What I have found is that these fishes react to their environment. When I bought my parrot fishes I asked the pet shop owner if he knows if they are male or female. He said it’s hard to tell. The fishes were in a typical pet shop aquarium with a minimalistic kind of environment. I took the fishes and hoped for the best. Before this I previously owned two parrot fishes. They were happy fishes and to my surprise lay eggs every three to four months. Unfortunately the eggs never hatched into cute parrot babies as I was hoping. After much research, it turned out that most male parrots are Sterile due to the fact that the blood red parrot fish is like a genetic mutation from crossbreeding. Now back to my new parrot pets. I got the fishes and returned home. My aquarium is outfitted with some pretty stones, air bubbles and a reef ornament. After a day of putting the parrots in there new home. I noticed that they were behaving strange. They were swimming happily and borrowing into th...