My Fighter fish nest

In few months, my female fighter’s body was bigger than the male fighter. In fighter fish male and female differentiation can be done very easily.. Male will have large tail and two large lengthy spikes like fin below its head, males body size will be smaller than its tail size, males are more aggressive than female fighters they have a very special feature, they will put out their gills when they are fighting or when they want to attract the females.Female fighter fish will have a bigger body size than their tail. Its spike like fin below its head will be smaller. I kept male and female fighters together in a dark tub. After few days male fighters started building its nest by putting bubble layer on the water surface. The bubbles were in pale golden and light brownish color. Male lost some of its pieces of its tail to the female fighter and female lost few of its shells. I was surprised to see both the terrors finally get along with each other : ) One point of time both of them clubbed together with their mouth. It’s their mating style. My female fighter color had become bit dull. In few days the nesting of my male fighter has become thicker and its base has increased. I was so eagerly waiting for the eggs to be placed on the nest. So I was keeping my eyes always on the nest….

Fighter fish

Fighter fish is one of my favorite fish. At my school days, my friends are crazy about fighters ; ) . For them its value depends on the color and tail. They will also trade fighters among the friends circle. I have seen some 50 adult fighters at one of my friends house. He is mad with fighters. Like every fish they also have lots of specialties. Their fighting skills is the highlight of fighters. Some fighting’s will lead to fatal end. I bought 2 young fighters, in one platform shop near my home. The male is a green fellow and the female was in green color. I kept the male and females with gold fishes for few months. Once male started attacking female I separated it from female. I still remember I used to feed spiders to fighters : ) The spiders which are at my home are very small spiders. Their legs will be very thin and its body will be in size of this “O” letter. If leave any spider, my male fighter will grasp the full body of the spider and leave the legs. They themselves hunt mosquitoes which sit near the tank glass. They are very quick in catching them. My male fighter’s color was amazing when it has grown up. it had multiple color green, blue and pink … when it swims it looks magnificent… That to the grownup fighters tails will be in great shape. While they swim it will amazing to see their tail movement.

scat fish

Scats are magnificent fish with cool green color with black dots over the body. Scats have many close resemblances of butterfly fishes. I Saw the Scat fish for the first time in my school library. I was stunned by its appearance and its movement. Its swimming style will be cool to watch. Scats have spines at its top fin. If they get threatened they will raise its top fin with the spine. They will look cute and some times alarming when they raise their spines. They use their spines for defending them self by stinging. Their stinging will create pain for some time. This quality is even seen in the young scats. They have a property to change their color. It depends on the water,temperature,the aquarium setup. They will become pale brown or half dark according to the change in surrounding. I am a biggest fan of scats. Only drawback of scats is, they are more aggressive and they cannot be put up with other soft characteristic fishes. I tried to putting the young ones with gold fish. But even young fellows started attacking gold fish : ( They attack the fins first and damage the gold fish fins. I wonder how the young scats have such guts to attack bigger gold fish. Imagine button a sized scats attacking a billiard ball sized gold fish : ) Young scats will have hard covering on its body, the hard part covering will slowly goes off once the gets the grown up stage. Even butterfly fishes have the same property. Scats are very active fishes. Keeping a community of scats will be an awesome setup in the aquarium…

flower horn fish

One of the basic thing which we need to take care, While keeping an aquarium is the group of fishes, we keep should be of same qualities. We cannot keep aggressive fishes with the soft characteristic fishes. Some times very rarely aggressive fishes go along peacefully with the soft characteristic fishes. It happened for me once. I kept flower horn fish with Fan tail gold and angle : ) At that time I don’t know about flower horn fishes. I bought a small pair of flower horn fish and left in my tank. I used to feed only pellets and rarely worms. My tank was not so big at that time. It was arround 12 yrs back, I had only a small tank. I think flower horn was not so aggressive, as it was grown from its young age with the other buddies. One of the flower horn died in few months :‘( But the other one was with me for more than one year : ) I was surprised how it was so calm in my tank. its hump started coming into good shape. Its green dots were the highlight of it. I used to keep my tank in the sun light area. Its green dots will glow like neon lamps : ) His size will be my size of my hand… OMG I still remember its color and its fearsome look… Though he was grown up he did not show his aggressive nature in harming other fishes. He used to swim faster only when I feed the pellets. He will eat a lot .. he used to open his mouth very wide for the gulp. In one gulp most of the pellets will go in : ) After the feeding time, He will calm down in piece … he is such a sweet heart. I did a mistake by not covering my tank. my brave fellow jumped out of my tank when I was not at home.. I miss him a lot…………. :’(

Cute fish

I had a pair of small puffer fish. I accidently bought with the team of scat fish. both fish had same color. I bought 3 pairs of scats and when I came home I saw one of the pair is the cute puffer : ) The young puffer fish color is shiny green with black dots. It can change its colors, some times it will be greenish and some times it will be pale yellow color. Normally at morning time it will be greenish in color. There size can be compare with gems collate size. They are so cute while they are swimming its head will be bigger and its tail will be very small. It swimming style will be also cool. It swims as though, it swims in a slow motion. It takes lot of brakes during swimming. It will be magnificent to see him swimming while it’s inflated. It has a cute distinction of its lips from its body. It eyes will be very cute and it can rotate its eyes in different direction independently. The best feature of puffer fish is it will change its body shape into round ball when it get fears. It will engulf water and increase its elastic body into ball shape. The ball shape will be bigger than its actual size of its body. It will blow itself to frighten other fishes. The puffer fish which I kept does not had spikes in its body. Puffer with spikes will be deadly in looks when it changes its shape. Puffer fish is a bit aggressive fish. it will attack other soft fishes. When I kept puffer with me, I don’t that it’s very toxic. : ) Luckily nothing happened to my other fishes or to me… Puffer is the strangest fish of my aquarium history.

Lion fish

Lion fish, the fish with a amazing appearance. Its fins and its color is the special feature of the lion fish. I am a fan of lion fish. Though its venomous its characteristics does not seems to be aggressive in its movements. Its very rate to sight lion fishes near my area. They are very sensitive fish and keeping it in aquarium is a hard task. Tank should be maintained with care. Lion fishes mostly prefer live feeds than the processed foods. I had a chance to closely, observe the characteristics of young lion fish at my office aquarium. It was a cute little lion fish. its size is smaller than a pointing finger. It’s a red lion fish. its fins are cute and bright. It swims very slowly with a glamorous appearance… daily I will spend some time with the little fellow. Lion fish will raise its fins if it get fear. Bigger lion fish will be fearsome when it raises its fins. We must carefully handle it, if we keep a lion fish at home. Its spines are poisonous. Though the effect will not be fatal but it causes severe pain. I tried feeding it with the fish pellets. But the little one will rarely have it. I rarely see him attacking other fishes. It will swim all around the tank. It was there for only 2 months, I felt very bad when it could not make out. I miss my little lion now :’(

Carps & White sharks.

My friend took me to a fish farm, which is near his home. I was amazed to see the fish farm for the first time in my life. it had lots of long cement tanks with lots of fishes in it. The water in the tub is full of green planktons. I was stunned to see some fishes in mammoth size… I was stunned to see fully grown carps. I cant even compare my carps with them. Each carps where coming nearly to my size of my hand … That too their colors are amazing and very attractive. Their colors were shining in sunlight which added more beauty to that area. Mostly all the carps will be coming up for oxygen & food , I used to touch them when they are at the top of the tank.. they will open their mouth widely. When I was touching the carps my finger went inside one of the carps mouths : ) I was afraid that it will bite with its teeth. But lucky it left my finger. I could not even sense its teeth. There are many colored carps were there in that I love red and white combination color carps. I saw some fresh water tiger sharks too they were equal in size of carps. I saw both black and white colored sharks. They are very calm fishes I never seen them attacking other fishes. Some time carps can even attack the small fishes but fresh water sharks will not. I love their qualities. I saw some big size angle, Gold and mollies fishes which was kept for breeding. I saw the young gold fish and angel fishes which got hatched out from the eggs. They are so tiny that we can see only dots of red , white and black : ) They are soo cute.