Here he is now about a month later... he is super colorful.. i'm very happy with the way he is turning out.. cant wait until he is ready to breed

sorry for all the movement..my parrots just laid eggs so they are chasing everyone in the tank around keeping them away from the eggs...

good luck to your eggs sis nice update

he looks real nice. Nice aquascape too. I love driftwood!! My new world collection is about to be downsized, so I won't be able to use it as much =(

Thanks... It's actually petrified wood.. not driftwood... the driftwood that i had made the water sort of like a tea color so we took it out and used the petrified wood.. hes in there with those King Kong Parrot x gt fry that i picked up a while back... 2 of them are starting to fade i think.. the top of their bodies and fins are black.. well we'll see how long he can be in that tank without them all going at it..lol

thats cool. I sue that malay driftwood. Try to boil your driftwood, or put some in clean tub or soemthing in the sun and change the water every few days. The heat will help leech the tannins out of the wood. Boiling works best IME though.

i'll try that because i really like the look of driftwood in tanks... it gives it the lake look....

Thanks for the info!

ya boil it for 15 mins it worked for me...nice fish too.

Here he is at about 4.5-5"






also... i know this should be posted elsewhere but dont want to start a new therad..

any potential on this fader? it's a King Kong Parrot X GT i have 6 of them 2 fading and they are the Syn's tank mates




This post has been edited by christina: Aug 13 2008, 10:31 PM

start feeding him tons of veggies, he will reward you, trust me.

as far as the fader, not much for kok, but color looks good :) but im sure you dont need me to tell you that.

Cool bro. Love your tank setup too. That's worth keeping!

Hey I just got a synspilum today. It is about 3 to 3.5in but has almost no color. You can see the pearls coming in. It is almost all silver and black. I hear they are extremely late bloomers. anyone know if this is true? When it was spooked it showed a little more color so I still have hope. Also I hear they are slow growers? And does anyone have any pictures of a flowerhorn x Syn ??

i think you mean sis, Tinas a girl hehehehehehehheheheheheheh

cool fish you have i think that kind turn out big right ? my then he wel kick ass the blood parrot , good luck bro ..

i got mine at about 2" and it was dark as well and hardly no color.. these are late bloomers most of the time.. just give it time and he will show u his beauty... Feed him veggie pellets as well... The colors will intesify with a lot of veggies in their diet.