BREEDING RED PARROT FISH?

[GreatGems]

I have been looking at White colored Parrots and see there are many breeding pairs for sale around now i like the RED ones what size do they need to be to Breed? How Big of a Breeding Tank do i need will a 20 gallon do or the bigger the better. Any advice anyone.

Thank you

Joshua Van Keulen

 

[messiner]

most males are sterile

 

[stotty]

I Take it you don’t mean Parrot Cichlid "Hoplarchus psittacus"? But the other kind of parrot cichlid, it is sometimes called the parrot cichlid or blood parrot this is a "hybrid fish”

The blood parrot cichlid is a man-made hybrid. The exact origins of the fish is hearsay. As it’s a hybrid it doesn't have a scientific name.

They sometimes do successfully have young my father had a par that spawned all the time but nothing happened I know of some one that did successfully get a pair to raise the fry but they were green.(the fry that is not mum and dad)

 

[abpositive]

If you mean Blood Red Parrots, the hybrids, tte female's eggs are viable, but something like 99% of hte males are sterile.
Oh, and the males get HUGE.
I had 2 males and a female in a 55, now I have the two males in a 55 with a divider, and they are moving to a 90 next month because they are GIANT and the water quality issues are something ridiculous.

A 20? Not in a MILLION years.
Maybe a female BRP and a convict male in a 29...

 

[GreatGems]

hello Than what are the white ones called i see them breeding in pet store tanks all the time



Thank you

Joshua Van Keulen