Snow White Polar Parrot Cichlids

[Deadeye]

Everything short-bodied is now referred to as "parrot" because casual fish hobbyists have come to recognize that shape over the past 10 - 15 years. So that's how they are marketed. At my local LFS I have seen parrot convicts, parrot flowerhorn, etc. and they are just deformed, short-bodied culls with messed up heads and mouths and spines.

Someone at my LFS bred a parrot and a convict, accidentally, then traded in the pair and all the fry. I bought one of the fry. They looked like convicts, or convicts with orange parrot coloration, like this. Even the ones that came out short-bodied were not so extreme that they looked like potbellied parrots.

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That is actually a really nice looking fish!

Are you sure the parrot flowerhorns weren’t Kirin parrots (fh x bp) or were they obviously just sb flowerhorns?

 

[d3ssen27]

Wow..so much information...truth be told, even the LFS was not sure what they were.. here is a little video of the hybrids..