Three common parrot fish, cold and tropical, can they be mixed?
I wonder what connection they will have. Perhaps the only connection is that businesses feel that they are really hard to sell, so they have a name that can make us think. This is the only connection between them.
There are also fish friends who ask questions about how our parrot fish should breed and whether it can give birth to small fish.
According to normal thinking, we think it must be the blood parrot, but when I answered many questions, I finally found out that people were asking about the mini parrot fish. This kind of thing must have happened more than once.
Just like yesterday, a fish friend came to ask the old fish farmer that the water quality in the fish tank could not be adjusted. We spend most of our time analyzing the problem of changing water, studying the problem of filtration, fish disease, water temperature and so on. It was not until the end that his old man slowly gave up a word and almost didn't make me vomit blood. It turns out that his goldfish laid eggs the day before yesterday.
Suddenly, it reminds me of the classic line in The Journey to the West's article: Why didn't you say so earlier? Why don't you say? ...
Tropical parrot fish, also known as blood parrot, has nothing to do with the other two kinds of parrot fish. Blood parrot fish is a large and medium-sized tropical ornamental fish of Cicadellidae, which is native to Taiwan Province Province, one of China's territories.
It is said that it is a hybrid of fierce ornamental cichlids such as Azar and Purple Crater, and it is a pure artificial fish. Therefore, the earliest parrot fish were fierce and aggressive, most of them were slightly longer, with sharp mouths and strong fighting capacity.
In the later period, the round-billed parrot fish appeared. Although it was also aggressive, its fighting capacity was greatly weakened because of its mouth shape, which is a common parrot fish that we can often see in fish shops now. The individuals of these parrot fish are not too big, about 20 cm at most, and they are all infertile, which means that even if they lay eggs, they can't hatch small fish.
There are also some yellow parrot fish with flowers, some of them are primary colors, artificially dyed or laser colored, and some short round species will appear, called "Yuanbao parrot fish", which is called by different names in different places.
What are the bigger ones, such as king kong parrot fish, red god of wealth and so on. , has some origins with arhat fish, and it varies from place to place. They can also be counted as large tropical ornamental fish.
Generally speaking, parrot fish are called blood parrots, even because their body color and mouth shape are mostly pure red, such as some mixed unicorn parrot fish, and they don't like many fish friends.
Therefore, this kind of blood parrot fish is mainly fed with high-temperature coloring feed, which can keep their body color and state well. Because it is a tropical ornamental fish of Cicadellidae, the blood parrot generally adapts to the weak acid water quality, and is often mixed with ornamental fish such as Tu, Lucky and Yinlong, and will also be used as a sparring partner of arhat fish.
The cold-water parrot fish is actually a grass goldfish, but its color is relatively red. About cold water parrot fish, I saw it in our fish shop the year before last. At that time, I thought it was a random name given by the owner of the fish shop. Later, I learned that the name was basically fixed and the convention was established. Everyone knows that there is an ornamental fish called cold water parrot fish.
No matter how they are cultivated from grass goldfish, they stand out from the crowd. After all, they are also a kind of fish and grass goldfish with wide temperature. Therefore, cold-water parrot fish is basically the same as grass goldfish in habits, water temperature, adaptation to water quality and feeding methods, but it is very different from blood parrot fish.
Moreover, they are not as aggressive as blood parrot fish, which involves a polyculture problem between them.
In most cases, it is impossible to confuse the two. Even if the blood parrot is not very aggressive now, the cold-water parrot fish will not be their opponents, but will only be passively beaten.
Unless the cold-water parrot fish can take an absolute advantage in individuals and the temperature of feeding water is not too high, there may be the possibility of mixed culture between them, but for new fish friends, we'd better give up this idea.
In yesterday's article, I also mentioned that grass goldfish is actually a kind of high-oxygen fish, and the demand for oxygen of cold-water parrot fish is higher than that of ordinary grass goldfish, so I won't analyze the reasons, as I mentioned in previous articles.
In a word, raising cold-water parrot fish is not necessarily more difficult than raising common grass goldfish and common parrot fish. The only advantage is that there is no need for heating.
Mini parrot fish is also a small tropical fish. Compared with the above two, firstly, it is impossible to coordinate the introduction of mini parrot fish on an individual basis, and I have written a lot about fish farming, because after all, I want to raise and breed my pair of fish alone these days, but I am too lazy to turn on the heating pipe, so I finally gave up after thinking about it.
It is said that the mini parrot fish originated from nine pineapples. I don't know about that. All I know is that this little thing is much less difficult to raise than blood parrot and cold water parrot fish. Their requirements for water quality and water temperature are not very high. Even for aquaculture water quality, it can be neutral up and down. The minimum feeding water temperature is 16 degrees, and the breeding water temperature is 24 to 26 degrees.
The biggest advantage of mini parrot fish is to live, live, live, and live until the owner dare not let them regenerate and break the jar perfectly.
Many new fish friends are interested in the breeding of mini parrot fish, and they also encounter many problems. In fact, these problems are not problems at all. What little fish died a few days after it was born? Who told you to feed the shelled harvest shrimp? Will you use egg yolk or shredded fish feed?
What big fish, eat small fish, was born in a fish tank and can't be isolated? Who told you not to breed in a sink? Do not provide a stable production environment for big fish, and usually do not pay attention to the interaction of mini parrot fish, resulting in the parent fish always nervous and afraid during production. What doesn't it eat when it is in eat small fish?
Any ornamental fish has its own personality, some are gluttonous, and there is nothing we can do. We also need to eliminate them in time. However, the juvenile protection of mini parrot fish is not generally strong, so it is easy to screen out a pair of fish with strong juvenile protection. We guarded the only pair of fish in the aquarium, thinking that they wouldn't go to eat small fish. This idea is a bit naive.
In addition, do we usually do proper maintenance? Do they get into the clay pot as soon as they see their master? Once such a parent fish is moved to a breeding tank, how can it not be eat small fish? Even if there is eat small fish in nature, it won't be a couple. Usually one of them. We can change it at any time, but have we observed it? No?
It is the repetition of these details that makes it impossible for us to breed mini parrot fish, that's all.
But we don't have to feel uneasy. As long as we raise three or five pairs of small fish and grow to a big size, it is only a matter of time before the mini parrot fish makes the small fish in your aquarium burst.