scored a yellow blood parrot today!

[Kaliedoscope]

I don't see why anyone would dye a parrot yellow, as yellow is one of their natural colours?

Nearly all the 'low grade' parrots I've seen here in OKlahoma have faded to yellow eventually.
They are the ones black or silver or brown for sale in petsmart and wal-mart for the cheaper price than the blood parrots, I've had over ten of them for a long time, and only two didn't fade to yellow, and those just still have their baby colours. One is fading as we speak. (or as you read).

These fish were bought from several different stores, but always as "cheap" blood parrots

The point i'm trying to make is that in my experience, yellow is the easiest parrot colour to find for cheap. Of course red is easier, but Given that red parrots are less common in the breeding process, often times you have to pay out the nose for that red colour. (for example $9 unfaded vs $25 "blood" here)

So why would anyone dye a blood parrot yellow?

The only possible explanation I have is that they would be so called "jellybeans", SB Pink convicts, that end up being just white parrots which are dyed. I could possibly have a skewed view since dyed 'jellybean' fish are Illegal to sell in my state (THANK GOD!)

But still I'm baffled by how many people don't believe that this parrot could be natural, he's already demonstrated the ins and outs of his janky camera (no offense lol).... I guess this is the sad effect of the ubiquity of dyed parrots in other parts of the county. Has no one else thought of lobbying to get laws passed against this like was done here?

I know I'm kind of all over the place here, but I'll leave with you this axiom that has held true in my experience of breeding parrots

It is SO much easier to get a male midas to breed with a female parrot. Why do people even bother with yellow jellybeans?

I encourage all of you doubters that blood parrots can be that "golden' yellow colour to go pick up as many dime a dozen parrots you have the tank space for, and watch them all fade to golden yellow.

I rest my case.

 

[artes]

It doesn't look even remotely dyed. For one thing, you can see a black spot on it, which wouldn't show up if it was dyed. For another thing, the color is too perfect to be a pile of liquid ink.

 

[Kaliedoscope]

My bad, Neon yellow glowing off of a parrot... I assume dye.
In reality, its probably just your crazy camera, but the lighter color the parrot, (usually) means lower the quality.
I dont know the back-round of this fish, so I dont know what its purpose is, Usually breeders who breed light colored parrots, do so to make dying the fish easy (jellybeans). But this very well could be from some rouge parrot breeder out there perfecting breeding yellow parrots. Yellow is rather unlikely for parrots and its not the "desired" color per say, but colors may change as it grows.

I'm sorry no offense, but youve missed something here.
Think about midas genetics. All of those are contained within the blood parrot.
Ok now think about how low grade parrot production in the states at least has such redundant genetics (because of using the same breeding stock) that most parrots now are made by outcrossing to one of the parent species (beacuse of the scarcity of fertile males).

Now think about how the easiest fish to breed them to, and obviously the most ubiquitous, is the midevil in some form.

Ok now, go to the world wide midas cichlid gallery or whatever its called, that page with all the midas.

Obviously, parrots can be any of those colours.

I don't know about your experience, but I run into yellow/gold midases of this colour quite frequently.

The fact is, that "BLOOD RED" in parrots is actually the least common colour, as it is more often a trait of SRS blood way back in the breeding, and orange, yellow, "creamsicle", white, and "barred midas", are now the most common colours for parrots.

That is why they sell these colours often as culls that are then (god forbid) dyed, or sold cheaply, as referenced in my first post.

I encourage homework all around on the genetics of this fish.
But there have already been enough of those "what is a blood parrot a cross of" posts, so I encourage everyone to brush up on fundamentals in the archives