If you belong to those people who really love their fish and would like to have a lot of them, how about buying a labyrinth aquarium? The abovementioned aquarium is not only a big one but it boasts silk plants, doughnut shaped lights, filters, a couple of air pumps and it even comes with cleaning equipment.
So once you are thinking about buying an aquarium, you must be either a fish-lover or just want these cute creatures to become an integral part of your life. Most people think, that buying fish means to get really beautiful pets and these pets don’t need any care or love. And they are definitely wrong.
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So my dear readers, let me introduse the next evidence of nature’s morbid imagination…
Axolotl. Mmm…it has so strange physical apperiance that it seems he was created in a lounge time with a glass of absinth..) I’ll prove that. Do u know that Axolotl has so amazing regenerative abilities, that if injured, even to the point of losing a body part, the Axolotl will heal readily and even regenerate lost bits! Anyway, I’d like it to have in my own aquarium)
Just enjoy it’s photos.
The axolotl is a type of salamander, native to Mexico.
My dears, if you intend to have Axolotl as a pet – remember, that Juvenile axolotls can be cannibalistic towards each other, so they are best raised in separate enclosures!!!
Adults can potentially be housed together but watch for cannibalistic tendencies.
In the wild, axolotls feed on snails, worms, crustaceans, small fish, and small amphibians. In captivity, they can be fed brine shrimp, small strips of beef or liver, earthworms (wild caught worms can carry parasites), bloodworms, tubifex worms, or commercial fish pellets (e.g. salmon or trout pellets).
Well, for those who adore unusial pets in home aquarium – Axolotl is definitely best choice you may do. First place.
Starfish is not actually a fish at all! There are several types of shapes of this nature’s creation: like Sugar starfish, white starfish, Crown of thorns, sunflower star, Bahamian etc. Actually, there are nearly 2000 kinds of sea stars!
We use to think that starfish has its five legs, but some of them have more, which radiate from an indistinct disk, like sunflower fish.
There are about 1,800 known living species of them, and they occur in all of the Earth’s oceans. People often buy starfishes for home aquarium.
(The common starfish is normally 10-30cm )
Starfish can change its color, can do a lot of fun things with ther legs, but! – they don’t have ears and nose…
Most of its life, starfish moves slowly across the ocean floor.
The next shocked fact: If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish!
The next amazing fact:
Starfish are almost unique in the fact that, unlike most other animals, they do not have blood but instead use sea water to pump around their bodies!
And what surprised me more then other facts that, because of this ability to digest food outside of its body, the sea star is able to hunt prey that are much larger than its mouth.
Really, curious, bright monster. )
First of all, fishes are amazing animals, they can vary in size and shape, have different coloring, scales and behavior. A lot of words were told about them, different people treat fishes in different ways: some buy them and make aquariums, some eat them, some capture them and go fishing, some create special aqua parks in order to prevent their dying.
When I was asked to give the definition of a word “fish”, I even didn’t know what to answer and then after a couple of minutes, I gave such an interpretation. A fish is an animal with scales and fins, they live in water, have no lungs, they breathe with a help gills. But such a definition is not correct from the scientific point of view - because, for example, eels - have no fins. There are a lot of species of fish and a lot of classes of fishes. I like exotic fishes very much. They are very beautiful and even can smile.
“Fish” theme is a commonly-used theme. Let’s remember mermaids - girls half-fishes or the “great fish”, that swallowed up Prophet Jonah. The were Saint people that were able to take fish-like appearance: Ika-Roa, Matsya. There is an astrological sign - called Pisces and in the sky we can see a constellation with this title. A lot of cartoons made fishes their main heroes: Finding Nemo, The Mermaid, Shark Tale.
Have you ever heard something about deep sea fishes? They are very interesting creatures, while looking at them, you can think that they are not from this planet. Actually, it is truth (to some extent). Such fishes swim below the photic zone of the ocean, sometimes there is no natural illumination there, so in order to see the prey and to be able to survive in these severe conditions, these fishes got very strange body and extremely large eyes. Unfortunately, scientist can’t study them thoroughly because these fishes are not able of living in unnatural conditions.
And now tell me, please, how do fishes move? With a help of fins! Yeah? But there are some fishes, they are called “walking fishes” , which can travel over sea floor or land for rather long periods of time. The best representative in this category is a mud-skipper. Such fishes have a special respiratory system that allows them to live without water for a couple of days! Also, there are some fishes, which are still called walking, but their walking is limited to sea floor travelling.
Don’t forget, that Marine is not only a popular name but a first word of Marine Biology, a science that deals with fishes, their preservation. As you know, fishes and water is two inseparable parts - and the total amount of water on the Earth is nearly 1.4 billion km3 and only 3 percent is occupied with fresh (I mean not salt) water. And more than 70 percent of the Planet Earth is in water.
If you don’t have your own aquarium, visit any big aquarium at your city - you won’t be disappointed!
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