The living habits of small tropical fish (Dantinae and Cylindinae)

This is a large group of fish that live in tropical and subtropical mountain streams and small rivers. Although they are small in size, they are colorful. The body length is less than 100 mm, most of which are 50-70 mm. These fish have a gentle temperament, like flowing water, and have strict requirements on water quality. The water temperature for breeding is 10-28°C. Feed on aquatic insects, and a few species are omnivorous. When raising, the aquarium substrate is required to be gravel, and it is not suitable to plant many aquatic plants. The age of sexual maturity is mostly 1 winter.

The main ornamental fish that have been raised at present include the golden-threaded leopard of the Dan subfamily (distributed in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan), broad-finned leopard (also known as peach blossom fish, seven-color fish, distributed throughout the country), and beautiful low-lined leopard (also known as white fish, Distributed in the Lancang River and Yuanjiang River in Yunnan), the striped barbel of the subfamily Barbelinae (distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan, and Taiwan), the iridescent light-lipped fish (also known as Hualien, fire barbel, gray barbel, Shikaiyi, Shiyang, Hua Loin fish, five-bar dace, burned dace, olive fish, flower fish, flower dace, distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan) and other species.

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