I actually got these parrots to grow out and breed with my ZZ flowerhorn male lol. If the unfaded turned out to be female would she breed w flowerhorn and would the fry be good quality?
Parrots?
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Lol complete guessing game there. You'll have so many different looking fry. Your essentially crossing 2 hybrids with different roots together and ending up with a huge mixed bag of traits from different ancestors. I would honestly say go for it, I'd love to see all of the possibilities that present itself from that kind of pairing. Granted you can get similar results with the faded one as well, she still has her natural color genes it's just her fader gene is actively blocking out certain colors from visually appearing.
Now you got me all excited LOL. Nah but in all seriousness that actually sounds like a good idea just for the first breeding spawn to check the fertility of my ZZ. But i have no clue at what age parrots can breed
Me neither lol. I would just youtube "how to breed BP's" and they should give ya a good example of what size to start at, I would think. I would assume it's similar to the size and age FH's breed at.
My parrot is ready to breed, he is probably 1-1.5 years old, about 5 inches.
Definitely like the barred one, you don’t see that a lot, but he has the colors of a festae.
Breeding it with a flowerhorn is gonna be hard to predict the outcome, but of you look up Kirin parrot (fh x parrot) that gives a pretty good idea.
Definitely like the barred one, you don’t see that a lot, but he has the colors of a festae.
Breeding it with a flowerhorn is gonna be hard to predict the outcome, but of you look up Kirin parrot (fh x parrot) that gives a pretty good idea.
It’s rare, but happens (how else do we get more bps in the first place?). Mine’s a male and I’ve gotten fertile eggs.
BPs are amphilophus citrinellus x vieja synspilum. That's how we get more in the first place. and proof? because that really is a rarity. I haven't heard of any legitimate 100% proven cases.
You can buy proven breeder males online. They go for ridiculous prices, atleast I tink $300+ is ridiculously expensive for a BP. Proven male breeders are hard to come by but not impossible. And yes while the majority of BP's out on the market are from the Amphilophus x Veija mix, ya can find some that were made from just 2 BP's, most ppl just don't feel a need to mention whether the fry were from a Amphilophus x Veija mix or just 2 BP's as the market for em is the same either way. It's not like they would get more $ for em just since at the end of the day it's a BP either way.
There isn’t any set parentage for bps, Midas x synspilum is just the most likely. They do breed parrots to get more parrots, though I believe the males are often injected with hormones to raise fertility.
I didn’t believe mine would be fertile, but the eggs turned brown when they laid. Convict’s been eating all of the eggs, but the eggs show fertility beforehand.
It is one in a million, but it has been recorded. This one is simply one of those.
