Mary fish's feeding habits are complex, and they can not refuse a lot of feed. They can be fed with crushed cooked egg yolk, brine shrimp, tubificidae, etc. Usually twice a day to feed, each feeding five minutes to eat is appropriate, because of its relatively small size, feeding too much is not appropriate.
1, environmental problems: Mary fish if the growth in the environment is not good place, often affect its appetite. For example, when the fish first enter the tank, they will stop feeding before they adapt to the new environment, and it usually takes a week to recover. In addition, poor water quality or low water temperature will affect its eating, so we should pay attention to regular water change, water temperature should also maintain a higher temperature.
2. Self-problems: In addition to the impact of the environment, some conditions of the Mary fish itself can also cause it not to eat. Like illness or pregnancy. Sick Mary fish have a poor appetite and are not very active, and different diseases can have other symptoms, such as white spots on the fish, water mildew is white flocculent, and scaling disease can cause scales to stand up. After discovering the disease, they need to change water, heat up, add salt, or soak with drugs for treatment at the first time. In addition, pregnant Mary fish will stop feeding, and the abdomen will become larger, the anus will be prominent, and like to be alone, in this case need to be fished out in time to allow it to breed safely.