I'm not intentionally trying to breed hybrids but my male calico/marbled convict and female parrot had babies and now I'm wondering how big they get before they start to fade or do they keep looking similar to black convicts? Also I have only kept about 6 and wondering if they would try to breed with anyone else in the tank, that is if they can?
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Also I recently sold 4 out of five of my convicts including the father and kept a female convict all of which were calico/marbled.
convict and parrot hybrids are called Jellybeans or Jellybean Parrots. They generally are like little white parrots with a little less deformed face. I have actualyl seen some males with nuchal humps. They were really common about 10 years ago I haven't seen them in a while. treat them exactly like convicts.
also some of the young will probably have varying degrees of body shapes, Most parrot hybrids vary from full length to parrot length in the same brood.
also some of the young will probably have varying degrees of body shapes, Most parrot hybrids vary from full length to parrot length in the same brood.
The babies look similar but different compared to a convict and even though the father was a marbled/calico convict the babies look like a black convict.
This is actually wrong. The jellybeans you speak of are actually pure blooded short body convicts. Parrots cannot carry the recessive pink convict gene
I've bred con to parrot and the resulting offspring mostly looked like chunky convicts. Some had a browinsh base colour, almost making them look like little barred midas cichlids. Only one of mine got any orange in it and would probably faded, had it not jumped to it's death one day.
Here are a few pics of mine and a few my friend bred. The father of mine was actually a short body pink convict.
honestly I was just quoting common knowledge, its what everyone was saying a few years back. Never tried it myself. Its nice to know that someone actually tested the whole thing, I actually like those parrot Cons, they are pretty interesting looking.
Honestly the Severum x RD was bull**** so i should have expected the same for Jellybeans. Especially that female JB parrots exhibited all the coloration of female convicts