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Blood Parrot Cichlid, tankmates?

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Blood Parrot Cichlid, tankmates?

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Dear WWM Crew, Some background: I have a new tank which has been setup and had a Blood Parrot introduced last week (only fish in tank). I don’t know how to measure her, but she is 5″ including the tail fin, 3″ without, approx. The tank is 20 gal. with a “Whisper” filter, a heater and an air-stone The tank has yet to start its nitrate cycle (ammonia started climbing slowly, nitrites just above 0, pH 7.0. Doing 20% water changes (only 1 so far, but plan to keep them regular) and gravel vacuuming of 33% of the gravel bed, weekly. After another 2-3 weeks, once the cycle is steady and ammonia and nitrites go to 0, I’d like to get some more fish. I am at a conundrum as to what to do. I’ve read that I will need to get similar size fish to avoid bullying. Also, I read that they do best in “large groups” so that there is no aggression focused on one weaker fish. At the sam

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Dear WWM Crew, Some background: I have a new tank which has been setup and had a Blood Parrot introduced last week (only fish in tank). I don’t know how to measure her, but she is 5″ including the tail fin, 3″ without, approx. The tank is 20 gal. with a “Whisper” filter, a heater and an air-stone The tank has yet to start its nitrate cycle (ammonia started climbing slowly, nitrites just above 0, pH 7.0. Doing 20% water changes (only 1 so far, but plan to keep them regular) and gravel vacuuming of 33% of the gravel bed, weekly. After another 2-3 weeks, once the cycle is steady and ammonia and nitrites go to 0, I’d like to get some more fish. I am at a conundrum as to what to do. I’ve read that I will need to get similar size fish to avoid bullying. Also, I read that they do best in “large groups” so that there is no aggression focused on one weaker fish. At the sam

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