Hi. I am fairly new into fish. I have a 90 gal with mostely ciclids. The tank is set up with lots of rocks, drift wood, ect .. My question is I have 2 blood parrots. One is about 6" and really round and the other is abou 5" and a little smaller. How can I tell the sex of these. They tend to stay in one area hid between rocks. Like a cave. The chase away every other fish wich comes near them. There are maybe 2-3 other ciclids there size or a little larger. Most are smaller. The only larger one that is alot bigger is an oscar. I probabbly have a few to many fish in the tank. But, most are smaller and a intend on getting a larger tank. Is it possible they laid eggs? When I clean the tank they even attack me. They even chase away the larger oscar. Is this just there nature?, or possibly do I have a breeding pair?
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I dont think they are that easy to sex myself, unless they are dropping eggs, then naturally it is REALLY easy to tel by the huge breeding tube hanging down lol.... I know I have at least one nice fertile female for sure.
Well, based only on my personal experience, if you had two males, they'd be fighting each other. I would say (again, based only on personal experience) that you have a pair since they are defending a territory together.
Watch for them to pair off is the easiest way. Male will start digging the nest and the female hangs around until... they may spawn but there is no quarentee they will be fertile!
If they are big enough to tell... the male will have what looks like a spike and the female will have a tube.
If they are big enough to tell... the male will have what looks like a spike and the female will have a tube.
on my parrots i'v noticed the top fin on the male is more of a solid, almost even hight. The fems have a more spikey seperated at the begining kind of look. Sounds wierd but it jump out at me one day when i watched the 4 of them chasing each other. I have 2 and 2 one set does the do, the other set just watch each others back.