Nice find. Would love to have one. If you look in the Hybrid forum you might find this massive thread that has a bunch of hybrids, one of them being a red head x parrot.
synspilum X Red parrot
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I have a whole litter of these!
Aww its great to know that more are out there.
Some of my fav. fish right now.
Camphilophus I saw this pic. On your photo page and I'm the guy that left a msg saying "what is this"? Because at the time, one of mine looked like yours. He's since changed rank so he changed his colours.
Mine aren't pure though, they're actually just culls from a blood parrot farm that turned out to have the syns. colours, so they sold them cheap (thank god they didn't dye them). Because of this though, I think they have a little more midas in them, in that two of them can change to striped (when they sleep, etc), and one of these can turn deep brown. (also I have two yellow that came from the same place) He's a pretty one with yellow eyes, brown and black striped body and a tail with pearls like those (camph's) only much brighter. Some of them (some pre-faders, others changed, some I don't believe are faders) have flower lines and red bellies, and extensive pearling and syns colours.
I don't have pictures of them because they're fast and my camera sucks. I have some blurry ones but that was before any of them faded.
They're still juvenilles, but I intend to get them together, probably with other colours of parrots or vieja (does anyone know where to find them in OK?), so no answer for you about fertility, but I would imagine most of yours are if they are only 1/2 parrot. You'd probably have good luck with the most "fishy" looking ones.
They are very social, but they are a bit skiddish to sudden movements and such. But will probably get better once they get a little bigger (mine are still babies)
Actually these are pretty easy to find, not 100% like yours but to find parrots with a high % of syns in them. Just go anywhere very low quality parrots are sold. Walmart sometimes has them as they often buy parrot culls from breeders (or so i am told). As syns are in the heritage of all blood parrots (I believe its actually SRS x (Midas x RD) for many generations) many will have syns features. Then all you need to do is find the ones with the most. UNfortunateley however, many places in the past have used these to make jellybeans. Not in oklahoma though, where it is now illegal
we should make a synsi-parrot club here. There's already three members.
Sorry for the long post, but I do love my Synsi-fish
Aww its great to know that more are out there.
Some of my fav. fish right now.
Camphilophus I saw this pic. On your photo page and I'm the guy that left a msg saying "what is this"? Because at the time, one of mine looked like yours. He's since changed rank so he changed his colours.
Mine aren't pure though, they're actually just culls from a blood parrot farm that turned out to have the syns. colours, so they sold them cheap (thank god they didn't dye them). Because of this though, I think they have a little more midas in them, in that two of them can change to striped (when they sleep, etc), and one of these can turn deep brown. (also I have two yellow that came from the same place) He's a pretty one with yellow eyes, brown and black striped body and a tail with pearls like those (camph's) only much brighter. Some of them (some pre-faders, others changed, some I don't believe are faders) have flower lines and red bellies, and extensive pearling and syns colours.
I don't have pictures of them because they're fast and my camera sucks. I have some blurry ones but that was before any of them faded.
They're still juvenilles, but I intend to get them together, probably with other colours of parrots or vieja (does anyone know where to find them in OK?), so no answer for you about fertility, but I would imagine most of yours are if they are only 1/2 parrot. You'd probably have good luck with the most "fishy" looking ones.
They are very social, but they are a bit skiddish to sudden movements and such. But will probably get better once they get a little bigger (mine are still babies)
Actually these are pretty easy to find, not 100% like yours but to find parrots with a high % of syns in them. Just go anywhere very low quality parrots are sold. Walmart sometimes has them as they often buy parrot culls from breeders (or so i am told). As syns are in the heritage of all blood parrots (I believe its actually SRS x (Midas x RD) for many generations) many will have syns features. Then all you need to do is find the ones with the most. UNfortunateley however, many places in the past have used these to make jellybeans. Not in oklahoma though, where it is now illegal
we should make a synsi-parrot club here. There's already three members.
Sorry for the long post, but I do love my Synsi-fish
Bluey;4435413; said:
Haha okay, heres my really dodgy picture.
This is one of my favourite one because he has a perfect fish face and completeley formed mouth, but a parrot-like body.
This however, was before he faded. The important things about his vieja-ness you can see here is the spangling on his tail (which is brilliant and bright, although it dosen't show up really in the picture) and his red belly. In this picture he still kind of has the RD juvie colours, but he's lost that now. After this picture was taken, he grew into some synspillum colours, rainbow sheen and red belly. Much like camphilophus's fish that he posted but not as much red. Now, however, he has grown into his aggression or whatever, and became mean and showy, and when that happened, he basically turned bumblebee colours. Yellow with brown stripes, slightly red sheen in belly, and more spangling on tail with yellows and blues. (also there is some striking worming in yellow and brown under his chin, don't know where that came from) I have another fish that is similar and It has faded in a similar way. Another one hasn't yet faded but has blue dots along the juvie line. Sorry If any of that was redundant from the post above. Obviously the other fish in this picture is a regular red parrot.
Big picture
Closeup
RIP the baby convict in the lower right hand corner of this picture!
Killed by a tiny flowerhorn fry, lol. Very small violence, but none the less gruesome.
You will be missed!
Killed by a tiny flowerhorn fry, lol. Very small violence, but none the less gruesome.
You will be missed!
Also, I have this picture that I found, I downloaded it to keep as reference to what that cross looks like.
I think it was from a thread posted on mfk, because I remember reading the story and seeing pictures of the parents and process. I hope whoever posted it will chime in
I think it was from a thread posted on mfk, because I remember reading the story and seeing pictures of the parents and process. I hope whoever posted it will chime in
ßDefiniteley man they vary alot and they copy eachother when they can. Nice fish.
Half my family is australian if you're up for an international trade though, we have unique and interesting fish, I'd like to do that if you're up just to keep the gene pool going strong
Half my family is australian if you're up for an international trade though, we have unique and interesting fish, I'd like to do that if you're up just to keep the gene pool going strong
