KKBP? Regular? Low quality? what would you say?

[~T~]

So I'll start by saying the whole blood parrot grading kinda confuses me and that is after many years of owning various parrots. To me, what seems like a KK (ish) type to others should have been culled. ANYWAYs today my lfs had a a tank of these guys and I bought one. What is everyone's opinion? The smaller yellow ones in the tank were the normal parrot looking types.

Thx!

Oh and mine has already made itself at home in my tank that mostly contains male cichlids. The only fish that seems to have any problem (and that is minimal) is my female parrot ,who is also kind of the boss of the tank. Signs are pointing to it being female but time will tell.

The one I chose

 

[Ihsnshaik]

I don't see any King Kong parrots? Just blood parrots

 

[dmopar74]

Bp

 

[~T~]

So a high quality regular BP is the more squashed up and parrot mouthed type yeh? Would these be low quality BPs then? Most of these looked like slightly shorter bodied midevils. What constitutes a standard KK? (not red mammon).

 

[Ihsnshaik]

People don't go by quality by how deformed they look lol but at the color like purple red is he highest quality to yellow being the lowest grade. Google King Kong they look different

 

[~T~]

People don't go by quality by how deformed they look lol but at the color like purple red is he highest quality to yellow being the lowest grade. Google King Kong they look different

But I have read that on this very forum. Please link me to what a proper KK should look like as just googling it shows anything from normal parrots to mammons and with a variety of colours.

For example. My fish looks pretty much the same as the middle picture labled as KK. Min is a little darker red/orange.

http://www.mypalhs.com/forums/showthread.php?153117-How-to-ID-KingKOng-Parrot

 

[AlphaTintu]

As far as I know, KKP does not have the mouth like a normal Blood Parrot, the triangle shape, which I believe because of the variety of experiment and cross breeding.. I am not good at parrots but just read many threads and forums from internet when I used to keep some parrots...

I believe, the images have the perfect example of KKPs... Stolen from net though!!

 

[Ihsnshaik]

But I have read that on this very forum. Please link me to what a proper KK should look like as just googling it shows anything from normal parrots to mammons and with a variety of colours.

For example. My fish looks pretty much the same as the middle picture labled as KK. Min is a little darker red/orange.

http://www.mypalhs.com/forums/showthread.php?153117-How-to-ID-KingKOng-Parrot

Sorry I meant by the grading system yes king kong parrots are not as deformed as blood parrots and mammons look like baloons with a nuchal hump.

All I can tell you I've seen all 3 in tanks and its a clear indication which ones are which. Yours is a juvenile so you can't just say its a king kong parrot unless advertised even if it was those parrots in the pictures to me are all blood parrots. Usually if they can close their mouths like midas/red devils they are at least a KKP if not a regular BP. The pictures suggest it looks more BP than KKP.

Anyways it doesn't matter if it is or not its a beautiful fish.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

People don't go by quality by how deformed they look lol but at the color like purple red is he highest quality to yellow being the lowest grade. Google King Kong they look different

There you go again bud. Body type is indeed key to conformation.
Just call them bp. When you see a tank of unsorted ones like that the less parrot ones are lower quality but actually better fish. The humped ones are better quality Bp because they better conform to what a BP is but they aren't exactly a better fish.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

And it's is not correct to call the ones with functional mouths from this unsorted tank kkp. They are probably siblings or closely related.