what is this hybrid? was told flwr x parrot
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Thread is getting off on track here. Anyways, that fish is a fader bonsai with a cut tail. I'm highly against anything like that. Although that fish may have been crossed with a BP or KKP at some times, but straight cross BP or KKP doesn't count get the outcome of that. It's more of a kirin/killin if you were to cross BP/KKP for the first few generations. A bonsai would take much more effort...
The difference between a killin/kirrin and a bonsai/short body FH is whatever the breeder of that fish says it is. Sorry but thats it and thats that, they are hybrids, you will get every "grade" in almost every breeding. The phenotype's are not set, variations begin to occur the moment you cross out of the species. I have seen "kirrin" and "bonsai" phenotypes from every conceivable breeding, to me there is no specific pattern or method to obtaining either one. If it looks like a parrot then it is if it looks like a bonsai it is.
I have seen FH bred to kkp and the offspring were considered quality FH. How can this be? The FH was not bred to a FH...just a lowly kkp, but yet the fry are considered the same grade as the FH father and priced the same?
Who has decided what is flowerhorn, bonsai FH or kirrin? And how do they tell? Is there a genetic test that determines which type they are? No? Thats what I thought, in other words if it looks like one it is one.
