This tropical fish from South America is one of the ornamental fish that have long been introduced. Platty varieties such as sunset, Hawaii, red coral, black tail, Samson, and platty forked widely spread in the market of ornamental fish.
Care bear fish is actually very easy because platty have a fairly high tolerance to various conditions or water quality. However, to obtain optimal results, water quality must be maintained.
Variety of platty fish ( Xiphophorus sp. )greatly affect quality, coral red for example, including the quality if the body is rather short and red. While the varieties of Samson called good when his body elongated and stocky.
Generally platty fish can be kept in the pool or open cement tanks with high density. However, that environment is often disturbed pests such as dragonfly larvae, small Argulus lice, and lernaea, thus platty susceptible attack by fish diseases.
Dragonfly-larvae’s attack can cause skin of platty injured, while Argulus lice and lernaea who entered by the feed will be attached to the skin of fish. This condition could be make platty fish quality lower. To prevent the pests attack is by soaking platty fish in salt water, PK or abates solution.
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