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Akvarijske ribe - Skiffia francesae - zlata skifia, živorodke
Akvarijske ribe - Skiffia francesae - zlata skifia, živorodke
Akvarijske ribe - Skiffia francesae - zlata skifia, živorodke

 

   Basic data:

 

  • Scientific name:  Skiffia francesae  (Kingston, 1978)

  • Explanation of words: The species name is named after Frances H. Miller.

  • Slovenian name: Zlata skifia

  • Group: Livebirds

  • Source: Mexico , Rio Teuchitlan

  • Size: Up to 4.2 cm, females for cognition larger

  • Biotope / habitat : Rio Te uchitlan

  • Social behavior: Extremely calm species.

  • Diet: Omnivore, predominantly plant food / algae and decaying plants, also takes flakes and insects on the surface

  • Cultivation: Quite easy

  • Aquarium: Minimum 80 liters

  • Population: group per 80 liters of water

  • Decoration: Stones, sand / fine substrate, water lentils, algae and water hyacinth, roots, ...

  • Temperature: 17-26 ° C

  • pH: 6.5-7.9

  • Hardness: from 5 ° dGh to 20 ° dGh

  • Lifespan: up to 5 years

Skiffia  francesae       Golden Scythia

Kingdom: Animalia / animals

Trunk: Chordata / string players

Class: Actinopterygii / arthropods

Order: Cyprinodontiformes / Toothpicks

Family: Goodeidae / live-bearing Mexican carp

Genus: Skiffia

Species: Skiffia francesae  (Kingston, 1978)

Cultivation

  Many sources state that cultivation is quite simple, which is not entirely true. Skifia is sensitive to water pollution and needs to change water really often in captivity of the same quality and temperature as in an aquarium.

The temperature should not be too high by simulating the time of year, in winter it should be below 20º C.

It coexists with related fish and organisms from its natural area. Keep shaded areas in the aquarium. In its original area of life we find the following plants: Eichhornia, Pistia, Ceratophyllum  in Potamogeton. It is a school of fish and we have at least 6 specimens together. The water flow in the aquarium should be mild, we combine dense vegetation and roots, algae are more than recommended.

Food

  It is an omnivore, it urgently needs plant food (algae, spinach, nettles, peas, etc.) 

Reproduction

  Put a group of fish in a special aquarium with lots of floating plants  and fine dark sand.

Quality filter and regular water change (40-60% per week). After courtship (acrobatic swimming), the male fertilizes the female in the typical way of the family, the female carries the brood between six and eight weeks (temperature). There are 5 to 20 young people and they are quite large (around  1 cm). The youth is immediately fine plant and animal food (crushed flakes, ...). Adults generally do not eat juveniles and establishing a healthy population is not difficult

Interesting

  We do not grow different species of Scythians together to avoid hybridization! Golden Scythia is extinct in nature and thanks to the survival of the species goes to most scientists and aquarists. Males are grayish in color and intensely golden towards the tail, females are gray-greenish in color with delicate small spots.

The genus Skiffia comprises three natural species;  Skiffia francesae , Skiffia lermae in  Skiffia multipunctata .

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The species was last caught / seen in the wild in the 1970s. Extinction in the wild was aided by the pollution of the river and the lost battle with all known platypus ( Xiphophorus maculatus ). Today, the Río Teuchitlán is practically a dead river.

 

Golden Scythia can be grown in a garden pond in the spring months, when temperatures do not fall below 15 degrees Celsius. Leave them in it without damage until the water temperature approaches 10 ° C. Scythia reproduces in the temperature range between 20 and 25 ° C, outside this area the reproduction stops (this applies to all Goodeidae).

 

 

 

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