Tank size for 2 King Kong blood parrots?

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Very interesting. How many blood red and King Kong Parrots do you have in your 125G and what are their sizes? A PIC of your tank and fish would be great.

I once had 3 large blood red parrots in my heavily stocked 125G Hap, Peacock and mbuna tank for years but despite quickly growing to a large size, eating well and seeming to thrive, they all eventually died at different times over an extended period of about 3 years. No signs of damage to any of the blood red parrots and no other fish in the tank perished other than a few due to obvious violence from the other cichlids, usually I would just find a few bones during a tank cleaning. Random violence just seems to be an inherent, inescapable part of keeping a mixed tank of African cichlids. If I kept blood red Parrots again, I would dedicate a tank to only them (and a few catfish) like you have successfully done.
6 blood parrots, and 2 KKP
Unless your blood parrots are HUGE I’ve never had issues with water quality and weekly water changes. Everytime you add a new fish they will fight for a day or two and then completely mellow out. I also had my first die of a random disease last month, rest are going strong though

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Also have tiny clown loaches they never bothered them, and I had a bichir I was growning out and they never bothered him either. They did not like large cichlids, and silver dollars though, but it could have been limited space
 
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