Can loach and lobster be raised together

Some children prefer to raise some aquatic products, because they are curious about these things. Some parents buy lobsters and loaches home to enrich their children's growth. However, lobsters and loaches can't survive at home for a long time, because the water at home does not have the living environment of the water in the sea. So, can lobsters and loaches be raised together?

No, loaches feed on all kinds of small animals.

Loach - Living habits

Small bottom fish. It lives in stagnant or slow-flowing water at the bottom of the mud. It has strong adaptability and can live in an environment rich in humus. When the water is lacking in oxygen, they can perform intestinal respiration, and when the water dries up, they can burrow into the mud and lurk. Feeds on various small animals. It lays eggs in batches, and the breeding season is mainly from May to June. The fertilized eggs attach to water plants and hatch. The largest individual can be up to 300 mm long, with excellent meat quality, and is one of the exported aquatic products.

Loaches like to live at the bottom of still water and often appear in the muddy surface rich in plant debris at the bottom of lakes, ponds, ditches and paddy fields. They have strong adaptability to the environment. The living water temperature is 10-30℃, and the optimum water temperature is 25-27℃, so it should be classified as a warm water fish. When the water temperature rises to 30℃, loaches dive into the mud to spend the summer. When the water temperature drops below 5℃ in winter, they burrow into the mud 20-30cm deep to hibernate.

Loach can not only breathe through its gills and skin, it also has a special intestinal breathing function. When the weather is hot and humus at the bottom of the pond is rotting and causing severe hypoxia, loach can also jump out of the water or rise vertically to the water surface, swallow air directly with its mouth, and use its intestinal wall to assist in breathing. When it turns its head and slowly dives, the exhaust gas is discharged through the anus. At this time, all the loaches in the water body rise to the surface to breathe, one after another, so Western Europeans call it "climate fish". It is cold in winter and the water bodies dry up, so loaches burrow into the soil, relying on a small amount of water to keep their skin from drying out, and rely entirely on intestinal respiration to maintain life. When the water level rises the following year, they go out again.

Because loaches can tolerate low dissolved oxygen levels much better than other fish, they can survive longer out of water. In a dry bucket, young loaches 4-5 cm in length can survive for 1 hour, while adult loaches 12 cm in length can survive for 6 hours, and they can still move normally when put back into the water. Loaches usually come out at night to prey on plankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, debris of higher aquatic plants and algae, and sometimes also ingest humus or mud on the bottom of the water. Loaches mature at the age of 2 winter and begin to reproduce in April every year (water temperature 18℃). They lay eggs in shallow water grass with a water depth of less than 30 cm. The eggs adhere to water plants or submerged dry grasses. The hatched fry often live separately and do not form groups.