Physical characteristics of kissing fish

Shape characteristics of crossfish
Crossfish

Many people who don’t understand crossfish will think that Kissing fish is a sign of intimacy, and many couples treat them as gifts. It turns out that the kissing behavior of the kissing fish is an act of usurping land. The crossfish is oval in shape, with a side tilt, a large head, a large mouth, and large pectoral fins; its body color is milky white and slightly reddish, and its lips and eye membranes are red. There are also some crossbow fish that are silver-gray or blue-green, and there are also a small number of crossbow fish that are white.

The body length of crossfish is generally 2 to 3 centimeters. Under natural conditions, the body length of crossfish can reach about 30 cm. The body is oblong. The head is big, the mouth is big, especially the lips are thick and big, and have fine serrations. The eyes are large with yellow circles. The dorsal fin and anal fin are particularly long, extending from the back of the gill cover to the caudal peduncle, and the middle of the trailing edge of the caudal fin is slightly concave. The pectoral fins and pelvic fins are fan-shaped, and the caudal fin is normal. The color of the body is mainly fleshy white, and the shape is as beautiful as a duck egg.

Kissing fish, a milky white fish with a side-flattened oval body with a metallic luster, move freely through the aquarium very lively, and sometimes use their light flesh-colored mouths to eat aquatic plants and aquariums. Algae and moss on walls and decorations. Sometimes they stand with their heads down and are intent on "working", sometimes they take a break from the busy work and swim quickly to the water surface, using their special respiratory organs and other special assisting respiratory organs to breathe the air on the water through their large mouths. Even so, the kissing fish It is so tiring, but it is still not a good "aquarium scavenger", because although they like to eat algae, it is not their staple food. Crossing fish eat a lot of food and can hand over all the bait, but there is no need to eat algae. However, due to its natural endowment and the large amount of physical energy it consumes due to its active habits, as it grows and develops, its infiltration will also decrease significantly, almost more than the dirt it "removes"!

When two kissing fishes meet, they will invariably stretch out their long, jagged lips and touch each other vigorously, just like lovers "kissing" each other, and there will be no kiss for a long time. Li Qi. However, this kind of "passionate kiss" is not a "courtship", but a fight. Because kissing fish have the habit of defending their "territory", when the two meet, they fight with their long lips to resolve "territory" disputes. The "kissing" is not terminated until one party shrinks and gives in.


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