ChasingFish
Fish Fanatic
We just recently acquired some blood parrot cichlids (that came with a tank purchase). This is not a fish that I think I would have ever set out to purchase (based on appearances), but now that I have them LIVE in person in my tank, and see how funny and interesting their interactions are with my other fish - I have fallen in love with them and would love to get more for my 220 gallon tank that we will be setting up next week.
For those who don't know (I only just learned myself when researching these fish), they are actually a hybrid of "red-head cichlids X midas cichlids" not found in nature...and there are some drawbacks from what I understand in that their mouth is oddly triangular in shape (see my profile pic) and may have other abnormalities. The two that I have are the only blood parrots that I have any experience with, and although their mouths are oddly shaped and their gills also expand out a far distance from their bodies - which is new to me, they don't seem to have any "issue happily existing" are fat and seem to have no problem getting enough to eat. They are also not aggressive to any of the fish in my tank, but I have heard that others have had a different experience regarding aggression.
I guess my question is, have any of you had any experience/problems with this fish type? Do you look down on people who own/breed this type of fish?
For those who don't know (I only just learned myself when researching these fish), they are actually a hybrid of "red-head cichlids X midas cichlids" not found in nature...and there are some drawbacks from what I understand in that their mouth is oddly triangular in shape (see my profile pic) and may have other abnormalities. The two that I have are the only blood parrots that I have any experience with, and although their mouths are oddly shaped and their gills also expand out a far distance from their bodies - which is new to me, they don't seem to have any "issue happily existing" are fat and seem to have no problem getting enough to eat. They are also not aggressive to any of the fish in my tank, but I have heard that others have had a different experience regarding aggression.
I guess my question is, have any of you had any experience/problems with this fish type? Do you look down on people who own/breed this type of fish?