CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Do you need soil to raise loaches at home? How to raise loaches at home?

1. Does raising loach at home require soil? How to raise loach at home?

1. Loaches do not need soil to be raised at home.

2. During the breeding process, you can feed vegetable leaves, water plants, rice, bran, bean cakes, vegetable cakes, silkworms, animal waste, silkworm pupa powder, fish meal and other animal baits. If conditions permit, it is best to make mixed baits and stir them into blocks for feeding. When breeding adult loaches, it is not advisable to feed too much animal bait, because loaches are not easy to digest if they eat too much. Feed twice a day, at 6-7 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. The daily feeding amount is 7-8% of the loach's body weight. It can be increased or decreased according to the loach's eating situation. The maximum feeding amount can reach 15% of the fish's body weight. Stir the lower layer of mud once every 10 days to facilitate the growth of loach's natural bait. Remove the residual bait every day, and observe the loach's eating and activity frequently. If you find that the loach has frequent intestinal breathing, sudden stop eating and other abnormal phenomena, you should change the water immediately. Change the water once every 10 days. If sick or dead loaches are found, they must be removed in time to prevent the spread of fish diseases.

2. How long can loach survive without water?

As long as the environment is humid for two or three days.

Loaches live in the bottom mud or the bottom mud of the water, and like to hide during the day and come out at night. Long-term exposure to darkness causes their vision to degenerate. However, their tentacles and lateral lines are very sensitive, playing a key role in avoiding enemies and foraging.

In addition to breathing with gills, loaches can also breathe through their intestines, so they have a strong tolerance for low dissolved oxygen. In a water-deficient environment, as long as the soil remains moist, loaches can still survive for a long time. Loaches have a strong adaptability to the environment, so among the more than 100 species of fish in the family Cobitidae, loaches are the most numerous and widely distributed.

Reproduction method:

Loaches generally become sexually mature at the age of 2. Their breeding season is from April to September, with June to July being the peak breeding period. Usually, spawning begins above 19°C, with large spawning at around 24°C, and intense breeding activity. Loaches are fish that spawn multiple times a year, often at night after rain, and sometimes during the day. During the spawning activity, loaches are quite courageous and often come to the surface of the water to chase.

Loach eggs are sticky. After fertilization in the water, they stick to water plants or debris to hatch. Fertilized eggs that fall to the bottom of the water can also hatch young loaches. In addition to individual differences, the number of eggs a female loach can carry is closely related to its body length: a female loach with a body length of 8 cm can carry about 2,000 eggs, a female loach with a body length of 10 cm can carry about 7,000 eggs, and a female loach with a body length of 12 cm can carry about 13,000 eggs.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Loach

Loach can not only breathe with gills and skin, but also has a special intestinal breathing function. The gills are the main respiratory organs. After leaving the water, the secondary respiratory organs assist breathing, so they can leave the water without dying. Reference: Loach is a slender fish, with the same thickness from head to toe. Its whole body is slippery and rich in mucus. There are no large hard scales on the loach, only a layer of almost invisible small scales. There are round fins on its tail. This body shape is very suitable for drilling in the mud bottom of the water. Although loach is a fish, it can still live out of water. Because in addition to having gills like ordinary fish and being able to breathe freely in the water, it also has better respiratory organs-skin and intestines. The front half of the loach's intestines is usually used to digest food, and the back half is used for breathing. Observing the activities of loach in the water can predict weather changes. When you see loach tumbling up and down and jumping out of the water from time to time, it is likely to rain. Loach belongs to the class Pisces and the family Cobitidae. It is a warm-water fish with strong vitality. It likes to live in rice fields and ponds with water all year round. It has a wide range of food habits and strong reproductive capacity. It lives at the bottom of still water and in humus-containing mud, and likes to move around at the bottom. It comes out to forage at night, and its main food is insects, flat snails, and aquatic plants, and it also eats humus. The loach has a thin intestinal wall, a straight intestinal tract, and many blood vessels, so it can breathe. When there is a lack of oxygen in the water, it can breathe with its intestines in addition to its gills. This phenomenon often occurs before sudden climate changes and low-pressure rainstorms. In winter, when the water dries up, it drills into the mud and relies on the humid environment to breathe with its intestines to maintain its life.

Loaches can survive without water.

It has strong adaptability to low-oxygen environment. In addition to gill breathing, it can also breathe through the skin and intestines. When the weather is hot and humus or other materials at the bottom of the pond are rotting, causing severe hypoxia, loaches can also jump out of the water, or rise vertically to the water surface, swallow air directly with their mouths, and breathe with the help of the intestinal wall. When it turns its head and slowly dives, the exhaust gas is discharged from the anus. At this time, loaches in the entire water body rise to the surface of the water to inhale air, one after another, so Western Europeans call it "climate fish". In the cold winter, the water body dries up, and loaches drill into the mud, relying on a small amount of water to prevent their skin from drying out, and rely entirely on intestinal breathing to maintain life. When the water rises the following year, they go out again. Because loaches have a much higher ability to tolerate low dissolved oxygen than ordinary fish, they can survive longer out of water. In a dry bucket, young loaches 4-5 cm in length can survive for 1 hour, while adult loaches 12 cm in length can survive for 6 hours, and they can still move normally when put back into the water.

Loach - Soshenbigou Encyclopedia

As long as the environment is humid for two or three days

3. Can you make money by raising loach? The weather is quite cold here in Liaoning, can I raise loach now? I saw soilless farming on TV, is it effective or is it a scam?

It’s hard to say. Loaches are raised in places with high temperatures. The weather in Liaoning is relatively cold, so they are not adapted to it.