Jason_S;3170835; said:Jellybean convicts are not short bodied convicts...they are a cross between blood parrots and pink convicts. Breeding farms wanted a way to breed blood parrots but this is very difficult because the majority of males are sterile. Females, however, can usually breed with other species, most commonly male midas or RD.
However, because of the high fertility rate of convicts, someone got the idea to cross fertile female blood parrots with male Pink cons. This threw fry that had a much higher percentage of fertile males. These are sometimes dyed but often are sold in the pink coloration they are usually born with as you see in the pics.
Some of the fry have more of a blood parrot look while others look more like pink cons. You can see the differences though between the fish above and pure cons if you look close enough. The mouth looks to be a little higher than it should be and the body is proportionally rounder than a normal convict.
I do believe these to be hybrids.
I, personally, don't believe these are hybrids. There are short-bodied strains of fish out there, GT, Molly, flagfish, kissing gourami, etc. That breed true despite not being crossed to a BP.
I never noticed a shortage of Bloodparrots before "jellybean" cons came around so whatever "their" secret is to breeding them will stay theirs. I don't think JB cons are it.
If you've ever spawned a "jellybean" or short-bodied convict to a regular convict they will result in regular convict offspring. No odd hybrid looking throwbacks. Males are not sterile.
