please help me id this fish

[biohazardcustomz]

hi i had this fish givin to me to save his life. he was in with several larger african cichlids and they beat him up pretty badly. i was told that it was dark colored and would mock tank mates colors. he was in with convicts for a while and he got stripes like them. but when he went in with africans, they beat him up. he is MUCH better now. when i got him he was having problems swimming,fins all ripped up and would always hide under stuff.he is still light colored now which i am assuming is from the africans trying to eat him alive. but i still dont know what kind of fish it is.

 

[we4wieners]

Its a blood parrot. he will lose the black once he is no longer under stress. I have several parrots. he will brighten up and become a nice tankmate.

 

[biohazardcustomz]

but i saw pictures of him before and he looked nothing like a blood parrot. he was dark grey and black striped. i see what your saying from the pictures he looks to be one. but sadly to say that is his raw skin from being attacked. he isnt supposed to be that color.

 

[fatdoggy89]

thats deff a bloodparrot, maybe its a hybrid with a con or st, if it had black stripes in the past but its most deff a bloodparrot they turn darker when stressd as he gets more comfortable the black coloration should go away

 

[stuckinthemiddle]

He's just peeling.

 

[Kalen]

Thats definitely a Blood Parrot, not a Blood Parrot cross. Juvenile Blood Parrots go through a peeling process where they fade from their juvenile colors to the adult orange color. I bought three juveniles a few months back; one was stripped like a con, one was solid black, and the other was marbled. All three are either orange or in the process of turning orange now.

 

[FishingOut]

These fish have trouble swimming because of its odd hybrid body shape. This "raw skin" you see is him changing from his black color when hes young to his adult orange colors. Soon he will lose all black and be bright orange. Cichlids dont try to match the fish around them. Overall he looks pretty healthy, fins just minorly frayed.

 

[moodydoody]

Yup, back a while ago I bought what I thought was a strangely colored parrot but as it grew it peeled to a bright orange. That being said, I have also seen some people with parrots which stay a black/orange mottled color like yours their whole life. Not sure what makes them do that. There is also Killin parrots (or something like that) which are parrotXflowerhorn mixes and look like parrots with the coloration of a flowerhorn.

 

[biohazardcustomz]

ok ive looked into it more and i think i understand. but blood red parrots are different than regular blood parrots? right?

 

[moodydoody]

Just more of a red color than an orange color to my understanding. "low" quality parrots are less red and can even be more white but they are all the same kind of fish. I would check the hybrid section as they know a lot more about these kinds of fish.