AboutChris Robbins Expertise I have 25+ years of personal experience as a pet
store employee and manager in the family pet store
business. The main part of our business was
Freshwater Fish. I can answer questions on; Fish care, diseases,
parasites and fish identification, feeding your
fish, breeding and sexing your fish, setting up
your aquarium, cleaning your aquarium, and
"what`s this weird stuff in my tank/on my
fish" questions. I am not an African Cichlid expert, Plant expert or Brackish Expert. No Pond or Saltwater Questions Please.
Experience I worked in and managed my family's fish and pet and fish store for 26 years and maintained the 35 aquariums. My experience also has included occasional in-home consultation and aquarium maintenance for my clients.
Expert: Chris Robbins Date: 3/23/2008 Subject: Breading of parrote fish
Question i have two 5.5"-6" red mail & femail Parrote fish, the femail fish is pregnant but i don't know how i can realise her eggs? and I want to collect the children of the parrote fish.
Answer Hi Partha;
Parrot fish are cichlids and cichlids are very good parents so let them care for the babies, also called "fry", as long as you can. It's easier to care for the fry when they are bigger. However, the problem with breeding parrot fish is that they are a hybrid fish that have a high rate of infertility. There have been many cases of them being able to produce fry, but it's possible they can't. Here is a web page that explains the whole spawning process and how to encourage them to spawn;
