Nilem Fish Habitat (Osteochilus hasselti)

Nilem fish (Osteochilus hasselti) is an endemic (indigenous) Indonesian fish that lives in rivers and swamps.

Nilem fish (Osteochilus hasselti) is an endemic (indigenous) Indonesian fish that lives in rivers and swamps. In the habitat is easily tumbuhi natural feed of the periphytone groups such as cyanophyceae, chlorophyceae that serves as an important food source for invertebrates, tadpoles and fish. Peryphyton also serves as an important indicator of water quality, and is able to remove solid and dissolved pollutants and is able to reduce turbidity. Peryphyton has a rapid response to changes in water quality. In addition to periphyton, in rivers and swamps tumbuhi with ceratophyllum or hornwort plants that often float below the water surface and reproduce in large quantities, which serves to protect eggs that are laying eggs, and capable of producing high oxygen, usually hornwort plants are used in freshwater acurium. Nilem fish live in freshwater environments with sufficient dissolved oxygen content range of 5-8mg \ L