Aquarium Blood Parrot Fish. The blood parrot is a popular fish because of its unique shape color and small mouth. Blood parrot laying on side and not eating.
Parrot fish temperature varies from 21 deg to 27 deg. These fish can struggle to take food from the surface during feeding time so we recommend using sinking pellets formulated for cichlids rather than flakes which tend to float. That said these deformities dont take away from their beauty.
As far as I know youll need to breed blood parrot to Texas select the nicest of the offspring theyll all be slightly different because of the effects of hybridisation and mate one of these again to a Texas to bring out the nice spotting.
Produced by crossing the midas cichlid Amphilophus citrinellus and the redhead cichlid Paraneetroplus synspilus the blood parrot cichlids genetic mixture has left the fish with a combination of physical traits that compromise the fishs ability to thrive. They also a bred in a variely of yelloworange colors which are not dyed. The blood parrot cichlid is a hybrid aquarium fish species around which notable controversy exists. As far as I know youll need to breed blood parrot to Texas select the nicest of the offspring theyll all be slightly different because of the effects of hybridisation and mate one of these again to a Texas to bring out the nice spotting.
