Seahorse And Your Aquarium
Can you keep seahorses in the same aquarium as your fish?
What's their natural habitat?
How do you take care of seahorses?
Seahorses posess a beauty that is both mythical and bewitching. These qualities draw many fans but maintaining a high quality of life for the seahorses can be exceptionally high maintaince. Seahorses are sparsely strewn about the vast ocean. This must be taken into consideration when shopping for one for you salt water tank. There should be no more than two seahorses in a 100 liter tank. Seahorses are territorial and any more than this amounmt could spur competition and the feeling that their homes are being invaded.
You really need to learn all the ins and outs of owning a seahorse before owning one. They require quite a bit of different kinds of live food. They'll need you to buy them brine shrimp, ghost shrimp, mysiad shrimp, and enriched Artemia. Some of these products are difficult to find, if you don't know where to look. Each of these different types of fish may be available in frozen form from a seafood dealer. You can ask your local aquatic expert for more information about dealers in your area.
Seahorses not only require a lot of different types of seafood, they require it often. You'll have to feed them these different types of shrimps at least twice a day. When shopping for a seahorse remember, same sex pairs are acceptable, but placing a female and a male in the same tank allows for less competitive nature and procreation. Seahorses primarly inhabit tropical reef regions so placing them in a reef like environment is best to ensure maximum quality of life .
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Aquarium Frogs
Aquarium Frogs
Aquarium frogs need good homes - how do you set up the right aquarium that's best for your particular frog?
The home you chose for your frog is the most important decision you will make while owning your little friend. It should be a place where they will enjoy living in, which means something close or resembling their natural habitat. You need to find that a tank that will provide your frog with the best living standards.
What kind of housing should you provide for your your frog?
There exist many different types of frog. You need to know what kind of environment you frog would usually live in to design it's habitat
appropriately. Dry land frogs need a dry tank. Water frogs need an aquatic set-up. Tree frogs need high limbs and branches to climb on. Then again, some frogs need both aquatic and dry land aspects to their tanks.
The normal sized frog can live comfortably in a twenty gallon tank. For bigger frogs you will need a bigger tank. For more than one frog, you will need a much bigger tank. The should also provide ample light. A fluorescent lighting is suggested for almost all frogs.
For aquatic frogs you may want to consider heating the water. Almost all water frogs prefer a warm, humid environment. For land frogs you can keep the conditions at room temperature. For the most part, these frogs will live comfortably in the temperature you choose to live in.
When considering a flooring for your frog's tank, stay away from pebbles or wood shavings. The frog will eat the smaller pieces of these floorings. Pine chips will suffice however, potting soil or sand will allow to plant small trees and other plants that your frog will likely enjoy. Moss will keep the tank damp, something that even the land frogs will enjoy. The last thing to consider it providing a hiding place for your frog. In a captive setting the frog will want a place to itself, where it cannot be seen. A good haven for a frog is a hollow log. Any type of wood will do. As long as the frog can fit inside of it it will do just fine and your frog will much happier
Aquarium frogs need good homes - how do you set up the right aquarium that's best for your particular frog?
The home you chose for your frog is the most important decision you will make while owning your little friend. It should be a place where they will enjoy living in, which means something close or resembling their natural habitat. You need to find that a tank that will provide your frog with the best living standards.
What kind of housing should you provide for your your frog?
There exist many different types of frog. You need to know what kind of environment you frog would usually live in to design it's habitat
appropriately. Dry land frogs need a dry tank. Water frogs need an aquatic set-up. Tree frogs need high limbs and branches to climb on. Then again, some frogs need both aquatic and dry land aspects to their tanks.
The normal sized frog can live comfortably in a twenty gallon tank. For bigger frogs you will need a bigger tank. For more than one frog, you will need a much bigger tank. The should also provide ample light. A fluorescent lighting is suggested for almost all frogs.
For aquatic frogs you may want to consider heating the water. Almost all water frogs prefer a warm, humid environment. For land frogs you can keep the conditions at room temperature. For the most part, these frogs will live comfortably in the temperature you choose to live in.
When considering a flooring for your frog's tank, stay away from pebbles or wood shavings. The frog will eat the smaller pieces of these floorings. Pine chips will suffice however, potting soil or sand will allow to plant small trees and other plants that your frog will likely enjoy. Moss will keep the tank damp, something that even the land frogs will enjoy. The last thing to consider it providing a hiding place for your frog. In a captive setting the frog will want a place to itself, where it cannot be seen. A good haven for a frog is a hollow log. Any type of wood will do. As long as the frog can fit inside of it it will do just fine and your frog will much happier
Sunday, March 1, 2009
How To Breed Livebearing Tropical Fishes
How To Breed Livebearing Tropical Fishes
Livebearing freshwater tropical fishes like Guppies, Swordtails, Platies and Mollies breed by giving birth to live, fully formed, and free-swimming young. Livebearing tropical fishes as so called because they do not lay eggs. They give birth to live, fully formed, and free-swimming fry. Examples of livebearers are the Guppies, Swordtails, Platies, and Mollies.
The eggs of livebearers are fertilized and develop inside the body of the female, making the count of offspring relatively low – up to 50 per spawning. However, livebearing females have a unique capability to store sperm, which allows them to develop several successive broods from just one mating session.
The male has a gonopodium, a sex organ derived from several rays of the anal fin. When mating, the male directs its gonopodium towards the female and while briefly attached to the partner's cloaca, the gonopodium releases and channels sperms into the female. Once fertilized, female livebearers will nonchalantly give birth to their fry even in a community aquarium, with successive broods born as often as monthly. Unfortunately, the fry, being very small, become easy prey for other fishes, including their "parents". Fine-leaved plants offer good hiding places for the newly born, but not very many will survive to adulthood in a well-populated fish community. Which is why a specialized breeding tank is recommended for livebearing species.
Transfer the female, when she's about ready to drop her young, to a breeding aquarium rigged with breeding traps (plastic ones are commercially available) that will separate and safeguard the young. You can use layers of fine-leaved plants or patches of Java Moss where the offspring can hide. After the female delivers her brood, return her to the community
Livebearing freshwater tropical fishes like Guppies, Swordtails, Platies and Mollies breed by giving birth to live, fully formed, and free-swimming young. Livebearing tropical fishes as so called because they do not lay eggs. They give birth to live, fully formed, and free-swimming fry. Examples of livebearers are the Guppies, Swordtails, Platies, and Mollies.
The eggs of livebearers are fertilized and develop inside the body of the female, making the count of offspring relatively low – up to 50 per spawning. However, livebearing females have a unique capability to store sperm, which allows them to develop several successive broods from just one mating session.
The male has a gonopodium, a sex organ derived from several rays of the anal fin. When mating, the male directs its gonopodium towards the female and while briefly attached to the partner's cloaca, the gonopodium releases and channels sperms into the female. Once fertilized, female livebearers will nonchalantly give birth to their fry even in a community aquarium, with successive broods born as often as monthly. Unfortunately, the fry, being very small, become easy prey for other fishes, including their "parents". Fine-leaved plants offer good hiding places for the newly born, but not very many will survive to adulthood in a well-populated fish community. Which is why a specialized breeding tank is recommended for livebearing species.
Transfer the female, when she's about ready to drop her young, to a breeding aquarium rigged with breeding traps (plastic ones are commercially available) that will separate and safeguard the young. You can use layers of fine-leaved plants or patches of Java Moss where the offspring can hide. After the female delivers her brood, return her to the community
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