A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

Hello All,

I am a new Blood Parrott Fish owner (I love them), I've had them for just over a week now and I have a few questions if any one would help. First I have 2 BP's in a 30gallon tank with 1 angel fish, 2 crayfish, and an alge eater, is this too many fish for one tank? The one BP always picks on the other BP, but nothing else.

Hi,

I'm just in the process of figuring out the sexes of my 4 little fishies. I have a parrot (obviously), a fire mouth, a jewel, and a peacock. Any tips on how to sex them? Thanks !

I have a 16 gallon tank, and when I started out I was wooed by the cute mannerisms of the Blood Parrot Cichlid, and I bought three of them. They were quite small, only about 2" long. After about 6 weeks, one of them jumped out of the tank. I believe that the jumper was being picked on by one of the other two. After he jumped, I noticed that one of the BPs was being very territorial, and the both of them spent most of their time hiding in the tank decorations.

can someone plaese tell me the normal level of nitrate , ph , nitrite, hardness , alkalinity ? i really need to know now my fish are not acting normal please any advice ?

i wanted to know if res blood parrot fish can get stress and if they do will that die from stress ? i just wanted to know . what are the reasons they will die ? can they die from not having a hiding place ? again i just wanted to know ?

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I only have one blood parrot named Eros and I have only had him for 2 days. A friend of mine bought him and realized he only had one pectoral fin and was going to flush him so I grabbed him up. Currently he lives in a 43 gallon tank with some neon tetras, dwarf gouramis and platies but he will be moving in with either some giant danios, black skirt tetras, or silver dollars when he gets bigger. Even though he is shy his curiosity about the other fish seem to be getting the best of him.

Guys, I dont know how to best describe my Parrots,, im just a hobbiest,, had been raising them for so long,, and just thought its time for me to share my exp. with you :)

Here you can see my 100 gallon BP tank ::

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=I95c2791J2g

Cheers !!

PR

Hi. I have had two BP's (Merrill and Punch) for about 1.5 years. We love them to death and find them very amusing. In the 1.5 years they have grown 2.5 inches to be now about 3.5 inches each and are very healthy in spite of me not knowing what I was getting myself into. Merrill, the larger more agressive one - has always wanted to bite at me when I have my/hand or arm in the tank, but he (she? - not sure) is really getting out of hand lately. Is this normal behavior and is there something I can do that will stop it?

Ok don't mean to be a bother but I have another question lol. I was feeding my fish the last of the pellets this morning and noticed something odd about one of them. My smaller parrot has a missing fin! Not the tail fin but one of it's side fins don't know what they are called their 'arms' I guess. Will this grow back? I have him separated now in case it was from fighting.