Mickey Fish will eat its own raw fish. The newly produced female fish consumes a lot of energy and needs food to supplement their physical strength. They will eat their newly born fish because they are too hungry. Moreover, the newborn fish are small in size and have almost no defense ability, so they can't escape in the face of fierce attack from their parents. Mickey fish eating small fish will reduce their reproductive success rate. When raising in the family, certain measures should be taken to separate the parent fish from the newly born small fish, so as to avoid the parent fish preying on the small fish.
2. How to prevent newborn Mickey fish from being eatenNewborn small fish are small in size, and at the same time, the female fish is extremely hungry, so it is easy to be eaten by the female fish. In order to avoid the newborn fish being eaten, the breeder should salvage them from the fish tank in time and put them into the same water quality environment as the original water tank. When the small fish have a certain defense ability, they can be raised together again.
At the same time, after the mother fish gives birth to small fish, it is necessary to feed high-protein food in time, so as to reduce the probability of small fish being eaten. After putting the mother fish and the small fish with defensive ability in a fish tank, aquatic plants should also be put in the fish tank to provide a hiding place for the small fish.