Any pictures of large polar blue parrots?
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Polar blue parrots are short-bodied Honduran redpoint convicts. They are not hybrids with red parrots, despite what you might read online.
Regular convicts can hit 6" for males and 4" for females, but since the polar blue parrots are the smaller HRP species and short bodied on top of that, I doubt you will ever see one much larger than 3".
Here is a pic I found online from MYAS's Youtube channel.
Regular convicts can hit 6" for males and 4" for females, but since the polar blue parrots are the smaller HRP species and short bodied on top of that, I doubt you will ever see one much larger than 3".
Here is a pic I found online from MYAS's Youtube channel.
I realize this is an old post.
I'm still curious as to how these guys were and are marketed as polar parrot cichlids. Who started that? Does the majority still say these are short bodied red points? I have had some of these for the last 8 months or so and the males are most definitely fertile lol. There are ppl in my area that swear these fish are actually BP x convicts.
I'm still curious as to how these guys were and are marketed as polar parrot cichlids. Who started that? Does the majority still say these are short bodied red points? I have had some of these for the last 8 months or so and the males are most definitely fertile lol. There are ppl in my area that swear these fish are actually BP x convicts.
They are fertile because they are a pure species, just deformed. They have the name parrot attached because the have a similar appearance with the blood parrot.
A convict x bp looks like this:
A convict x bp looks like this:
Wow that's actually a cool looking fish. Not at all what I thought one would look like. So the polar parrots are truly Honduran redpoints with a shortbody gene/deformity then.
I will try and get a pic of my true convict x blood parrot today and post it here.