Parrot fish Hybrids..

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Miles

Miles

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I know there has been alot of speculation of the infamous 'Parrot Fish'.. Where did it come from? What was crossed? Who knows! I have heard so many 'hypothesis' of what cross this fish actually is. I sure would like some factual information on this :)

This is what I do know..

Males are sterile.. Am I wrong? Has anyone ever fertilized a pure parrot fish?

Females can produce fertile eggs...

How do I know? I have bred a pink convict with a parrot fish on multiple occasions ;) The babies turned out like normal convicts with slightly odd-shaped bodies.

Here is what is interesting.. I have the parrot in with a group of cichlids right now, including the pink convict. However, she is definately trying to spawn with the Midas cichlid. Perhaps I could go ahead and try to create a king kong parrot? Just to see.. I am not a huge fan of hybridization, but I am always curious if I could do it and what the fry would look like. Ugh. Of the pink convict/parrot batch, I only kept 2 free to grow out, which were the largest of the group.

Heres a pic of the big male offspring from the pink convict/parrot cross..

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There are fertile males, but there are many infertile ones also
 
That is a not bad looking cross you got there, I do not mind other hybrids as much as I do Parrots and King Kongs... think they are super ugly.
 
i to have been able to breed parrots but it was not with another parrot it was with a convict......and i heard somewhere whether its true or not idk that midas parrots they were breed with midas cichlids and red devils and to make the blood red it was convicts and red devils once again sum1 told me this but idk whether or not it to be true if i am wrong please correct me
 
Parrots, as stated previously, are not always sterile, which happens a lot with hybridization. They were bred from the midas cichlid and possibly convicts, salvini, texas. More than likely they have the genes of all these and many more. Regardless, some are pretty and some are ugly. I do not know where I stand regarding these fish, but they are interesting.
 
I would lean more towards Convicts and Severums, than Salvini or Texas.. You would think they would get some of that 'speckeling' in their body. I have a parrot fish that has the exact same markings as a convict.
 
I have heard a lot of info about what is in a blood parrot. Fish such as convicts, red devils, midas and severum.

I myself don't much care for hybrids because they make it harder to indetify and find true specimens of the various species. Africans are a pain in my butt. Bloodparrots are ok because there is nothing I can confuse them with.:)
 
I saw a tank of Red Parrots, while on vacation, and one Red Devil :hearts: ...

OR WAS IT...

From the front it looked Just like a Red Devil....
then as it turned around...
IT HAD A PARROT BODY...
I was Horrified!
I wasn't expecting that AT ALL.
It was disgusting.
 
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