Fish Romeo And Juliet

We kept a couple of Parrot Cichlids（丽鱼科） for a few months, everyday with them I couldn’t forget their love story.

The two Parrot Cichlid fish were like an adult’s hand size, the male was a little bigger and fatter than the female, and the colour was dark red, the female was the same colour but a little lighter. The male was more active than the female, there were two small convex（凸状） on their small head, like officers shoulder decorations. His tiny eyes were like two beans laid into the two sides of his head. I called him "Red face general."

The male have so much love for the female, when you wanted to touch the female, he would rush out in a fighting posture, no matter how far away the female was. Of course they were always close together, and would look at anyone who near by their tank. So if you did it again he quickly responded as well. I tried many times, but he always did that to protect the female. Sometimes he used his head to push the female to hide behind the rock in the tank, sometimes he was a little angry and jumped up above the water surface. When he was fighting with you, he looked very violent, sometimes I wore gloves to try to touch the female, and the male bravely bit my gloves. When the staff fed them the male always looked out as a guard and waited for the female to have the food first …

The fish's behaviour really made me envious…they were fish ROMEO and JULIET.

Now the couple of fish have been sold for a long time, but I miss them always…I wish their love for ever, their life for ever.