Thinking about picking up some blood parrots off of craigslist but Ive seen some that lost most of their orange color and look white-ish. Is that normal for an old blood parrot or a sign that they were low quality ones that may not have faded to their bright orange.
Do all blood parrots lose their orange as they get older?
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Not knowng any better...my wife bought me a jelly bean parrot 6 years ago..it lost its dyed color within the first 6 months. Its now a light pink to white color...I have had it for a while, but has always looked kinda washed out.
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i have had my BP for a long while and it has always been like a pink with a creamy pink whitish color covering the under body up to the bottom of the gills. i have posted pic of mine just the other day so if u want to take a look.
Mine that I purchased from Petsmart were really orange when they were young. But they are a more whitish color now.
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I think petsmart injects hormones into there blood parrots to enhance coloring. Then as they get older this fades away.
This should give you some thoughts, here are my kids now they are in my 2500g pond. They still have same or darker red/orange color 
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This should give you some thoughts, here are my kids now they are in my 2500g pond. They still have same or darker red/orange color
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Nice. Where did you buy yours?
That would suck if Petsmart did inject hormones. That's the only place I know that sells decent sized BPs.
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