Parrots?
- Thread starter robfishies
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Oh yeah they are mean alright. My last was quite the glassbanger. He would scrape his teeth on the glass and head bump it.
Mine recently paired with my female con, and he has finally started going for the leporinus that’s been the boss of the tank for over a year. I can only imagine what level of aggression the children have...
Looks like a 'devil' parrot 75% devil, 25% parrot. Maybe!
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It’s been about a month and let me tell you i am confused as heck LOL. One is completely yellow/pink while the other one is i don’t even know. Here take a look for your self
Seems perfectly natural to me. BP's are made using midas as one of the building blocks. Well with midas ya can find a barred (wild) type coloration and the white-red (and any color in-between) color varients which are also regularly found in the wild. It's just a matter of whether or not it has the "Fader" gene active. The fader gene kind of works along the same lines as the leusism gene in the sense that it only partially removes colors, pretty much always the darker colors but can still rarely affect the lighter colors as well.
With your lil guys, you just got a mixed bag a traits between them both. Nothing wrong with that, some ppl like them mono-colored while others like em multi-colored. Personally I like the barred one the most, looks closest to the natural coloration (before the color mutations). It's kind of neat tho that their ancestors, the midas, developed these color mutations without the help of man kind.
Yeah it's just because most ppl want a classic orange BP so sadly most of the barred fry, that don't fade right away, get culled out just to make more room for the faded fry. If your 2 end up pairing up and breeding with each other down the road ya should get a good healthy mixed of barred and faded fry out of it. Well that's if the male, if there is one, turns out to be fertile. Male BP's are notorious for being infertile but every now and then someone gets lucky and finds a fertile male.
