Learning About My New Tank/fish

Another little tip on fish buying...

Aways have a look around for a quarantine tank(s) or look for tanks that say quaranteed or NFS(not for sale) IF you cant see any ask someone where they are/if they have them.

IF a shop is clever enough to be able to qauranteen sick/injured fish then that may be an indication of there standards and the quality/health of there fish.
 
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Yeah I think I will take that back after a trip to one of my LFS's today to pick up a "friend" for my Blood Parrot, in order to reduce her aggression and keep her company

Was told over the phone that they had 2 large pure bred adult blood parrots in stock plus a load of babies. Got there to find to "bubblegum bred" DYED/PAINTED and very sick looking fish. When I questioned the bloke there about if they were dyed and there breeding he told me no one dies or paints fish these days its all down with breeding.:eek: Liar :mad:

And to add insult to injury they had the parrots on a tank with barbs (fin nippers and flashy flowing fins dont mix) :sad:

I wasnt to impressed the last time I went there and needless to say I probally wont be going there again.

Sorry for the rant ;)

For anyone who is interested... After doing alot of research on parrot fish I discovered that allmost all males are sterlile due to there hybrid type breeding, so the tactic of alot of breeders is to breed a female BP with a male Convict cichlid, this produces allmost identcial fish apart from differences in the mouth mainly but also a few other internal differences. Appartently the current lingo for these kind of Parrots is "bubblegums" or "jellybeans". Havtn got a clue why :confused:
 
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