Treating Blood Parrot Fish Injured in Fights
📝 Summary
Blood parrots are territorial and bite when cramped or hungry, but minor wounds often heal with clean water and salt while serious ones need potassium permanganate or a medicated bath. Prevent fights with a bigger tank, steady feeding, and a divider for new tank mates.
1 Preventing Fights
Use a larger tank so territorial parrots have room and bite less. Feed enough on a schedule — food competition is the top cause of fights, so add more if you keep many. When mixing parrot fish with other species or keeping a large group, place a clear divider so they sense each other, then remove it once they are used to one another.
2 Treating Injuries
Mild injuries can heal on their own; medicine stresses them, so just change water often and add coarse salt. For worse wounds, dab potassium permanganate once daily, or sprinkle yellow powder or antibiotic into the water and soak the fish about 20 minutes — improvement in roughly a week. During recovery keep temperature and water stable (change difference under 2°C, water changed about every 3 days) to speed healing.
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