A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

Ive moved our 3 BP's into a 3ft tank and theyve been in there new home for 3 days now and they dont seem to come out now. They gone all shy. Any answers?

I have read several of the previous posts  and know "shy" is not unusual, especially in a new tank..  This guy is one of the bigger fish in the tank, and I have only had him a few days.  He has taken over a small cave, which is o k.  My concern is that he does not feed as the other fish do.  Occasionally he will come out for a few tidbits that are closest to his cave, but I fear he may starve himself.  Other fish do not seem to intimidate him, but he is quite territorial.  I just worry about his lack of feeding.I even consisdered removing the cave. 

I raised my BP from a 1" baby to what is now a 4" beauty. Yesterday she started acting wierd like she was sick. An hour later I notice ALL the fish acting that way and determined while it was making noise the filter had stopped filtering the water. Luckily I had a spare unit (2x the capacity too) and I quickly made the switch along with a partial water change. Afterwards all the fish started to act  better, except she was still on the bottom left corner looking bad. I called my favorite fish store and spoke to the manager.

OK so i had two parrot cichlids that i inheritted from a friend while at college and they did not get along, probably because they were in too small of a tank a 10 gallon but dont yell at me about it i didnt buy the fish or put them in the 10 gallon i simply saved them  from the porcelin express which was gong to be their fate if i didnt. So i moved the larger BPwhile i setup a 36 gallon tank in my stepmother's office into the other 10 gallon tank i was going to move my guppy and dwarf frog into.