Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Hotel accommodation - Life habits of carp

Life habits of carp

Most of them live in still water bodies with many aquatic plants, and they are middle-lower fishes. The diet is miscellaneous, mainly animal food, mainly aquatic insects and shrimp, followed by snails, filamentous algae and cladocera, and occasionally a small number of small fish. May and June are the breeding season, and a few of them last until the beginning of July, preferring to lay eggs on the beach by the lake. Eggs are light yellow, and the egg diameter is 1. 1~ 1.3 mm, and the number of pregnant eggs is small, generally only 1 10,000. The individual is not big, with a general length of 120- 160 mm. It grows slowly and generally weighs about 250 grams.