Extra Aggressive, or Normal?

[GentleGiantsCichlidKeeper]

Yes. Both my females go pale the day they lay eggs. Patch normally is a bright pink color. Sometimes she looks flamingo pink, sometimes a salmon pink. It usually takes between 3-6 days for her color to come back. Right now she's like (milk?) pink, very light color.

Kong just finished eggs last week. She's still sporting her 'frosty orange' look with a midas patch on her face.

When did your Blood Parrots start laying eggs? Around how long after you started housing them?

 

[FINWIN]

Sometimes my Blood Parrots get that frosty color for reasons unknown to me, the regular colors usually come back in around a week. My Blood Parrot isn't mature enough to make eggs i'm awaiting that experience.

My experience has been color changes happen when either:

Environment changes (good or bad)
Hormones
Stress
There is a low ph crash (they get pale suddenly)
And sometimes just because.

 

[FINWIN]

When did your Blood Parrots start laying eggs? Around how long after you started housing them?

Funny you ask. I've had my parrots for 1 1/2 years. Patch laid eggs two weeks after I got them. Kong was a male until around May this year and turned female (I have a thread on it). Boss and Tango are males.

Patch lays huge amounts of eggs, she more 'square hip'.
Kong lays relatively small amounts of eggs, she' s 'top heavy' and triangular with 'narrow hip'.

One time Patch had so many eggs they were falling out as she swam. She's tossing out a batch as I'm typing this.

 

[GentleGiantsCichlidKeeper]

Funny you ask. I've had my parrots for 1 1/2 years. Patch laid eggs two weeks after I got them. Kong was a male until around May this year and turned female (I have a thread on it). Boss and Tango are males.

Patch lays huge amounts of eggs, she more 'square hip'.
Kong lays relatively small amounts of eggs, she' s 'top heavy' and triangular with 'narrow hip'.

One time Patch had so many eggs they were falling out as she swam.

Wow! I've had my Blood Parrots for almost a year now and got no eggs. I hope my Blood Parrot don't lay as many eggs as Patch still, lol! Lot of eggs to clean up.

 

[FINWIN]

She drives me crazy with all them eggs. But she's gotten better at cleaning them up herself. One time I had to break the tank down, she scattered eggs on every surface, even the glass walls! It was crazy.

Neither of them will eat while laying, up to 3-4 days. Then they work on the eggs and get the protein back.

 

[GentleGiantsCichlidKeeper]

She drives me crazy with all them eggs. But she's gotten better at cleaning them up herself. One time I had to break the tank down, she scattered eggs on every surface, even the glass walls! It was crazy.

Neither of them will eat while laying, up to 3-4 days. Then they work on the eggs and get the protein back.

Lol! My time is coming for a experience like that but hopefully not as chaotic. Thanks for the explanation of the color changes, and wishing you the best of luck with Patch and her egg situation!