The parrot fish is another freshwater ornamental fish bred by the hybridization of the American cichlid male red manta ray and the purple red fire mouth, also known as the blood parrot because of its bright red body color.
Breeding of parrot fish
If your tank is full of parrot fish, then sorry, your wish cannot be fulfilled. Many people will wonder where the strange thing is, in fact, there is no offspring between parrot fish and parrot fish. Parrot fish are artificial hybrid fish species, this existence of a certain defect, breeding problems are one of their defects. Like lions and mules, male parrotfish are incapable of reproduction, and the parrotfish we see are actually crossed with female parrotfish and some other male species of fish. Female blood parrots can lay eggs, but male blood parrots do not have the ability to fertilize. The original parrotfish was crossed from the red devil and the purple mouth, its father was the red devil, the mother was the purple mouth, and it belonged to the large Cichlid family of Fish in South America. If parrotfish are wanted to breed, they can only breed through the Red Devil and the Purple Fire Mouth. In addition to the times, we can also breed through the luohan fish, parrot fish and luohan fish hybrid, hatched a unicorn parrot fish, it has the rich color of this luohan fish and the cute size of the parrot fish, which also makes the breeding of parrot fish uncertain.
Red Devil
Purple red fire mouth
Luo Han fish
Unicorn parrot
The water quality requirements of parrot fish
Because of the wordless, I like soft water with weak acidity and low hardness. The hardness of the water can be reduced by placing sunken wood or black water in the fish tank
The temperature of the parrot fish
Blood parrots are highly adaptable to temperature and can live freely at water temperatures of 24 ° C to 32 ° C. However, the blood parrot is quite sensitive to temperature, and it is easy to produce stress responses in the case of low water temperature and large changes in water temperature, resulting in a dull body color and loss of bright luster, and even black stripes or markings. During the feeding process, it is best to keep the water temperature in the range of 24 ° C ~ 32 ° C, and the water temperature difference before and after each water change should not exceed 3 ° C. PS: Summer is coming, the parrot fish can survive as long as the maximum temperature does not exceed 42 ° C, so everyone thinks that the temperature is too high, don't worry
Why did the parrot fish turn white?
In order to make the blood parrot look good, the blood parrots in the general store are fed artificial colored feed (astaxanthin-containing feed) or injected pigments, and when the blood parrot is brought home, it will gradually fade. This problem is very common, you don't have to worry too much, there are many artificial feeds on the market for parrot fish color enhancement and color preservation. If it is only due to the fading of pigment and whitening, it only needs to be fed artificial feed to add color and preserve color to recover.
However, if the water body they live in suddenly changes or the water quality is too poor, it may cause their body color to turn white. Usually when changing water, if a large amount of new water is suddenly added, destroying their original living environment, the color of the blood parrot will turn white, which must reasonably control the amount of water exchanged each time, and the temperature of the water body should also be well grasped. However, if the aquarium is not cleaned or changed for a long time, the water quality in the aquarium becomes very poor, and bacteria are very easy to breed, which may lead to gill diseases in the fish, it is best to change the water once every four or five days, with a small number of times as the principle of water exchange. (If it is a change in water temperature and water quality that causes whitening, it can be restored after control)
In addition, the hard water quality will also cause the parrot fish to turn white. So observe the reasons and then change, if there is no problem in water quality, feed the brightening pigment and add black water to soften the water quality
If the parrot fish has black spots, it is basically the result of the hard water quality
Parrots are gathered in the corner of the tank, and people will scurry around as soon as they come, what to do?
Parrots are naturally timid and love to get together. Note: Don't feed too much, when they are half hungry, they have to come out to find food. Feed at night, hungry during the day, will come out. Don't be frightened, when approaching the fish tank, slow down, the fish is in the tank, see the figure to run, so don't let the shadow shake to the fish tank before approaching the fish tank. When feeding food, stay in front of the tank for a while, gently pat the tank, train for a while, and it will be fine.