Why does my blood parrot look different from everyone elses?

[relyk]

I'm not sure if this is the right place but hope you can help me

It doesn't have such a weird deformed mouth and it's head isn't all smushed up, i'm very confused... It also is quite territorial and most of the blood parrots i've seen are pretty friendly.

Here is a video of him(or her i don't know)

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i love him except he recently ate my rummynose tetra's he's really weird too and that log is his home he's dug it all out to his likings.

Also I know my tank is a little small but my fish are all quite small as well and around this time next year I will be getting either a 75 or 90 gallon

 

[baldtaxguy]

I'm not sure if this is the right place but hope you can help me

I believe there is a hybrid forum.

 

[Sarah88]

yeha post in hybrid section, but it is just a blood parrot that isnt quite as deformed as most, also blood parrots are a mixture of several different types of cichlids so definitely get that attitude, they just dont have the equipment to back it up since they can't close their mouth properly so they cant really do any physical damage but they will have attitude like that especially in a small tank

 

[fishman09]

thought I read somewhere that a blood parrot was similar to an ebjd where its a naturally occurring mutation thats line bred? im probably wrong lol.

 

[Sarah88]

thought I read somewhere that a blood parrot was similar to an ebjd where its a naturally occurring mutation thats line bred? im probably wrong lol.

yeah i dont know where you read that at, but they are definitely a hybrid of multiple different types of cichlids, hence why they are usually not fertile and are totally deformed. what were they trying to say it was line bred from?

 

[predatorfish1]

chances are its a weird hybrid that the fish store didnt pay attention to

 

[fishman09]

yeah i dont know where you read that at, but they are definitely a hybrid of multiple different types of cichlids, hence why they are usually not fertile and are totally deformed. what were they trying to say it was line bred from?

I think they said it was a mutated citrinellum.

 

[seedubs1]

It's a hybrid. Not all hybrids are equal. Different traits that are normally recessive or dormant can pop out every once in a while. Yours just happens to not be as deformed as is "wanted".

 

[balton777]

Momma always said Hybrids are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

^^

 

[predatorfish1]

when you cross breed a ton of fish the finished product is unpredictable. goldfish for example have color mutations and you cant breed to get certain color. their just gonna turn out however they turn out. in addition to this, a goldfish has its own unique pattern.