My blood parrot has lost its color again. The levels in my tank are great I tested this morning. He was a brighter orange and now he looks whitish or just pale. Some fish get pale because of stress or different thing are blood parrots like this?
jpchin said:when you say your water parameters are great what exactly are they? are you using liquid testing? any info you can provide would be helpful. how long has the tank been set up?
Um no i could of read it wrong or something but I think so.Nu-Nu the eel said:Nitrites at 5 pm??!! What? I hope you typed that wrong, or i read it wrong
Nu-Nu the eel said:Wait so your tank is still cycling? Im confused, sorry.
Nu-Nu the eel said:Ooooohhh okay i gottcha. You said nitrites and nitrates so i was like whaaat?!
jpchin said:well your numbers look good if the nitrites are at 0 and not at 5. i have read other people on this site say that their parrot fish turned from all orange to almost all black/brown when they got older. here is an article about parrot fish.
Cichlid Research Home Page: Parrot Cichlids
hope this helps. also keep a daily test on your water as this fish might cause a spike in your aquarium's ammonia. your tank is still "young" and adding fish can cause a mini cycle. add fish very slowly to your tank . i would wait at least a week in between fish additions and test daily in case you need to do more than 1 water change a week. what is your water change schedule now? you should change about 25% weekly unless your numbers rise. good luck!
Thanks a lot!!! That helped! I do a 20%-25% water change once a week. I did one yesterday!
Cornstar said:My girlfriend recently bought two Super Red Blood Parrots today, and we were asking a few questions about them.
Initially baby blood parrots are grey/black and it all depends on the water parameter and the right feeding to turn them from black to super red. Since your parameters are good, it may be because of the food you are feeding. He told us that some people bought really red/orange blood parrots and then it turned black/dark and vice versa.
So my question is, what are you feeding your blood parrots and what size tank are you having them in?
Quest84 said:i really like the blood parrots as well but im not sure if these fish would be ok in a community tank? I was thinking of getting some tetras, zebra danios, yoyo loaches , blood parrot and maybe a discus or Ram a few months down the road..is this possible?
i did do some research on the blood parrot and it said that they are peaceful fish but can get territorial. Also that their teeth are pushed way back so it makes it hard to defend themselves against more aggressive fish