A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

Hi,
My name is Fran. I've been reading your site for about 6 months now. You all seem very nice and you seem to know alot about Parrot Cichlids. I have 3 now myself. They live in a 55 with a few angels, clown loaches, and Bristlenose plecos. We also have tons of live plants and 4 snails. They are all doing great, growing fast, and getting along very well with each other.

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I have a “Miniature Blood Parrot” as Wal- Mart says (don’t think there is really such thing). I got her almost a year ago and she has become quite aggressive. We used to have a very old very large gorse looking gold fish in the tank. Bubbles was basically eating the poor thing alive until I decided to end the gold fish’s misery and flush him :( (do not recomend gold fish with chilids any way). After that she started picking on my cat fish after we moved the cat fish she went after the placo (the placo is about 3 times his size and it fights back so im not so worried).

i just bought two severums for my new 100 gallon yesterday! i got a turquoise one and a gold one. the gold one is no problem and he is only about 4-5" but the turquoise one is a 8" bad boy who thinks he can push simon around. well let me tell you this, simon wasn't so happy about the new fish in the first place and when the turquoise one(haven't named him yet) bit him, that was it! simon took a spaze and attacked him like mad!then after the spazem was over, the severum took his spaze attack! they have been doing this all day, but simon so far seems to be winning.

Hey guys! my friend just gave me his 100 gallon tank since he couldn't bring it to his new apartment and i am planning on putting Annie and Mickey in there. The only problem is along with that tank came a much bigger parrot by the name of Simon.Simon is at least 10" big and my friend told me he not like any other fish in his tank. So i am going to try putting in Annie (3") and Mickey (2") in there with Simon and see what happens.Simon isn't a shy parrot either. He never hid in his caves at all since i had him(which is only 2 two days) well i will tell you guys what happens tomorrow. bye.

I have a 30 gallon tank with a jellybean parrot. I was told it was a jellybean parrot when I bought it, but now I am wondering if it really is a red devil instead. After several years of having this fish, its shape has changed somewhat. It doesn't really look like a parrot cichlid anymore. It is very aggressive toward other fish, as well as towards me. Whenever I clean the tank and need to place my arm in the tank, it bites me--hard enough to bring blood. Is this typical of a parrot cichlid?

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I only have one blood parrot named Eros and I have only had him for 2 days. A friend of mine bought him and realized he only had one pectoral fin and was going to flush him so I grabbed him up. Currently he lives in a 43 gallon tank with some neon tetras, dwarf gouramis and platies but he will be moving in with either some giant danios, black skirt tetras, or silver dollars when he gets bigger. Even though he is shy his curiosity about the other fish seem to be getting the best of him.

Guys, I dont know how to best describe my Parrots,, im just a hobbiest,, had been raising them for so long,, and just thought its time for me to share my exp. with you :)

Here you can see my 100 gallon BP tank ::

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=I95c2791J2g

Cheers !!

PR

hi guys. i got my tank settled from the ick i had and i put mickey and annie back in there. i have also added some red eye tetras and some cory cats.does anyone know anything about bumblebee gobies??? i read somewhere that they can be placed in freshwater tanks but do better in brakish tanks??? i saw some at a fish store and i really like them. i did ask the guy about them but he didn't know much about them?

WAS LOOKING FOR SOME INFO ON MY BP, FOUND THIS SITE AND STARTED READING EVERYONES STORIES, SUGGESTIONS, AND ONE THING FOR SURE EVERY ONE LOVES THEIR FISH, SO I WOULD FIT IN. I KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT FISH IN GENERAL. I DID NOT WANT A CAT NOR DOG OR BIRD, SO WENT TO A LOCAL PET STORE. I SAW TWO OF THE CUTIEST FISH, SO I BOUGHT THEM WITH OUT KNOWING A THING ABOUT THEM. I HAVE HAD ROCKY AND IRAQI BOB FOR TWO YEARS NOW, ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE. FRANKLY I FIND THEM ADDICTING.