Thanks man, I finally had a good chance to pick up some high quality specimens. I have never seen a picture of a standard parrot with blue in the fins or spangling. If you have any pictures I would love to see it. I had no idea it was even a trait of these fish. I went to a really good store with the intention of picking up parrots I did a lot of reading up on the differences between KKP and the other groups of parrots.
The sticky here on MFK says that there are many different morphs of KK and regular parrots but lists the main differences between the two, so I looked specifically for fish that carried those traits in an attempt to try and select a KKP. He has very large blue eyes, barely notched head, perfectly closing mouth etc. There were several tanks of Grade A orange, Grade A purple and then some low quality regular parrots that held novelty values like white cream colored ones or ones with a lot of black splotches. parrots are my favorite and honestly I could have picked up a whole bunch if I didnt have self control haha.
I picked my orange one from one of the grade A orange tanks that didn`t have overly deformed features, he was without a doubt the best pick in the store form-wise. I`m interested to see how he turns out, I`ve kept a lot of parrots over the years including a big pair of KKP andsome low quality ones with ordinary mouths but longer less rounded bodys. Without a doubt my favorite species, I`ll try and keep an update on them
