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Beautiful two-color strawberry fish, anyone know?

2022-01-01 / 433 Read

Bi-color strawberry fish, Pseudo damselfish, also known as false purple paradise. Most are found from Taiping to coral reefs in the eastern Indian Ocean.

The English name is Bicolor Pseudochromis. The scientific name is Pseudochromis paccagnella.

Body type: The body length is generally 4-5cm, and the eyes are blue, close to the front of the body. The caudal fin is yellow, and the other fins are transparent and colorless. The front half of the fish is purple, and the back half is bright yellow. The contrast between purple and yellow is very eye-catching.

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Characteristics: The juveniles of the bicolor strawberry fish are very bright in appearance. The shape of the imitation hammer is colorful and the body color is colorful. They look like the damselfish fish in appearance, but the difference is that the male and female fish of this family are obviously different, mainly in the body color. Other than that, the rest are basically similar.

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Raising conditions: Generally, the water temperature for artificial breeding is 27-28 degrees Celsius. The salinity should be kept between 1.020-1.025 and the pH should be kept between 8.1-8.4.

The two-color strawberry fish have a certain aggressiveness and are not afraid of other fish. Even fish 2-3 times larger than their body will be very brave to protect their territory and will eat some Ornamental shrimp and nasty steel caterpillars are carnivorous. Generally, the bait for feeding includes brine shrimp, fish and insects, seawater fish pellet feed, etc., which can be mixed with invertebrates such as live corals, but it is recommended not to be too large, so that the The aquarium looks too eye-catching and loses its natural flavor.