Rea17
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Varied diet cannot be the issue with mine
Yup. Diet was the same when mine faded temporarily too, so it doesn't seem like a likely cause. Tape a picture of a lady Quoyi to the side of your tank :thumbsup:
Quoyi parrotfish reef safe?
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Yup. Diet was the same when mine faded temporarily too, so it doesn't seem like a likely cause. Tape a picture of a lady Quoyi to the side of your tank :thumbsup:
CedzAquAddictio
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I don't even know what females look like
If that's the case, you have bigger problems than a faded parrot...
Dmorty217
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I don't even know what females look like
I have never seen one either
I tried looking through the fishbase photos, but wasn't quite sure if more or less red meant anything.
CedzAquAddictio
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I've been looking through pictures today as well and can't find a visual representation that will show a difference...
Dmorty217
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Hard to tell the only way to be sure is have three of them and see which two get along the best and see how it goes. I would love to have a pair in my next tank. I wonder if that something Kevin Kohen can look into with the DD selection? Liveaquaria has been selling a ton of fish for a long time.
CedzAquAddictio
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I wonder would any other species female or even male help.... without bloodshed of course
I'm fairly sure from my experience that interaction between another fish species will yield a response, but first you must know the sex of yours. I'm assuming from the interaction between my parrot and male BT trigger that my parrot is a male as well. When the trigger went into heat with the female trigger, the male trigger and parrot were at war. When the female passed, the two (assumed) males didn't fight anymore.
This is, of course speculation, and I can't guarantee that you will have good or bad results, but if I'm right we may be onto something... Also, my parrot isn't as old as yours...
Dmorty217
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I think that you are feeding the right stuff (mostly algae) but there is some algae that grows in the ocean that we can't easily buy in a pellet or sheet form to feed to them. They probably eat some golden algae that that seems like a myth to us
Mike Ordner
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Dmorty217
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Start introducing nori, on a clip and you can also shred some up by rubbing it underwater. Pellets like you said, mine prefers pellets and nori over mysis,brine,clam,squid,silversides,krill,plankton... You name it. Feed formula, spirulina and algae max pellets. Mine seems to prefer smaller pellets over larger ones (2mm) He is close to 7.5" now. I would PP even though the fish came from DD but that's just me
