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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / July 2005advice please
i have recently bought a hoplarchus psittacus (parrot cichlid) and have had conflicting advice in whether it can be aggressive or not, it is currently in a tank alone but i want to hopefully put it in with my synspilum, there are only a few fs in cornwall and a few have never even heard of this fish so have been unable to help. i have a blood parrot, and he is not very aggressive, and does not chase my fish, but that might be because all my fish are pretty fast. > i have a blood parrot, and he is not very aggressive, and does not > chase my fish, but that might be because all my fish are pretty fast. thanks but my parrot is very different to a blood parrot, a blood parrot is a hybrid of fairly peaceful fish where mine is a wild caught cichlid, i know its quite rare so its hard to find much info on them. >i have recently bought a hoplarchus psittacus (parrot cichlid) and have had >conflicting advice in whether it can be aggressive or not, it is currently >in a tank alone but i want to hopefully put it in with my synspilum, there >are only a few fs in cornwall and a few have never even heard of this fish >so have been unable to help. If you do a web search you will find many references to Hoplarchus psittacus. Try http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?id=47066 It is often confused with those gross hybrids called parrots. Some web sites have it listed as a Malawi cichlid - they are wrong. Hoplarchus psittacus was classified as an Aequidens.  SignatureSteve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks. http://www.easynn.com >>i have recently bought a hoplarchus psittacus (parrot cichlid) and have >>had [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > sites have it listed as a Malawi cichlid - they are wrong. Hoplarchus > psittacus was classified as an Aequidens. Aggressive or territorial?? I find the cichlids to be territorial as opposed to aggressive.. Yes, these guys have an attitude. I recently seen some at an LFS here and those ones seemed to have the attitude of a the Flower Horn. They flared their gills plates for me as I walked past the tank. So I would suspect your F1 is not going to be much different. The New World cichlids I always feel, have the nastiest attitudes and are exceptionally territorial. Regards.. T > Aggressive or territorial?? I find the cichlids to be territorial as opposed > to aggressive.. Yes, these guys have an attitude. I recently seen some at an [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Regards.. T thanks, territorial i can cope with cause its going in a tank where i can move things around to change the set territories the synspilum have set. oh well all i can do is try it in with them and if i have any problems i can move it back to being alone. >i have recently bought a hoplarchus psittacus (parrot cichlid) and have had >conflicting advice in whether it can be aggressive or not, it is currently >in a tank alone but i want to hopefully put it in with my synspilum, there >are only a few fs in cornwall and a few have never even heard of this fish >so have been unable to help. I think what you should do is try putting the fish together in the same tank and watch them and see how it goes. You want to do this on a day when you're going to be at home all day long, obviously. -Derek > >i have recently bought a hoplarchus psittacus (parrot cichlid) and have had > >conflicting advice in whether it can be aggressive or not, it is currently [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > -Derek Thanks i will try that one and see what happens |
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