Interesting things about seabass

The hobby of aquarium fish is no longer strange to families and ecotourism areas today.

The colorful hibiscus with its funny head not only makes the aquarium more lively but also brings luck to your career and reputation. So it would not be surprising if the La Han fish were present in the aquariums of many families.

An overview of the species of arhat

The Chinese Hornfish has the English name Flower Horn , belonging to the Ministry: Perciformes (set of Sea bass ), Family: Cichlidae ( Tilapia family ). As one of the tropical ornamental fish species, artisans are bred from red snapper and tilapia. Called the name of the arhat because they own a large hunchback like a fairy, with colorful colors on the sides and symbolize luck and prosperity.

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  1. Origin: First appearance in tanks in Malaysia, after the fish competition in 2001, the movement of raising La Han fish became more popular and spread to Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam. Male,….
  2. Their main food is usually shrimps, snails, juveniles, liver and minced meat, . Sea bass breeds easily and is artificially made in glass pools. Being ornamental fish that is easy to raise, healthy and disease-free, their lifespan is quite high (over 10 years), the size is 25-30 cm.
  3. Classification: The hybrids created have more than 60 species but are raised and favored more than diamond, red, and King Kamfa and King hybrid .

Characteristics of the seabass breed

With a colorful body with different humped heads, this fish is beautiful and funny, they are hunted by a lot of ornamental fish.

Seabass spawning is quite easy but the number of mature fish with beautiful colors and strange poisonous heads is very rare, only a very small number of the species of seabass are born. When growing up, the hibiscus fish can reach 25-30cm in size and inherit the funny beauty of their parents such as beautiful spread tail, elongated fins, big eyes and 2 short bears. Especially the deformed big head makes them not confused with any other fish. This is also the standard for evaluating their value.

Food and living environment

Seabass live in all levels of water, if the fish in the tank need to design tanks with appropriate length: length of about 120cm, volume of about 250L. Since this is a very smart and active species, the tank should have a large space with gravel-bottomed foundation combined with simple decoration to facilitate tank management.

Food sources are extremely diverse, namely:

  1. Fresh food: wild fish, fresh shrimps, carp, net fish, worms only, strewn and bobo, .
  2. Frozen food: frozen shrimp, red worm, beef, looking for cows, small fish such as frozen fillet, basa, yellow snail, frozen pureed feed.
  3. Pellet feed: only for weaning or when there are no other foods.
  4. Other foods: Some other fresh foods can also be used as a food for grouper such as cockroaches, crickets, locusts, ant eggs, insects, lizards, earthworms . These foods There is almost no risk of infection for fish compared to those of aquatic origin.

Common species of seabass

The seabass is bred with more than 60 species, among them there are 4 types that are the most popular and cultured in the aquariums of families, resorts and ecology today:

Diamond sea bass

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Diamond grouper (also known as diamond blessed life) is a hybrid of Chau Kim Cuong male with Green Dragon female. The salient feature of diamond arowana is its impressive, round body, the vertical line of letters from the fish to the point of sharp tail on the blue, full body. They have the words printed on the body along the sides of the body, they are round covered with white beads, the fish head protruding the round bulge forward. The eyes are red, the face is slightly yellow.

Due to inbreeding to remove the head but ignore the defects, the diamond line today is almost degenerate: the majority of the tail is slumped, especially many flatfish, no more than 4 fingers.

Red Thai sea bass

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With the front end bulging quite big with the bright red color, this line of ornamental fish when raised in an aquarium will be extremely prominent. The main color is bright red (the color makes them beautiful and colorful), the body is small, there are many glowing Europeans especially in the tail, the fins on the tail are always spreading to make them more flexible and gentle swimming.

Kingfisher king kamfa

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Kamfa King is the most exotic and expensive variety of the breeds currently bred in Thailand due to some thick, light and spongy individual mutants. The common characteristic of Thai imported fishes like Red and Red Texas monkeys is that it is difficult to breed and grow long time.

Kingfisher king hybrid

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This fish is often crossed between King Kamfa and Diamond drums. The 'king hybrid' lines in Vietnam are hybrid males with KKF, then select individuals with the most characteristics of KKF to cross-breed or cross-breed with their mother. But the rate of malformations is quite high due to blood congestion so they breed with female females.