After living with one for 5 months. I have made up my mind blood parrot cichlids should have never been created.
Do not get me wrong I love my BP named Hick-Up. He is so cute and he reminds me of a muppet. Also I am so very glad I have him. My aquarium would not be the same without him. I smile everytime I see him.
He is my first BP and more than likely my last. I never say never, but I do not see myself ever getting another one.
I have Hick-Up in with an Oscar named Grudgetta, a featherfin catfish named Al-E-Kat, and a rubberlip pleco named Boo Boo Kitty. They all live together peacefully in a 100 gallon aquarium, But all is not great.
Everyone gets lots of food except Hick-Up. It is not that he is not feed nor is it that he does not have enough time to eat. It is that he simply can not eat. I put crickets and minnows and worms and he can not catch them with his mouth to eat them. He is also so very very slow so slow that Grudgetta ends up eating them all. Grudgetta is growing so very very fast and little Hick-Up is not growing at all. I read that BP's grow slow and it is no wonder, seeing how they can not eat.
All Hick-Up gets to eat are pellets and he has to struggle to eat them. Also again he has enough time to eat. It is that he can't eat he will spend 3 to 4 mins on a cricket or worm with me cheering him on, but he can not get his mouth around them to save his life, then after a while Grudgetta will come along and eat it from him, then he just follows grudgetta around like a sad puppy eating anything that shoots out of her gills
. And you can forget him eating a minnow all together they are way too fast and he ends up just pushing them around with his mouth.
It is so sad. I mean he is cute and makes me smile, but watching him eat is so sad. IMO what they are doing is cruel. I do not see how Hick-Up is ever going to grow.
I am not looking for a debate. They are here so they deserve love and a home, but again IMO they should have never been.
Also maybe I would not have noticed this and I would feel different if all I have ever had was a tank full of BP's only.
Do not get me wrong I love my BP named Hick-Up. He is so cute and he reminds me of a muppet. Also I am so very glad I have him. My aquarium would not be the same without him. I smile everytime I see him.
He is my first BP and more than likely my last. I never say never, but I do not see myself ever getting another one.
I have Hick-Up in with an Oscar named Grudgetta, a featherfin catfish named Al-E-Kat, and a rubberlip pleco named Boo Boo Kitty. They all live together peacefully in a 100 gallon aquarium, But all is not great.
Everyone gets lots of food except Hick-Up. It is not that he is not feed nor is it that he does not have enough time to eat. It is that he simply can not eat. I put crickets and minnows and worms and he can not catch them with his mouth to eat them. He is also so very very slow so slow that Grudgetta ends up eating them all. Grudgetta is growing so very very fast and little Hick-Up is not growing at all. I read that BP's grow slow and it is no wonder, seeing how they can not eat.
All Hick-Up gets to eat are pellets and he has to struggle to eat them. Also again he has enough time to eat. It is that he can't eat he will spend 3 to 4 mins on a cricket or worm with me cheering him on, but he can not get his mouth around them to save his life, then after a while Grudgetta will come along and eat it from him, then he just follows grudgetta around like a sad puppy eating anything that shoots out of her gills
. And you can forget him eating a minnow all together they are way too fast and he ends up just pushing them around with his mouth.It is so sad
. I mean he is cute and makes me smile, but watching him eat is so sad. IMO what they are doing is cruel. I do not see how Hick-Up is ever going to grow. I am not looking for a debate. They are here so they deserve love and a home, but again IMO they should have never been.
Also maybe I would not have noticed this and I would feel different if all I have ever had was a tank full of BP's only.
