Blood parrot cichlid

The parrot cichlid, Red Parrot ( Blood Parrot, Bloody Parrot ), Parrot cichlid, sometimes also called parrot perch, is a rounded, deep-bodied deformed fish with a strange, almost beak -shaped mouth and often clearly distinguishable from the fuselage nose with wide eyes. According to experts within the meaning of § 11b Animal Welfare Act it is classified as spoiled breed.

Description

With the parrot cichlid (s) - Hoplarchus psittacus - has the parrot cichlid not the least to do. Even with the parrotfish family Scaridae the he is not related. The small, almost beak-like -looking mouth of the fish, which it can no longer close properly in most cases was the inspiration for the naming.

Meanwhile, parrot cichlids available not only in strong orange color, but in all sorts of colors on the market. The ink is injected fish or altered by other methods, for example, hormone treatment. Ever since the 1980s, so colored fish was injected with needles acrylic colors in the body cavities. Over time, the color fades in the aquarium again. This procedure is of concern for animal welfare reasons.

The deformations of the animals are less pronounced. The fish with the trade name " Red Parrot no tail " is missing the entire caudal peduncle including the tail and the tail fin. Also tattooed animals are commercially available. Here the animals with so-called dye lasers ( dye laser) is tattooed on luck symbol on the Chinese New Year's wish to sign saying what the customer requires. It is assumed that this treatment is extremely painful and also completely unnecessary. The parrot cichlid called "Purple Heart Red Parrot" was bred herzchenförmig.

Parrot cichlids are about 20-25 cm tall and require appropriate pool. They eat most commercial feed and make no special demands on the water and the temperature.

If the parrot cichlid with other tropical bass, perch its nature is quite a-days, but he pulls towards other dogs aggressive because of its diverse disabilities lose out. Smaller perch over the parrot cichlid behaves revier making, but rather peaceful.

Origin

Most cultivated varieties commercially available from Asia. It is believed that it is at these spoiled breeding hybrids to a crippled form of lemon cichlid (A. citrinellum ) or a hybrid of lemon cichlid Vieja and synspila, Heros severus, Amphilophus labiatus as well as some other species.

The parrot cichlid was mentioned as one produced in Singapore intersection in the March issue of the American magazine Tropical Fish Hobbyist 1992 and illustrated.

The nursery Taikong Aquatic Live (Taiwan) are in their catalog 2000/2001, however, the two Central American species A. citrinellum and Vieja synspila as output forms. The online catalog of 2011, twelve different variants of the parrot cichlid are shown.

Hanneman (2000), however, does not lead out of hand -setting arguments to ensure that the parrot cichlid is probably not due to a crossing of different species, but represents a mutation of Amphilophus labiatus. Also claims that were circulated by the breeder of commercial considerations about its true origin deliberately false information to guide competitors in the offspring astray.

Male fish are sterile and the eggs are not fertilized. Breeders try to eliminate this condition by hormone therapy.

The propagation of the parrot cichlid with a homozygous pair of these hybrid cultivar is due to recessive lethal factors have so far failed. A successful " further growth " was only heterozygous individuals that were created by backcrossing with a descent animals possible.