Flowerhorn Parrot x Blood Parrot Fry Growout.

[powellmacaque]

So, to be fair, most people get Blood Parrots with the assumption that breeding won't result in fry because males are infertile. As somebody who's more of a casual cichlid keeper, I wouldn't have even known where to begin looking to know that Kirin x Parrot crosses could happen.

With that being said, I'm probably going to separate the parents to prevent further breeding. I'm just wondering what I should tell people these fry are, and what to expect them to look like once they get to be about 1"-2".

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

Going to be a big mix of phenotypes. Nothing to really call them but bonsai fh x parrot fry. Believe it or not many of these fry will grow pretty large. Best will be square bodied faders.
Keep a female to breed to the male. Thats where things will get interesting.

 

[samurai.cichlid]

nice! congrats on the fertile male

 

[powellmacaque]

So as an update: my fertile male wasn’t looking too hot for about a day and then died. It’s unfortunate, but I wasn’t really set up for breeding so not a huge bummer.

Will these fry be fertile? Do I have to worry about them mating with the female?

 

[Aquatic Aggression]

Sorry that he died. The males from parrot crosses are generally infertile. Some females can be infertile also.