Thank you TankGirl for your advice. At first I was very concerned with the Auratus and the Parrots. The Parrots are very calm and just kind of "hang out" in the tank. They are very funny to watch because we have a half of a ship in our tank and they will all go inside the ship and try to poke their heads out of the holes. All you can see is three eyes and mouths poking out of three different holes. The holes aren't very big but they are CONVINCED that they can make it out of that hole. Actually it seems that the largest one, the red, has found ways to make it out of most of the holes while the yellow ones haven't figured out that if you turn sideways, they can make it out. They have GREAT personalities and contrary to what I have read on the Parrot Profiles on other websites, they are usually the ones that get fed first while the others hang back and wait until the Parrots are done. From what I have read, the parrots generally will not be as aggressive at feeding time and usually do not get as much food, but it's quite the opposite in our tank. I guess I just got lucky with ours.
I have noticed that the Ice Blue (The Alpa Male who is the "king" of the tank) will never chase or go after any of the parrots. I don't know why this is. Maybe it's because the Parrots were there long before the Ice Blue. I did notice our small Yellow Parrot getting a black stripe, a sign of stress. I'm thinking it's beacuse when we did the water change we left the fish in and he probably got scared of the gravel vac. We normally take the fish out and seperate them individually.
I'm definately keeping a close eye on the fish and checking daily for any nips on the fins. The guy at the
lfs said that the Auratus would be fine in our tank, another example of a reason that you shouldn't EVER trust anyone at the
lfs. But again, we must have just gotten lucky.
In my two years experience in aquaria, I will say this, it seems that you can't really say exactly which fish will work well with other fish. It varies and agression is pretty much based on the individual fish and their personality. I know that there are some standards, for example Guppies with Cichlid's, but it's pretty much a guessing game when you add fish from the same Family. A large depending variable is the age and size of the fish that are added. Am I right or am I way off base?
I'm not sure if anyone here has ever had a Blood Parrot, but our smallest yellow Parrot (2 inch) seems to not have grown since we got him over a year ago. He eats well but he just hasn't grown. The other yellow parrot (4 inch) that we got at the same time has doubled in size. Possible Dwarf genes? I'm not too concerned with it but I wasn't sure if there could possibly be some wrong with him or maybe it's just in his genes. Any thoughts?