Blood parrot controversy

A lot of people think the same of flower horns. I feel as if they're pretty established in the fish keeping community. I don't find them attractive but as long as they're aren't being colored or mutilated, I see no problem with them.


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Do what makes you happy, some find blood parrots abominations some like them. They are a cool little odd fish I've owned them before and they where cool. I personally detest flower horns with overly large koks but doesn't mean I bash someone who does


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a list of hybrids these people likely don't cry about:

-Mule
-Savannah cats
-Bengal cats
-Wolf and Coyote domesticated dog hybrids
-the Myriad of songbird hybrids in the hobby
-Boysenberry
-Grapefruit

I know it's a belaboured point. Hybrids don't really appeal to me but as long as they are kept healthy and fine then I really don't care. People keep uglier animals than blood parrot cichlids, so what do I care?



Edit: Also just cause I know it's gonna piss a few people off, Humans are a hybrid of a hybrid. After the chimpanzee/human split, it appears we interbred repeatedly. This is because "Different regions of the human and chimp genomes were found to have diverged at widely different times, and the two species' X chromosomes show a surprisingly recent divergence time."

Then after that was all done, we know that humans and neanderthals interbred- particularly Europeans, East Indians, Asians and first nations, with Europeans showing ~1-3% Neanderthal genetics. The most is in Northern Italty, though I personally am half German and show about 2.8% according to national geographic genome project that my brother contributed his genes to. This doesn't even take into account the potential for concurrent species like (potentially) Homo erectus and Homo sapiens to have mated. Remember: if a human can do, they will do. So getting all pissy about hybrids is technically a hilarious thing for people to do. (end divergence from topic, lol)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/humans-chimps_2.html

Ok so this is a personal ethical question. As humans we have been selective breeding animals sense forever. At the same time I agree this is one we screwed up in order to get a specific look. Don't get me wrong there good looking fish but it wasn't worth screwing up there mouth and throat. Personally if I had an interest in these fish I would make sure to house them with there own kind or other fish that are slow eaters so they have plenty of time to eat. I would also feed them the food that is spacificly for them. They have made a food that makes it easier for them to eat. As for the ethical side of things we shouldn't have inbred them. But if you want one and are willing to give it the extra care it needs then go for it. Ok ill get off my soap box and let someone else comment now.

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Not sure what the guy means that the parrots are not "real fish" but,like most hybrid fish I just think they are ugly.They are probably the most pathetic looking and the ugliest of all the hybrids.

don't worry about what others think about hybrids..enjoy the hobby

Oops,sorry if you have some Lee....didn't mean to offend.