I want to buy parrot chilchid

[RD.]

Not all BPs are deformed, or genetically weak specimens. Mine has a very normal body, head, and mouth shape, and close as I can tell she has got to be closing in on 10 yrs of age. Normal mouth, and has teeth to prove it. Mean as hell when she wants to be. Just recently has begun to decline in health. Very interesting behavioural traits, compared to many fish that I have owned over the years. Don’t let the haters scare you away.

 

[RD.]

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[RD.]

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[RD.]

The info in this sticky may help.

Parrot Cichlid Info sheet: Blood Parrots, King Kong Parrots, and Kirin Parrots.

Blood Parrot Cichlid Description Common Names: Blood Parrot Cichlid, Red Blood Parrot, Red Parrot Cichlid, Red Parrot Fish The Blood Parrot Cichlid is a hybrid fish that was first created in Taiwan in the mid to late 1980's. Its parentage has been highly disputed, but the most commonly...

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[duanes]

While there are "some" less deformed versions out there, I have seen more and more , with even distorted versions with altered and trimmed fins, and branded and tatooed bodies.
To me this type of public demand only leads to more and more experimentation and deformations, in the future generations.
so me the rammifications for abuse are real, and palpable, and why I am so adamant, about not contributing to these popular fads.
I know it' s probably a losing battle these days.

 

[RD.]

Yeah man, you lost that battle over a thousand years ago when the Chinese began domesticating goldfish.

Flip that same coin, and many people could consider netting fish out of their native waters, and forcing them to live out the rest of their life in a glass box, if they even survive the collection process, to be a form of abuse.

 

[Midwater]

There is a difference between selective breeding and hybridizing.

 

[RD.]

No kidding. Not sure I get your point? Non hybridized deformed fish are more acceptable than hybridized deformed fish?

 

[RD.]

Btw….. many of the designer fish, are a product of both.

 

[Midwater]

Yeah man, you lost that battle over a thousand years ago when the Chinese began domesticating goldfish.

No kidding. Not sure I get your point? Non hybridized deformed fish are more acceptable than hybridized deformed fish?

Seems to have taken a lot longer to end up with horrendous bubble head goldfish than horrendous BPs.

I wouldn't keep either.