breeding blood parrots?

[matty832012]

Hello,

everything is going well but things have been getting a little familiar with two of my blood parrots. Now it a piers they are moving rock to make a nest style area in the tank. as much as i think it would be awesome to have a breading happy pair of parrots now i realize what the heck am i to do if this is the case? i have resurched a lot over the last little bit today and have received mixed reviews as to how cichlids care for there young. i was looking for info on whether i should start a way to separate them somehow or what. i have a 180 gallon with parrots and Oscars plus two small Africans high breads from petco that probably don't even realize they should be feisty but look great. pleas let me know any advice

 

[letstalkfish]

Blood parrots are a sort of whacky hybrid, and for that reason an extremely high percentage of the males are sterile. If you have two blood parrots that seemed to have paired up, even if they lay eggs, it is HIGHLY unlikely that they will be fertilized by the male. When I say highly, I mean pretty much impossible. Although, female bp's can reproduce to form more hybrids, like 'red' texas cichlids.

 

[matty832012]

ohh i get ya that is where the red texas comes from parrot and dempsi right? i have a fue parrots and it seems as tho these two are alwayse together even tho they came from different places and different times
thank you

 

[Dr.B]

well actually i think depending on where you got the parrots the male won't be sterile. I heard that segrest farms (i think or some where) has been using the small amount of fertile blood parrots to mate and the fry have a better chance of not being sterile. Then again maybe not segrest farms but i saw that some where

 

[oscarman2003]

i dont think its segrest tho i think it is somewheres over seas. and red texas are formed using bp,kkp,mammon,rose queen,ingot cichlids x with a texas cichlid