Blood Parrot Care Sheet
- Thread starter Chrisplosion
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Depends on the fish sometimes. Seen some top out around 5" and seen some reach 8".
Would love to see it stickied but I would want to revise and fix some of it first.
I still have an issue with calling the more kkp looking ones low quality blood parrots. A mammon isnt a low quality blood parrot is it? lol. I just dont agree with this because I consider the real mututated ones low quality - as they often die younger and have more health problems. (more mutated = bigger notch and triangle mouth)
I would feels comfortable called these ones you spoke of a low quality blood parrot especially when it comes from Walmart, just like a red texas from Petsmart. I has yet see any health problems in blood parrots, especially the mutated ones.
The one problem I have seen is swim bladder problems, also SOME struggle to eat. My 2 bps and my SB texas died in part of swim bladder issues. Stress was part of it though.
Didn't give them as good of care as I should have too
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Didn't give them as good of care as I should have too
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^ I see lot of swim bladder problems in fancy goldfish than in blood parrots. It is true that blood parrots struggling to eat but all blood parrots I owned in the past do not have this issue.
Well the thing is Mammom and KKP are a different breed. A Trimac and a Flowerhorn may look exactly the same but they are 2 different fish. Out of the two Walmart Parrots I grew for about 15 months, they got to about the size of a normal Blood Parrot. I still have the female and she about 5", I would imagine true KKP would be larger at this point. True KKP also have a deeper orange red color and mine were more of a peach orange colors.
Its like how in those batch of Kirin I keep grabbing from, ones not really a True Kirin. It don't have the deformed mouth or the notched back. That little one is a the equivalent of a Low Grade BP.
Heres my low grade female:
The last picture I took of the male (funny, same background parrot)
30 is fine for one usually. Sometimes you get Blood Parrots that will get larger than 6-7" and those ones do need a larger tank. Its sometimes not ideal but it works, kinda like an Oscar in a 75 gallon.
That's answered my ? Lol was gona ask how big thay get as mines bout 9 inches now so think he's a king kong parrot
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