Like cichlids in Central and South America, blood parrots need weak and low-hardness water. However, because blood parrots are born with oral healing function (especially Class A and Class A blood parrots), their ability to breathe by introducing water through their gills is reduced by half. Therefore, the respiratory function of gills has become an obvious "fatal injury"! Once gill injury or poor oxygen inhalation process will directly affect the physiological health of blood parrot.
Therefore, nourishing parrots should maintain better water quality and provide sufficient oxygen than raising other fish. In particular, it is very important to reduce dissolved nutrients in water, avoid gill diseases caused by bacterial reproduction, and maintain the ability of gill cells to effectively absorb oxygen.
Temperature control
The blood parrot is quite sensitive to temperature. The key is not the poor adaptability of fish to temperature, but that when the water temperature is low and the water temperature changes sharply, it is easy to lose its bright body color due to physiological reaction, and even worse, black stripes or stripes will appear. Using a heater to raise the water temperature to 25 ~ 28℃ can make the fish show bright body color and full of vitality. Fish that live in low water temperature for a long time are not only in poor health, but also prone to illness and death. I believe this is not what players like!
2。 Selection of feed and bait
Early spread: "Blood parrots will only be rosy if they eat shrimp!" This concept is quite correct. Because the astaxanthin in shrimp can promote the blood parrot to show its body color, if it can be fully ingested, the blood parrot's body color will be bright red just around the corner. However, there is no need to bother now. Many special feeds for blood parrots on the market have added shrimp lycopene and "β-carotene", and direct feeding can keep the body color of blood parrots bright red.
3。 The trick of polyculture
Many families and companies arrange aquariums by line number, and like to keep a group of blood parrots by one person. Watching a group of healthy blood parrots swim in the aquarium is a spectacular and touching scene. However, there are still a group of people who like mixed aquariums. This is also a turnip with green vegetables.
In the selection of mixed fish species, it is strongly recommended to choose some cichlids in Central and South America. Especially some medium and large cichlids.
Because the shape of the blood parrot is almost triangular and its mouth can't be closed, it reduces its aggression (it can only impact but not bite). You can choose golden pineapple, dark clouds, red pearls, pearl pits and other fish to match. In addition to a variety of body colors, it can also achieve a state of peaceful existence under a certain balance.