Sometimes i go to the virgin islands and i have seen parrotfish everywhere, they are very beautiful fish and i have always loved them. I have heard that they are not suitable for home aquariums however. Im just wondering does anyone have one? How big do they get/ how aggressive? Is it possible to get tank bred ones that are on a pellet feeding regiment as opposed to coral. Any info will be greatly appreciated, and pictures/videos if you have one also.
Does anyone have a parrot fish?
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E.D.E
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I have a 7 inch princess parrot in my 180. She's in my album pictures. She can hold her own, but she (and every other parrot) can ONLY be kept in fowlrs. They eat encrusting algae off of corals, and that's it. However, mine is the rare exception as I have gotten her to eat sliversides, pellets, mysis, and clams on the half shell. I'm too lazy to post her pic, just go to my profile.
philter4
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I have kept several different kinds of parrots, some of the species like the buck toothed parrot don't get too big so they can be kept in an aquarium. Parrots don't need to eat coral, what they need to eat is algae and they get it by feeding on coral so they can be fed and kept healthy in aquariums, although some don't recognize prepared foods and can be very difficult or impossible to feed. Most species are not suitable for home aquariums because of adult size, there are few that don't grow larger then a foot to a foot and a half so unless you have a huge aquarium you should not even consider one.
wow your lucky, i wish there was a dwarf parrot = (
E.D.E
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there are smaller species of parrots, but these species need a minimum of 5-6 feedings a day to keep their metabolism and not slowly waste away and die.:sad2:
why not get a nice, smaller wrasse like the newton wrasse?
Nice! How long have you had it, and how big is it? Do you think it will actually get full size?
ill check it out thanks for the recommendation!
same experience with me, my quoy eats pellets. flakes and basically everything I feed the tank, it doesn't touch any coral.
These look like very cool fish, some interesting info on this site. http://saltwater.aqua-fish.net/?quoys-parrotfish
Unfortunatley it doesnt look like its possible for me to provide an adequate sized home for this beloved fish =/
I've had it for maybe 8 or 9 months now. I forget exactly. ( I should keep better records). I'm guessing it's about 5 to 5 1/2 inches. It's nice and plump and eats everything offered including Cyclopeeze, other fine foods, flakes, frozen, pellets, nori. It has grown slightly but not a ton. I got it from BlueZoo. They had it labeled as a "Princess parrotfish" but I knew right away what it was. It's totally peaceful, reef friendly and one of my favorite fish. It will scrape coraline algae but makes no noticeable impact. Completely leaves all of my corals alone. I doubt it will reach full size but I do know it's one of the smaller parrotfish spp. there is. They seems to be more commonly kept by European reefers. It's rarely available here in the U.S. as best as I can tell.
Its one of my slower growing fish, in the year+ that I have him he's not grown much, but he fattened up.
quite a few were imported here to Israel in the last year, but one reefer had to remove his because of him chopping up his sps, all the others including me find that they ignore corals totally.
quite a few were imported here to Israel in the last year, but one reefer had to remove his because of him chopping up his sps, all the others including me find that they ignore corals totally.
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