I have been interested in purchasing mammon cichlids lately. I found a listing on eBay from extreme exotic fishes out Arizona that have a listing of king mammon cichlids for $25 each that are not colored up yet. My question is from all the reading I've done is that mammons and King Kong parrots are the best of the best by cherry picking out blood red parrot fry...the same as selectively culling flowerhorn fry as they grow out. So how would I know theses are actual king mammon fry and not plain old blood parrot pass offs with out waiting for them to grow out?
Help with purchasing mammon cichlids
- Thread starter Tripplebeards
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At that price, they are not true mammon, probably not even king kong parrots. To get an actual Mammon, I'm pretty sure there's only one place that sells them. King kong parrots are a little easier to get a hold of.
I bought some last summer...not true Mammons...they come with a certificate and are only bred at one farm... Google Happy Farm Mammon... I will say that they are very nice KKP with pretty decent red, not the run of the mill orange ones. There are about 20 threads on here for Mammons and all of them usually end in a debacle for the OP...all true Mammon come with a certificate of authnenticity and a microchip embedded in them from Happy Farm. I like the ones I got from Tony, but the advertising as Mammons is quite misleading. Good luck.
It looks like in the photos they used a red flag or photo shopped them being the water in the buckets have a red tinge and so do the skin on the persons arms who's holding them.
Use the search fetaure in the FH section here on MFK and educate yourself, BEFORE you open your wallet. This would be a good place to start. http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?596592-Supa-King-Kong-Parrot-Bruiser
Good luck
Why is everyone always so caught up on the name of hybrid fish? My rule of thumb with a hybrid --If you like it--buy it for looks not the name because in the end no one really cares what you call it --a mutt is a mutt. Can't church it up.
After reading the thread RD posted I've learned more about this hybrid then I cared too..I've also taken from it that you won't find a quality true red mammon for $25.00. But If you like what that seller is offering, get the fish, and enjoy it.
After reading the thread RD posted I've learned more about this hybrid then I cared too..I've also taken from it that you won't find a quality true red mammon for $25.00. But If you like what that seller is offering, get the fish, and enjoy it.
oh yeah? I got mine free. No certificate.
Post the one you got with certificate.
The piece of paper is nothing if your fish don't look good.
She's 8"^
and oh yeah? Here's a totally different 4" baby that got murdered. One of my very few favorites. Price is almost free and no certificate.
Those who need assurance, go buy certificate and super glue/silicone it to your fish so you feel good about your fish K? Still your fish will not change its looks. Trust
[video=youtube;pI4Ph40wCh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4Ph40wCh0[/video]
and oh yeah? Here's a totally different 4" baby that got murdered. One of my very few favorites. Price is almost free and no certificate.
Those who need assurance, go buy certificate and super glue/silicone it to your fish so you feel good about your fish K? Still your fish will not change its looks. Trust
[video=youtube;pI4Ph40wCh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4Ph40wCh0[/video]
I never got one with a certificate...I got mine from the same place he's talking about on Ebay...no worries though, nice fish...maybe mine will look like yours one day...I am not paying all that money for a piece of paper and agree with you on how a fish looks 100%....
Agreed, but in this case you are buying very small, juvenile fish, which are a good 18 months away from maturity. So the name "mammon" is being used as a marketing tool, to lure consumers in with the name, and not the quality of the strain of fish. The end result is many consumers are buying fish with the notion that they are getting "mammon" quality fish, and after spending many months of growing the fish out they will eventually come to find that they did not get what the seller was truly advertising.
I have no idea what AG's point is, but the reality is that most fish in the free world that represent the quality of a Happy Breed Red Mammon do not typically get bought or sold for next to nothing, anymore than a AAA grade SRT would get sold for free, or almost free. Doh! Most people on this forum have never even seen fish of this quality in person.