FishBreeder1992

I have a current breeding pair of convicts in a well established 30 gallon tank with about three hundred fry The local pet store is getting blood parrots in on thursday and I was wondering how to sex them so when my convicts are big enough I can avoid over population in my other just set up a 55 gallon because I am going to keep maybe two of four of the fry to breed I have a thing set up with a pet store line in Boise Idaho who wants the rest because they are popular their But the local pet store wants con parrots he is letting me be his soul experimenter also got a guppy and mollie to bree sadly no pictures but they were popular even though the mollie only had 15 I got mundo bucks for them so Hybrids are my thing but I need help with the basics with it the information on it I mean

aquarist48

Hello Fish Breeder,

I have 11 Bloody Parrots and to my knowledge there is no way to sex them unless you see the exposed papilla.

FishBreeder if you would be so kind as to use punctuation and set you posts in paragraphs it would be a great help and much easier to read. Too, it's good forum etiquette.

Best of luck with the breeding. I wish I could help you more.
Please keep us posted on your progress.

Ken

FishBreeder1992

Yes,I'm quite sorry. I'm not all that good with punctuation. I know how to do it, It's just with the typing I am slow so I just try to save time by skipping a few things in my literary typing.

FishBreeder1992

You have been a great help so far Ken, thank you.

aquarist48

Thanks FishBreeder.

Here are a couple of links that you may find informative if you haven't seen them before. One of them states that Males will turn pink under the gills when in the mating process. However, all of my Bloody Parrots turn colors of all sorts during mating time. Some even go almost completely white. Some go almost calcio or cow print pattern. I have yet to come across any information concerning sexing, that holds true for the Bloody Parrots that I have

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fres...d/blparrot.php
http://cichlidresearch.com/parrot.html
http://www.petfish.net/articles/Cich...ood_parrot.php

Ken

I've moved this thread to the More Freshwater Aquarium Topics/Breeding Fish section of the forum.
Thanks!

Gouramiguy17

Aren't jelly cons just cons bred with parrots? If so you could hybridize.

Shawnie

jelly bean cons are indeed from a pink male con and a female br parrot...finding parrots that arent sterile are the toughest but not impossible

FishBreeder1992

thank you every one, but my convicts are black convicts,and hm my bad forgot to feed them today and they ate all but eight of their fry. Which really made me mad. Mainly because I had them pretty much already sold. Now I have to wait longer. I am hopeful that the parrots may breed with my cons.