Dieing Blood Parrot

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My 4 year old Blood Parrot seems to be almost dead. He has been laying in the same spot for about 3 hours now breathing heavily. This happened just after a feeding. I was adding larger pieces of prawns so that my fish wouldn't eat them and they could get to the bottom for my Catfish. Well my Blood Parrot did eat the piece so I'm thinking maybe he is choking but I can't tell. Any suggestions?? He was fine and eating great 3 hours ago. I'll post a picture from my phone.


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Did his color change? Did he become pale? Was there any twitching?

I've never had a Parrot choke on me but I did lose an Armatus and a Scherzeri to choking and first they twitched while making quick movements through the water(guessing trying to dislodge the food item) paled drastically before coming to rest at the bottom. Gills kept flaring out way beyond normal gasping and I imagine if he was choking he'd be dead by now. If he didn't do that I'm guessing he just ate way too much and doing the fat fish gasp. Again I'm guessing as the only fish I had choke are the 2 I mentioned. I wouldn't touch him either as that's just more stress.
 
koltsix said:
Did his color change? Did he become pale? Was there any twitching?

I've never had a Parrot choke on me but I did lose an Armatus and a Scherzeri to choking and first they twitched while making quick movements through the water(guessing trying to dislodge the food item) paled drastically before coming to rest at the bottom. Gills kept flaring out way beyond normal gasping and I imagine if he was choking he'd be dead by now. If he didn't do that I'm guessing he just ate way too much and doing the fat fish gasp. Again I'm guessing as the only fish I had choke are the 2 I mentioned. I wouldn't touch him either as that's just more stress.
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Ok thanks and no he's always been palish. I guess I'll just wait and hope for the best. Should I add a little salt? That seems to be all I can do as of right now...


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