How to Keep Lazy Fish? A Detailed Guide to Raising Them

The lazy fish is an ornamental fish bred by crossbreeding several kinds of fish, so how do you keep a lazy fish?

1. Feeding methods for lazy fish

Choose healthy, disease-free lazy fish fry for breeding, prepare a fish tank of suitable size, fill the tank with water, and then put in the fry. During this period, you can use fish feed, algae, bloodworms and so on for feeding. Lazy fish have no strict requirements for water temperature, water quality and so on, and are relatively easy to keep as ornamental fish.

Lazy fish can be kept in ordinary tap water. When changing the water, just add a little salt to remove excess chlorine from the water.

2. What kinds of ornamental fish are there?

1. Goldfish

The domestication of goldfish went through two stages, pond culture and basin culture. After careful selection by folk artisans over many generations, they gradually developed from the original single-tail red crucian carp into double-tail, triple-tail and quadruple-tail goldfish.

Their colors also gradually developed from a single red into red-and-white variegated, calico, black, blue, purple and so on. Their body shape also developed from a long, narrow spindle shape into oval, pearl-scale and so on. The varieties also developed from the single red crucian carp into today's rich and colorful dozens of varieties, such as dragon-eye, celestial-eye, bubble-eye, lion-head, tiger-head, pom-pom, pearl-scale, red-cap oranda and so on.

2. Marine fish

Marine ornamental fish mainly come from the coral reef waters of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. There are many varieties with strange body shapes, rich and highly varied surface colors, and a good ability to hide, possessing a kind of primitive, simple and mysterious natural beauty.

Common producing areas include the Philippines, Taiwan, China and the South China Sea, Japan, Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, India, the Red Sea, the east coast of Africa and so on. Tropical marine ornamental fish are extremely widely distributed. They live in the vast and boundless ocean. Many sea areas are rarely visited by people, and there are still many varieties not yet discovered by humans. Tropical marine ornamental fish are the ornamental fish with the greatest development potential and prospects in the world, and they represent the future development direction of ornamental fish.