whitecrust Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 Hi All First time posting - long time fish owner. Hey all Question: how can you tell the sex of parrot fish? i did the buy 6 and see which ones pair off and swim together - I think I did it correctly because the ones that I have now are from different fish shops and have get on great. Second Question: Can you keep parrots with a pair of convicts - I have one at the moment only little maybe 50c piece - think it coiuld be a male as it has pointy fins ( name: Mr Furious ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachy Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 Hey there, and welcome. Not to sure about sexing, but you could prob get away with keeping them with cons, parrots can hold there own. Are they blood or fire parrots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitecrust Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 They are blood parrots. I just divided all my tanks up and sold most of my fish to the LFS - coz hes a wonderful guy!! beats jansens up the wazoo hate jansens. Now its just the 2 fire parrots 1 is bright yellow the other is still deciding what he wants to be....... still black striped but about 8-10cm long with an apricot head Yuck!! hoped he would be burgandy damn it. Living in the tank with 3 borneo suckers (the banjo brothers) 2 bronze cories 2 paradise fish -( rocket and pocket )- (these guys are bloody brilliant they have filled my 200 ltre pond outside with about 8 adults and lots and lots of babies!!! best outside fish ever-goldfish are just dirty) and 2 eels - a ladder ( about 6 years old never grew ) and a tire track tigger and eel!! everyone gets on well now Do you have any actual information about fire parrots got them as a gift and I cannot get much info on them. They are different to blood yes? they are the orange and red ones - something about - severum/midas/convict something cannot work out the Jelly beans!! but im sure a firemouth has something to do with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachy Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Yes i think blood parrots are deep orangy red, and fire parrots are more yellow. So if you bought them as fire parrots not much chance of them going orangy red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitecrust Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 exactly but they were a gift. Just bummed at their colours - yellow great apricot not so great but hey ill have them till they die or I sell them which ever comes first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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