HELP!!!!!my red devils\severums wont feed!!

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Michael_G

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weel 2 days ago i got 2 blood parrot that look like red devs and severums they are offspring of blood parots but look nothing like them.they are perfectly oval shaped with long finnage pink colour. anyways they dont want to eat whatever i give them i tries small crickets i thought the wiggling would entice them no way!before that i tried foating ciiclhid pellets you know the long skinny brown ones . anyways what do i do?will they eat when they are hungry enugh?know anything they couldnt resist? i wanna try earthworms havent fund the time to look for some
Help! their lives are in your hands people!
 
Blood parrots are not fertile. If they don't look like parrots they probably are not parrots. My sev doesn't really like worms, flakes and bloodworms only.
 
Do you know if they were feeding in the store you bought them from? its possible they are traumatized from the move still or they may have an internal parasite. do they look healthy? do they look skinny, are they behaving unusually ie gasping or hanging at the surface? do they have long stringly white faeces?
You could try contacting the store you bought them from and asking what they fed them. sometimes fish can be fussy with excepting prepared flake and pettel food if they are not used to it especially if the store were feeding them frozen food like blood worms.
How long have you had them for without eating?
 
by the way tono i wassurprised too when he told me they were blood parrots but the store owner has the parents and has raised the fry himslef so ha!!! anyways today i flushed one of them he had cataracts from a worm on my snail that i got at the same time. i ve had them since last saturday and one was beating up the othr so he prbably was more prone to disease. i kept the agressive one that has no unusual marks or behaviours apart from not eating actually ill cal the store right now to see wht they fed them anyways how long can it last not eating until dying ?
 
Ok so your telling me that two blood parrots bred first of all. That can't be done if you ever pick up a biology book you would know. Blood parrots are a a hybrid of heros severus and a labiatum or citrinellum sp. These fish are not even remotley related, what they have in common is they are both cichlids. This is why the parrot is infertile. The fish store owner is playin you for a fool. Even if they did breed which they wouldn't, the frys genes would be so weak all of the fish would probably die quickly. But you maybe able to breed a female back with a devil, midas, severum, convict etc not two blood parrots. Why would you want such a mutated weak fish anyway?
 
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actually i find it pretty **** weird that two blood parots would make a perfect offspring but hey why in hell would the store owner sell me a perfect fish for 2$ and plu tell me its not what it is . plus the only two fish in the aquarium are the parents and i saw the fry grow and all. besides i am familiar with genetics. it mkes no **** sense but im just telling the facts. the fish i have and saw grow up are actually quite perfect. they look sorta like red devs but whithout the hump and they got awesome finnage.
 
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Well they sound pretty sweet, gets some pics up I'd like to see these bad boys.
 
If I might ask, what you you mean you "flushed" one of them? I hope that isn't what it sounds like, as that is (1) extremely inhumane (2) risks introducing diseases into you rlocal water system and (3) seems to have been based on an extremely flimsy diagnosis and no attempt at treatment. Please clarify your statement.
 
Yes very concerned about you having 'flushed' a fish, cloudy eye is normally a bacterial infection that can clear up by itself or with a bit of melafix pretty quick, most likely to have been the problem if that fish was being bullied. If the fish were not getting on it would have been far better for you to have just bagged the fish and taken it back to the store.
As for feeding, fish can go quite a long time without eating a couple of weeks or so without showing any adverse signs.
 
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