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Edit Blood Parrot Fourteen years ago, on the Chinese island of Taiwan, the market for large cichlids dwindled as smaller fish gradually became more popular. A man named Tsai Chien-Fa raised his own fishery's red devils and purple-red fire mouths together, and as a result of an unintentional mistake, the male red devils and cohabiting females of purple-red fire mouths gave birth to a group of rare and bizarre new fish species, which is the blood parrot. When it was first introduced to the market, the industry treated the origin of the blood parrots as a trade secret and kept it extremely secret. Rumors about the blood parrot's origins spread around for a while. In fact, the blood parrot is not a natural species. It was created artificially by chance, by chance, and became a highly sought-after species. The blood parrot is strong and stocky and will eat almost anything, like artificial baits, flakes, pellets, red worms, plentiful shrimp, lice, and more. It is like a garbage can, accepting everything as it comes. And it always eats all day long. In addition, they are very adaptable to the water quality from weak acidic to neutral water quality can be good survival. So it is easy to keep them. Species: (1) Blood Parrot: Blood red body color, wide body width and short tail shank. Beak-faced elephant parrot: large eyes, small mouth, the most blood parrot ornamental (19) 20 cm long; (2) macaw: blood parrot variant, head with sarcoma bulging, large red, body length of up to 30 cm or more, life expectancy of about 8 years; (3) Purple parrot: selection of strong and healthy blood parrot individuals, fed to special feed for artificial coloration of blood parrots; (4) a heart of parrots: the use of surgery to Blood parrots that cut off the tails of their young and look like the shape of a heart when they are upside down; (5) Unicorn parrots: blood parrots that use surgical methods to trim the front of the dorsal fins of their young to look like a rhinoceros' horn; (6) Candy parrots: blood parrots that are injected to make them change their color to purple, blue, yellow, or orange. However, the colors are not durable. There are also laser-dyed blood parrot fish with the characters of Ji, Fu, Fortune and Longevity. EditThe management of blood parrots1.Water quality management Blood parrots require the same growing conditions as the average Central and South American cichlids, and blood parrots also require weak and low hardness water quality. However, because blood parrots are born with a healed beak (especially the Extra A grade and A grade blood parrots), their ability to introduce water flow through the gills for respiration is reduced by half. As a result, gill respiration becomes a clear "Achilles' heel"! If the gills are injured or the process of oxygen intake is not smooth, it will directly affect the physiological health of blood parrots. Therefore, when keeping blood parrots, it is necessary to maintain better water quality and provide sufficient oxygen than other fishes. In particular, it is very important to reduce the dissolved nutrients in the water to avoid the proliferation of bacteria and gill diseases, and to maintain the ability of gill cells to attract oxygen effectively. Temperature control Blood Parrots are quite "sensitive" to temperature. The point is not that the fish's adaptability to temperature is poor, but rather that under low water temperature and drastic changes in water temperature, it is easy for the fish to lose its bright body color due to physiological reactions, or even black stripes or markings may appear. If you use a thermostat to raise the water temperature to 25-28℃, the fish will have a bright and vibrant body color. Fish that live in low water temperature for a long time not only have poor health, but also are prone to illness and death, which is not something that players would like to see! 2. Feed and bait selection Early rumor has it that "blood parrots need to eat shrimp to have a reddish color!" This concept is quite correct. Because the "astaxanthin" in shrimp can promote the color of blood parrots. If you can take enough astaxanthin, the color of blood parrots will be bright red in the near future. However, there is no need to bother so much nowadays, as many of the special feeds for blood parrots available in the market have added astaxanthin and "β class 1 carotene", which can be directly fed to maintain the color of blood parrots in bright red. 3. The trick of mixing many aquariums arranged by many families and companies like to keep a group of blood parrots alone. Many families and companies have set up aquariums where they like to keep a group of blood parrots alone, and watching a group of healthy blood parrots swimming in an aquarium is a spectacular and touching sight. However, there is another group of people who prefer mixed aquariums. It's a case of each to their own. When it comes to the selection of species for mixed aquariums, it is highly recommended to choose some cichlids from Central and South America! Especially some medium to large cichlids. Because the blood parrot's body shape is similar to a triangle and can not close the mouth, so that the aggressiveness is reduced (only impact can not be torn), you can choose the golden pineapple, black clouds, red pearl off the knife. Pearl fire mouth a class of fish to match, in addition to a variety of body color matching, but also in a certain balance, to achieve peace **** survival of the realm. 4. aquascape for these body color red and single color fish, aquascape in addition to color matching and avoid the use of plants for the aquascape material, but also need to take into account the strength of the body of the fish collision, so aquascape of the sturdiness of the necessary! There are many noteworthy aquascapes for your reference, one of them is the sunken wood or grown-up Mossy sunken wood, which is mostly placed in the center of the aquarium, and the bright red color of the blood parrots will have a stronger contrasting effect; and the second one is the aquascape made of fossilized wood or rocks. It is common to place a single or multiple rocks in an aquarium, but of course, the aquarium should be big enough to have more choices and variations.5 The other issue is the mindset of the keeper! Although not much care is needed once the necessary growing conditions are in place, it takes some time and effort to patiently change the water regularly, check the aquarium's equipment, and carefully observe the health of the Blood Parrots in the water. Reproduction of Blood ParrotsThe blood parrot fish can lay eggs, but they will not hatch because the blood parrot fish is a cross between two species of fish, like a donkey and a horse, and is not capable of reproducing. The female can't hatch even if she lays eggs. But if you are interested and insist on trying to breed blood parrots, you can try adding a few Shouxing, Red Devil, Purple Red Fire Mouth, etc., that is, prepare males of Red Devil, Shouxing, Purple Red Fire Mouth, etc. for the females, and you might be able to breed them that way