True Parrot cichlid
True Parrot cichlid
Origin
South America: Amazon River basin, in the Negro, Preto da Eva, Urubu and Jamari rivers in Brazil; also in tributaries of the upper Orinoco River basin.
Description
hese are not fish for beginners, they should be kept by keepers with some experience of keeping other large cichlids, they demand top water quality with many keepers housing them in RO water that has been re-mineralised.
| Family: | Cichlidae |
| Genus: | Hoplarchus |
| Species: | psittacus |
| Status: | SOLD OUT |
| Diet: | Omnivore |
| Sexing: | Monomorphic |
| Breeding: | Substrate Spawner |
| Max Size: | 30 cm |
| Water Hardness: | Hard |
| Difficulty: |   |
| Temperment | Conspecific Temperment |
| Mildly Agressive | Mildly Agressive |
| min Temp °C | max Temp °C |
| 25 | 30 |
| min pH | max pH |
| 5.5 | 6.5 |