to eat with appetite the Cyclops nauplii. You need to carefully care for the small fish and regularly feed them, then they will grow up healthy and well developed.
