CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How does a blood parrot fish turn red?

1. How does the blood parrot fish turn red?

Feed red-enhancing feed, such as Baozenghong, and you can add some dried shrimp appropriately.

Keep the water temperature between 26-30 degrees, preferably a constant water temperature. In addition, the water quality should be good and oxygen should be added throughout the day.

In fact, raising parrots is very simple, water temperature, oxygen, water quality (strong filtration)

2. What can make parrot fish turn red?

The red color of parrot fish is related to genetics, environment, and food. I can't explain genetics. The darker the environment, the redder it is. If there is enough light in the environment, it will be more obvious. Adding astaxanthin to the food will have a red-enhancing effect. But I personally think the most fundamental reason is genetics. Even if some fish are not red, no matter how you raise them, feed them, or set up the best environment, they will still not be red.

3. How to raise parrot fish and make them red?

Water quality requirements

Blood parrots prefer soft water with weak acidity and low hardness. Since blood parrots are born with lips that cannot close, they have poor control over water flow, and the water flow through their gills is small. Their ability to exchange oxygen between water flow and gills is much worse than that of their fathers, mothers and other fish. Therefore, the water for raising blood parrots must have sufficient oxygen. It is best to equip the aquarium with biochemical filter cotton, water pump, and oxygenation aeration equipment. The specific indicators are pH value of about 6.5 and dissolved oxygen of 8 mg/L.

Temperature control

Blood parrots have strong adaptability to temperature and can live freely in water temperatures of 20-30℃. However, blood parrots are very sensitive to temperature. In low water temperatures or when the water temperature changes dramatically, they are prone to stress reactions, which can cause their body color to become dull and lose its bright luster, and even cause black stripes or spots to appear. During the breeding process, it is best to keep the water temperature within the range of 25-28℃, and the temperature difference before and after each water change should not exceed 0.5℃.

Feeding and management

Blood parrots have a varied diet, and they eat almost everything, including artificial bait, flakes, pellets, bloodworms, brine shrimp, water lice, etc., and they are quite greedy. Therefore, it is easy to keep blood parrots alive, but it is not easy to raise blood parrots with strong physique and bright body color. You should feed them bait regularly and quantitatively every day, reasonably match the nutrition of the bait, and regularly feed them with fresh shrimps and small fish. It is best to choose artificial bait specially formulated for blood parrots. This feed with added astaxanthin and D-carotene is not only convenient to feed directly, but also can make the blood parrot's body color more bright and beautiful.

4. The color of my parrot fish is not right. Does anyone know how to make it more red?

1. I suggest feeding live shrimps. If you find it troublesome, you can feed dried shrimps, because shrimps contain astaxanthin, which can make parrots red. I raised them very well. 2. As for color-enhancing feed, I have used it before, but their poop is also red after they eat it. Even after filtering, it will make the water color ugly. Feeding shrimps can avoid this problem. I suggest you try it.

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5. How do parrot fish turn red?

Your parrot either has a problem with the water quality or the temperature is not high enough.

Or if it is frightened by you, then you need to heat it up or sterilize it or give it some time to cool down.

Don't feed yet

If it is not the above problem, then there is a special kind of food for parrots, which contains astaxanthin and parrots will turn red after eating it.