Bullying. Getting worried...

mayreee

mayreee

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I am worried about my one of my blood parrots. We will call the bully BP#1, and the one I am worried about BP#2. BP#2 Loves to hide against the intake part of the filter. It sits there and doesn't move. I often think it is dead and being sucked there by the filter. It doesn't come out to swim with BP#1 and every time it does, like durring feeding time, BP#1 bullys it when they are done eating. There are a few other places for BP#2 to hide at but it doesn't and when it is done eating and goes to hide BP#1 follows it and bullys it. I can't get any "dither" fish until this weekend. What should I do? It just seems as if BP#2 is very stressed.

30gal Breeder
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10

Here is a pic of where it likes to hide:
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Parrots are real mean and agressive fish. 30gal is just too small for more then one. I had 4 in my other 100gal (my wife bought them for me on my birthday) about 6 years ago. They where OK when young, but after about a year one of them got bigger and meaner then the rest. I ended up trading all 4 of them back to LFS.
 
wow, have you ever seen a full grown one?

it is bigger than a 30 gallon tank.

Anyways, i have no clue, since i am against the creation of this deformed fish (they are not ment to be)
 
I would say, if you can get a bigger tank, that more parrots might even out the aggression a bit so the bully isn't just attacking one. For now, you might want to try a divider if it's really that bad.
 
victimizati0n said:
wow, have you ever seen a full grown one?

it is bigger than a 30 gallon tank.

Anyways, i have no clue, since i am against the creation of this deformed fish (they are not ment to be)
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I was told by the people at another forum that is just a blood parrot forum that the size was fine. I am getting a 50 gallon next month definitely that they will be moving in to.

When I bought them I had no idea how they were made and all I can do now is give them a good home.
 
Well they are a cross between two cichlids. Like a mut. No one is really sure what cichlids they are a cross of. People argue about it. Some people also say they are deformed because they can't fully close their mouth and they swim funny. The males are infirtle but the females can have babies with convict cichlid males to make "jellybean" cichlids. One thing I don't know is how more blood parrots are made due to the fact that the males are infirtle and no one knows what fish they are made from. I think I read some people in another country make them. I guess they are stilll making them.
 
Thanks for the insight Mayree.
Its funny because the first thing that came to mind when I thought of "How they are made", is some weird reject lab fish or something. I know, I'm silly! But the thought scared me :eek:
Thanks
 
BrownEyes24 said:
Thanks for the insight Mayree.
Its funny because the first thing that came to mind when I thought of "How they are made", is some weird reject lab fish or something. I know, I'm silly! But the thought scared me :eek:
Thanks
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Nobody said you are wrong.
 
Blood parrots are so funny looking :cool:
 
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