A day in the life of a Parrot Cichlid

2 min. 11 seconds out of life in the parrot cichlid tank

To read about how these fish taught each other to be so peaceful, see this:

http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000216.html

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• fish
• parrot
• cichlids
• aquarium
• pet
• cute
• intelligence
• pets
• smart
• large cichlids

[ImCaptainjackass]

So what keeps your's so friendly? My parrot despises any other fish except my 11 inch pacu.

[ellenm1]

@ImCaptainjackass  The first two were raised together, and sort of bonded I guess. They actually trained some of the more aggressive ones to be calmer.

[giantfoottruck]

Hey Ellen this is me parrotmoo a member from ur website, old winston looking fat and cute as always! If u hav time come take a look at my video!

[ellenm1]

Hi, I sure will! Thanks for dropping by.

[bestlupinski]

are the blak spots like little dots of all just on ecolor cuz mine has black dots and idk if its normal

[ellenm1]

people have different ideas on this, but here is mine. Parrot cichlids start out life as gray and black striped, changing color to orange or yellow/orange. The black pigment comes back at times, sometimes even in their eyes. After a few years it stops showing up. Some think this has to do with water quality. I'm not sure of that. 2 of the fish in this video never completed the color change. My opinion = If the black spots are flat, and there is no other health issue, I would not worry.

[gimmedis]

my guppies would eat that shit

[gimmedis]

fuck you

[OmARc0101]

@arpankar parrots are hybrid fish that sometimes are dyed for colors some are just normal without being dyed

[arpankar]

Please don't keep parrots. They are deformed fish artificially developed by the men in the business. They have a very painful lifestyle while they survive. They can't even close their mouth. They are often mutilated to give them specific shapes. Also they are injected with dyes to give them the extra color (blue, purple, pink, green, etc etc)

[CinCinLei]

soo cute!

I love PF . :) they follow us everytime we walk by them =3

[Bassintheweeds]

Mr. Blood parrots wanna switch lives?

[AmericanEagles100]

that tank looks to small for such big fish

[superfishman123]

how big is the biggest and smallest one

[HUNK71232]

i have a newly setup 55 and both my parrots breath heavly,my other fish don't do it as bad,but they are young and the ammonia is 0.25-0.30 so yeah...

[thaze95]

Will my parrot become more frindly because he alys hides when he sees me but he is nice to the other fish.