Trying to Breed Blood Parrot

[Luckyunblock]

I have two Blood Parrot Cichlids. The bright orange one laid eggs about two weeks ago. I know most male blood parrots are infertile, so I decided to try and breed her with a Green Texas Cichlid. I took these photos tonight, this has been happening for about two days now. Any idea what’s going on with them? Not sure if the light orange is a male or female.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I have two Blood Parrot Cichlids. The bright orange one laid eggs about two weeks ago. I know most male blood parrots are infertile, so I decided to try and breed her with a Green Texas Cichlid. I took these photos tonight, this has been happening for about two days now. Any idea what’s going on with them? Not sure if the light orange is a male or female. View attachment 1412280View attachment 1412281

The parrots are paired with each other and are defending their eggs from the Texas. If you want the Texas to have a chance of pairing with the female parrot you will have to remove the other parrot from the tank as fish will almost always spawn with their own kind if they have a member of the same specie in the same tank. Also do you know if the Texas is male or female?

 

[Luckyunblock]

The parrots are paired with each other and are defending their eggs from the Texas. If you want the Texas to have a chance of pairing with the female parrot you will have to remove the other parrot from the tank as fish will almost always spawn with their own kind if they have a member of the same specie in the same tank. Also do you know if the Texas is male or female?

Thanks so much for the reply. I’ll move the other parrot to a different tank. Supposedly the Texas is a male. Just got him about a week ago from my local fish store.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

Thanks so much for the reply. I’ll move the other parrot to a different tank. Supposedly the Texas is a male. Just got him about a week ago from my local fish store.

Have ya tried venting it yet just to be sure?

 

[Red Cichlids]

The Texas looks like a female to me from the dark color on the dorsal fin. The lighter colored parrot looks to be a male, but as you noted, they are almost always infertile.

 

[Justepic]

The Texas looks like a female to me from the dark color on the dorsal fin. The lighter colored parrot looks to be a male, but as you noted, they are almost always infertile.

Curious, because the blood parrots are hybrids and can't be found in the wild as well as can't be bred, how do shops get them in? How have they not died out if the males are always infertile, do you cross the breed the females or something?

 

[Red Cichlids]

Parrots are probably f1 hybrids between amphilophus (midas or red devils) and viejas (synspilum/melanura and/or bifasciatus). The females are usually fertile, so can be bred back to the parent breeds or other cichlids such as trimaculatum, which is what I believe made the early flowerhorns.

 

[Ruturaj]

Curious, because the blood parrots are hybrids and can't be found in the wild as well as can't be bred, how do shops get them in? How have they not died out if the males are always infertile, do you cross the breed the females or something?

They are generation on hybrids, (I assume) they keep making them in similar way

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