Mandarin fish (Synchiropus splendidus) is a small brightly colored fish belonging to the family of dragonet, a well-known in the business of sea water aquarium.
Mandarin fish from the Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia.
Mandarin fish from the Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia.
characteristics
Mandarin fish has a long body and two dorsal fins. Mandarin fish have stripes of green, orange, and yellow, with a blue blanket over his body. Mandarin fish used to eat small crustaceans and other invertebrates.
His life is like playing 'hide-and-seek' in the arrangement of coral reefs full of loopholes, busy looking for food while avoiding large fish predators. Fish that became an icon of international tourism is winded body ranging from 8 to 15 centimeters and usually out of the reef to look for food only in the morning and evening.
The style and the color is so unique and enchanting, batik-like pattern with the primary colors, while some other types of light green with polka-dot motif. There is also a combination of white chocolate, so subtle if 'run' in between the rocks. Bali Sea fish species have this with the best color harmony of the world, apart from a bright batik, in the neck to the bottom of his gradations of light blue to light green. Around the fins are also decorated with sky blue color that is not owned by the Mandarin fish in other waters.
maintenance
Pisciculture is arguably difficult to maintain in the aquarium. Because this fish is difficult to adapt to new environments, sensitive to changes in water and hard to provide meals because he did not like the artificial feed such as pellets of fish, dried worms and small shrimp processing plant.
However, there are several ways that can be applied to the successful maintenance of this mandarin fish, among which, make the aquarium conditions are similar to the habitat that is providing live coral (living rock) that many as a medium where the fish are feeding. Also do not mix with mandarin fish are aggressive fish in an aquarium, it will make the fish stress, calm the condition of these fish will be the longer the Mandarin fish can be maintained.
Pisciculture is arguably difficult to maintain in the aquarium. Because this fish is difficult to adapt to new environments, sensitive to changes in water and hard to provide meals because he did not like the artificial feed such as pellets of fish, dried worms and small shrimp processing plant.
However, there are several ways that can be applied to the successful maintenance of this mandarin fish, among which, make the aquarium conditions are similar to the habitat that is providing live coral (living rock) that many as a medium where the fish are feeding. Also do not mix with mandarin fish are aggressive fish in an aquarium, it will make the fish stress, calm the condition of these fish will be the longer the Mandarin fish can be maintained.