Baby Blood Red Parrot Cichlid
The following information is provided to make you aware of the chemical dyes used to create the colors of this recently popular fish.
Baby blood red parrot cichlid. Blood red parrot fish should not be confused with the true parrot cichlid hoplarchus psittacus or the salt water parrot callyodon fasciatus. They re a strange breed of fish as well finding their special place in the family tree of fish through experimentation and varied breeding. When choosing blood red parrot fish you will notice that the baby parrots are very dark with stripes.
Blood red parrot cichlids being hybrids are especially sensitive to the state of their environments. No binomial nomenclature is a hybrid thought to be between the midas and the redhead cichlid although the true parent species has not been confirmed by breeders the fish was first bred in taiwan around 1986. They can have difficulty feeding from the surface so ideally the food should sink so use pellets over flakes.
The fish was first created in taiwan around 1986. The fish was first created in taiwan around 1986. See more ideas about cichlids parrot fish.
The blood parrot cichlid is a hybrid produced by breeding the midas and the redhead cichlid. Your blood parrot cichlids will eat many different types of food. They are omnivorous so can eat both meaty foods and vegetation.
Blood parrots should not be confused with other parrot cichlids or salt water parrotfish family scaridae. The blood parrot cichlid or more commonly and formally known as parrot cichlid. The blood parrot originated from hybrid breeding of cichlids in taiwan in the late 1980s.
As they start to grow they change color quickly from dark to a mottled black and orange to a true solid orange. This happens very quickly within the first four months. 1 although they ve been on the market for some time blood parrot cichlids were not seen widely in pet shops before the year 2000.
You can feed them dried freeze dried frozen and live foods.
