blood parrot fish?

Question

what is the best food for a blood parrot fish?

Answer 1

Blood parrots are heavily meat eaters and need a diet strong on meats. A good quality pellet for meat eating cichlids should be the staple of their diet but you can and should add additional meaty foods to that. Blood worms, earthworms, adult brine shrimp and even some pieces of shrimp, fish fillets and such from the grocery store would be good.

I would caution against feeding any fish, including Blood parrots any meats from warmblooded animals. Things like chicken, beef and pork are really not the best sources of protein for your fish. The balance of amino acids from other coldblooded sources, like those listed above are far healthier for your Blood Parrot.

MM

Answer 2

Just for the record, blood parrots are NOT south american cichlids, in fact, they do not even occur in the wild. They are a hybrid fish created by people, not nature. They are probably a cross of the gold severum and red devil cichlids, which are south american, but I just want to make it known that these are not a natural fish, and neither are the jellybean parrots, which are often injected with dye to attain the colors they have. They will get VERY large, a friend of mine has two and they are about the size of my hand now and only a year old. They are also sterile, for the most part, but try and try to have fry...they lay eggs, and then the eggs rot. It's a very sad thing to watch again and again. For the petsmart girl, you guys should be ashamed of the fish you carry and the tank sizes you advocate. It equals out to animal abuse to me to say that fish only grow to the size of their tank, and that foot long fish like the common plec and kissing gourami, blood parrot, banded leporinus, jack dempseys and oscars can live in 10-20 gallon tanks. So, as for the petsmart "PET EXPERT" You can take your remarks and shove them, since you don't know what you're talking about in the first place. Or maybe you do, and that makes it even worse. Anyways, sorry for the rant, and your tank will be full when your parrots are full grown. Even if you upsized your tank, there are very few fish that they will tolerate, though armored catfish and plecs will sometimes make it with them.

Answer 3

Well,the Red Parrot is omnivorous and will eat most prepared and frozen foods, that include freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex, and ocean plankton, and as well flake food and Cichlid pellets.

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Answer 4

When I had those kind of fish, I fed them shrimp pellets.