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- More detailed description of the blue orfen
- Advice on keeping ornamental fish
The blue orfe, also called aland, belong to the family of carp fish. They are particularly easy to recognize by their blue color. Sometimes only the back stands out with an intense blue coloration. Blue orfe are now very popular in garden ponds, especially since they are relatively easy to keep.
More detailed description of the blue orfen
The stretched, streamlined body shape already suggests that the blue orfes are agile, nimble swimmers. In community with other fish, they will therefore always be the first to arrive at the food being served. Blue orfen can reach a length of up to 60 cm. The animals lay their eggs between April and July. They can live up to 20 years.
Advice on keeping ornamental fish
Even if the blue orfe is a fairly undemanding fish species, a few tips on keeping it can still be useful.
- The blue orfe are schooling fish, which is why they should always be purchased from a minimum quantity of 5 specimens.
- A pond that is to be stocked with blue orfen must contain at least 4000 liters of water at a depth of one meter and more. Smaller ponds are unsuitable for this type of fish.
- Blue orfe require a very oxygen-rich and also clean water.
- Since the blue orfes enthusiastically hunt mosquitoes that are on the water surface, the fish help to reduce the annoying pests.
- Due to the preferred hunting of insects, the blue orfe usually swim directly under the water surface. Therefore, they are always easy to recognize and observe in the water.
- Belonging to the carp family, blue orfe are predatory fish that feed on snails, worms and smaller fish in addition to mosquitoes. Since they also do not reproduce excessively themselves, there will be no overpopulation in a pond stocked with blue orf.
- Only when there is a lack of food do the blue orfes go to the bottom of the pond to dig for water.
- Blue orfe are ideally fed with sticks containing protein or commercial fish food.
If you like to relax by your pond and watch the fish in it, you've come to the right place with blue orfe, especially as it is a species of fish that is beautiful to look at. If food is sprinkled on the water, the fish come swimming in droves at high speed.
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