Gender Bender Blood Parrot!!!

[FINWIN]

There was a lot going on in the fish room last week with my Severum. Welp, this past Saturday I got another shock. My 'male' parrot Kong decided to switch!

The pic below is from last year. Dated 4/1/19, on April Fool's day (figures). Kong never laid eggs and his 'part' is a pointy triangle. Stayed that way, never changed.

 

[FINWIN]

Fast forward to last Saturday. I go to clean filters and find this. WTF.

 

[FINWIN]

The freshly laid eggs are in the lower right corner. He (um, she) had just started!

So it seems I have two girls now, Kong and Patch. Interestingly enough my two most aggressive parrots bar none. Kong didn't lay a huge load of eggs and pretty much cleaned up everything herself, finishing up last night. So now the name is "Miss Kong."


So of course now Patch is gearing up. In the pic below she's puffing out again, her tube is dropping and her nuchal hump is back. Probably in the next 3 days she'll probably go. Patch tends to lay massive amounts of eggs so I'm always cleaning up after her. Did a little bit of research on this and curiously enough gender switch isn't rare at all for fish although some species are known for it.

I swear its never a dull moment with these cichlids. You can't recover from one crazy situation without going head on into another!

 

[fishhead0103666]

This hobby keeps you on your toes, you never know what to expect next.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Lol kind of reminds me of my FH I got atm. Thought that she was a he because of the golfball on its forehead but turned out that he was a she when I took here out and vented her.