advice please

[Stephen Provis]

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.

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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.

[Stephen Provis]

> wrote in message
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> 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.

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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0100, "Stephen Provis"
> wrote:

>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.


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[T]

> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0100, "Stephen Provis"
> > wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> --
> Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software
>
> EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
> http://www.easynn.com

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

[Derek Benson]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0100, "Stephen Provis"
> wrote:

>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

[Stephen Provis]

"T" > wrote in message
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> > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0100, "Stephen Provis"
> > > wrote:
> >
>
> 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
>
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.

[Stephen Provis]

"Derek Benson" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:10:11 +0100, "Stephen Provis"
> > wrote:
>
> >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

Thanks i will try that one and see what happens

[silvrsteln]

I think the cichlids are territorial, rather than to actively .. yes, these guys have an attitude. I recently saw some in a labour Force Survey of the attitude here seems to be A, Flower Horn. They broke out the gill plate to me, I walk past the tank. Therefore, F1 will not doubt you are very different.