Flowerhorn Parrot x Blood Parrot Fry Growout.

[powellmacaque]

About six weeks ago, I noticed my Flowerhorn Parrot male bred with my Blood Parrot female. I’ll post pictures below (and keep you all updated), but I do have a question: what do you guys do with some of these fry thay don’t have a blood parrot body type and look to be a bit longer?

 

[Mr geophagus]

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE??!?! I MUST TRY THIS MYSELF!!!!

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

Dude none are going to have the blood parrot shape and they will all be longbodied. Might get a semi shorbody but definately no parrot types. I feed culls to larger fish and larger culls get frozen and planted in the garden.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE??!?! I MUST TRY THIS MYSELF!!!!

There are over 10 years of examples of these breedings on mfk alone.

 

[CrazyKoiCracker]

GROW SOME OUT AND KEEP US UPDATED. Hybrids are fun and parrots are thought to be sterile.

 

[CrazyKoiCracker]

There are over 10 years of examples of these breedings on mfk alone.

What happens if you continue the line?

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

What happens if you continue the line?

Possibilities are almost endless with hybrids. Isolating desired traits and keeping in mind that fertility could be scarce down the line is hard. Shortbody deformity has been proven to be a dominant trait when its "a" strain x "a" strain. Almost always recessive when mixing types. This pair may throw a few but the majority will be long bodied and quite bland. Easy to cull a spawn like this.

 

[CrazyKoiCracker]

Possibilities are almost endless with hybrids. Isolating desired traits and keeping in mind that fertility could be scarce down the line is hard. Shortbody deformity has been proven to be a dominant trait when its "a" strain x "a" strain. Almost always recessive when mixing types. This pair may throw a few but the majority will be long bodied and quite bland. Easy to cull a spawn like this.

Bland is a relative term. If I had this tank I’d pick my favorite and sell the rest to a less-than-savy LFS. Then see if there’s anything fun.

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

Bland is indeed a relative term. I guess seeing thousands of these things grow out has hardened me off to the look of an ugly grey fish with weird face shape etc. My very first spawn of sb carpintis x kkp I ended up with 7 shortbody fry out of 450.
And passing off worthless hybrid culls to any lfs is a scumbag move. Make the fish, deal with what youve made.

 

[d3ssen27]

About six weeks ago, I noticed my Flowerhorn Parrot male bred with my Blood Parrot female. I’ll post pictures below (and keep you all updated), but I do have a question: what do you guys do with some of these fry thay don’t have a blood parrot body type and look to be a bit longer?

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I got some fry from my male SRD and female parrot