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fresh food question

Fri, 01/27/2012 - 16:05 — luvmyparrots

I have had my blood parrots now for two months and am I love with these guys. I have two beautiful yellows and two orange.
I hear that peas are great for them but how many times a week and how many do I give them?
Can they have fruit? I have heard of strawberries or oranges? what about seedless grapes skinned?
I also have been giving them cichlid flakes, sinking pellets ( for my pictus catfish) the parrots eat that before it even gets to the bottom,
and freeze dried blood worms ( they dont seemed overly thrilled with that)

Information regd food for blood parrot

Thu, 01/26/2012 - 04:03 — uswaroop4

hi

I have 2 blood parrots healthy(150 ltrs tank) and they keep on eating all the time. I feed them with super cichlid pellets thrice a day(4 pellets) , still when i go near my fishes they will come and look at me for food. Can i give Carrots(boiled in water and cooled for sometime) then can i drop in aquarium so that they can bite whenever they want and eat??

Eating greens

Sun, 12/04/2011 - 02:23 — Chuck45

Hello, I'm glad I found this forum.  I have had my Parrot cichlid for 8 years now.  She is great..She rearranges plants/wood/gravel to suit her "style." I have one parrot cichlid and three large plecos in a 90 gallon tank.  My parrot cichild is a monster(8 inches) and she is very agressive but is beautiful w/ a vibrant orange color.  I thought I read somewhere on this site that feeding them greens should be incorporated in their diet?  I have always fed her Cichlid Gold.  Would you guys suggest adding something like this to her diet?

Help please! :(

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 13:08 — nicogelo23

I have a 3 parrot fish in my new 50 gallon tank. the design of my tank is they only have one tunnel rock and 2 small rocks. but my 3 parrot fish is not eating their food (pellets). I also have 2 hummerhead fish in my tank.

Questions:

1. how will I feed them if they dont eat the pellets im giving to them?

2. the color of my parrto fish is 2 orange and 1 pink, how will I turn their colors red?

3. what should I do or add in my tank so that my fish will be happy?

4. my 3 parrot fish is scared and hide when people pass by my tank, how will i train them to not be scared?

S.O.S!!!

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 17:20 — Rachel6

Hello, I am new to Parrot fish. Mine is quite small about tree inches long and i have him in a three gallon tank with no filter. I monitor the clenliness and temperature but besides that i feed him regualr flakes and lately his color is lighter and he is spending alot of time at the top of the water. Idk what to do im looking for a new tank but besides that is there a temp quick fix?

Vacation

Mon, 07/18/2011 - 16:10 — Denis

I'm planning on taking a seven day vacation soon and i'm looking for advice on feeding the fish while im gone. I have asked friends to do the task in the past, but when i returned the tank was a mess and i lost some fish. Thanks...

My 6 year old Parrot won't eat

Fri, 06/10/2011 - 14:06 — Debi

I hope someone has a suggestion   My beautiful 6 year old Parrot Jojo won't eat today.  He is usually quite the pig when it comes to food.  He'll eat anything.  I don't think he's constipated because I saw him poop yesterday.  I do feed him peas but haven't for a few weeks now.  The water quality checks our fine but I'll do a change anyway just in case.  Thanks.

Feeding my parrot fish

Wed, 05/11/2011 - 23:21 — kevsto

I feed my parrot fish a mix of things like frozen blood worms and a mix of frozen foods also flakes and even food just for them to help with colour but is designed for this fish. Is this all ok and is there any other stuff that any of you would recommend feed them that they would love

Harrolds eating times. please help

Tue, 04/26/2011 - 09:50 — Parrotfishies

Just got my first parrot fish yesterday and the lady also gave me some frozen krill blocks how often do i feed these to him? Just gave him 1 now and he is a beastly eater only takes him 1 minuet and its all gone. hungry little chubber :) name:Harrold

4 days ago I've buy 8 parrot fish..but they are not eating.

Thu, 04/21/2011 - 20:57 — swapnilk

4 days ago I've buy 8 parrot fish from local LFS. but they are not seems to accepting food.
it's not about they don't like it...they are not even taking food in mouth and throwing away, they are just not interesting to take food...pls help.should I start any treatment ? are they sick? how should I treat them? should I give them terranycin or metrogyl? or just a salt?
or just a water change?
some are stay at top and some at bottom..
pls reply asap.

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