Lalius

Small (male of about 6 sm, females hardly less) fish with rounded, in type by the uploshennim body.

Adult males glitter by the cobalt-dark blue forehand of belly, the other part of body and plavniki are covered by the ablaze transversal bars of coral-red and light-blue-dark blue colors. For beauty and grace of lyaliusov name still iridescent fishes.

Abdominal plavniki of these fishes as long filaments are very mobile and, presumably, carry tactile functions. The females are painted more modest, in the serebristo-serie tones with the bars and rather yellow abdominal plavnikami probleskivayushimi by blue, while at males they — red. Besides that, the dorsal fins of males have a sharp form, while at females they rounded off.
Comparative was recently shown out foreign aquariums still more beautiful form of bright red lyaliusov. Beauty and high prices on this novinku served by the reason of criminal history with the theft of fishes from the nursery of creator of this variety, which the first time was by the monopolist of their breeding. Now agiotage round this recent rareness poutih and they meet already and at the Russian aquariums.
Lyaliusi — peaceful fishes and not bad get along in the general aquariums with other kinds. But eat the fries of viviparous fishes away to single, otlavlivaya them by the instantaneous throws from jungles. Besides fishes very beautiful on itself become barely visible in the general aquarium, where prefer to take shelter in the jungles of plants. Therefore is of most interest maintenance by their group in the separate aquarium.
As well as all labyrinth, lyaliusi are undemanding in regard to inflexibility of water and its reaction of environment. Temperature of the maintenance 24—26 °With, spawning at 28—30 °With.
Male builds a nest from suds and richchii. After ikrometaniya female it is necessary to delete, and male guards a nest in the flow of days, to the exit from the caviar of larval stage of fries, and days three more, while the fries with the geltochnim bubble already sucked in will not begin independently to float and feed. Then male must be transplanted, and feed the fries with infusoria and mikrovodoroslyami — evglenoy (by the green water), appearing in aquariums with the old water at the good sun illumination. At the sufficient feed on the early stage the little people grow quickly and to the desyatidnevnomu age pass to the feed by shallow tsiklopami.
About 6 months become polovozrelimi lyaliusi in age.