Yellow Blood Parrots

[HybridHerp]

tbh, I don't like 90% of the parrots I see for sale in any stores, some of them are just to the point of being absurdly notch headed

one of these days I will get pics of my parrot and my tanks online lol

 

[lilpendragon]

Now that someone has brought it up I do see that my parrots have changed color quite a bit. My first 2 parrots were purchased at petsmart as the tiny grey parrots with stripes, after getting them home they both turned bright yellow within 3 days. A few months later I added a more deep orange colored one (one of the $30 ones at petsmart in the top tank that are already orange), and I later noticed that my previously deep orange one turned more midas colored and my other 2 were no longer bright yellow.


When I first got the deep orange/red parrot (about 4 years ago)


Taken a few weeks later, you can't really tell them apart by color anymore


I added this large yellow parrot to my current tank a year or so ago, the rest of my parrots at the time were deep orange (except for 'big red')

So it appears as though they do change color to match each other, ever since I put that red parrot in the tank the others have turned a much darker orange. I never really thought about it until someone brought it up, and looking back at my old photos he appears to be correct.
This yellow one later turned dark orange like the rest. He was previously in a tank by himself and later given to me.

 

[lilpendragon]

All of my parrots except for one are originally from petsmart, and they are all orange now. You can count on it that they won't be dyed or tattooed there, a reason I'm not a fan of Pet Supermarket.