Parrot Cichlid ID - And Your Advice Needed!

[Ihsnshaik]

Yep you are right. These guys are short body pink convicts. Unusual that they have parrot style mouths but I've seen plenty of convicts (short body and regular) with this deformity. They are great little fish actually. I saw some short body calico cons here recently but I don't have a tank setup at the moment I've actually bred one of these to a parrot and as you say, none of the young were pink.

Marbled or calico is a mutation thought it was a hybrid fish but it's not

 

[eternity302]

Wow! Finally some people are replying! Thank you.
But i was more awaiting your thoughts on those fish labelled as mammon!~ But I kinda went through what Ihsnshaik other threads and read that Red Mammons have closed mouth to begin with. So already kinda figured those ain't red mammons. Doubting that $99.00 price is even worth it.

These beans I keep just keep breeding. I've threw 8 juvenile in a 5 gallon quarantine tank... I still end up with two batches... i have no clue how they even survive. They constantly breed.
As for deformity, i noticed that one batch i am currently raising in a 40b, approximately 5-10 of them have deformed spine, it's like a camel hump back.. will be culling soon enough...

 

[eternity302]

This is one of my batches. Two young juveniles. Gave ALOT of fry in this one.


Here's two cheap parrots with that giant bean i have. Raising them together. The parrots are much more aggresive than the bean. The beans are not very aggressive at all.


Here are another parents when I first started keeping them about 10 months ago.


They are now triple the size. But too lazy to take new pictures. Especially when you have a ****ty cell phone camera like me.

Thought I share photos instead. As reading text alone is boring!

These beans will breed like convicts, before the beans reach maturity, the parents will already start breeding a new batch. The male will also beat the female up if she does not breed with him, but damage is kept minimal. I have yet to see a male actually eat any fry. I always end up with a bunch.

And as for aggression. There is nearly no aggression from these beans, they hardly fight one another.

Thank you for reading!

 

[~T~]

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This is one of my batches. Two young juveniles. Gave ALOT of fry in this one.

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Here's two cheap parrots with that giant bean i have. Raising them together. The parrots are much more aggresive than the bean. The beans are not very aggressive at all.

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Here are another parents when I first started keeping them about 10 months ago.

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They are now triple the size. But too lazy to take new pictures. Especially when you have a ****ty cell phone camera like me.

Thought I share photos instead. As reading text alone is boring!

These beans will breed like convicts, before the beans reach maturity, the parents will already start breeding a new batch. The male will also beat the female up if she does not breed with him, but damage is kept minimal. I have yet to see a male actually eat any fry. I always end up with a bunch.

And as for aggression. There is nearly no aggression from these beans, they hardly fight one another.

Thank you for reading!

They breed like convicts because they are convicts. If you breed a short body to a regular convict you will get all regular convicts as the short body gene is recessive. I had a male that would always breed with a regular female con in a cichlid community tank and the fry would usually get eaten. But now and again some would survive and grown on in the tank. I kept one of his sons that ended up nearly 3 times bigger than him. I have pics somewhere.