The homeland of this one of the most popular and original representatives of tropical fish is the Amazon. The body of the scalar is almost rounded, resembling a crescent. Ptelofirrum scalar is also called leaf fish, butterfly, swallow, or crescent. How to grow scalar in aquariums?
Instructions
Step 1
Begin to feed scalar fry abundantly with live food, as soon as they were born and began to swim. This occurs on the seventh day from the start of spawning. For the first two days, give ciliates, then switch to nematodes or "dust". After 10-12 days, start feeding the fry with daphnia and tiny cyclops.
Step 2
The scalars are among those fish species that actively protect their offspring. There are cases of fry eating by parents in case of danger. Therefore, if you need to plant one of the parents from the aquarium, then do it very carefully, separating it with glass beforehand, so that the disturbance caused to the one left behind is much less, and the likelihood of preserving the offspring is greater.
Step 3
Feed the grown scalars only with live food (bloodworms, daphnia, tubifex, cyclops, coretra), offering 15 medium bloodworms per fish twice a day. The shape of the fish's body creates significant inconveniences for it to collect food from the bottom of the aquarium. Therefore, scalars prefer to catch live food during its fall. Being very hungry, stooping down, they pick up food from the bottom of the aquarium.
Step 4
To grow scalars, use an aquarium with a volume of four buckets of water for a couple of fish. For two pairs, six buckets are enough. To create the most favorable conditions for the fish, make sure that the aquarium is deep enough (up to 45-60 cm). Do not over-plant it with plants so as not to impede the movement of the fish.
Step 5
Keep the aquarium with scalars clean, regularly replacing cloudy and spoiled water with a third part of fresh water. Maintain the water temperature between 23 and 25 degrees. It is known that these fish are well kept in aquariums at a lower temperature (19-20 degrees) and tolerate a gradual decrease in temperature to 15 degrees, although at the same time they become non-viable and inactive.
