Need Identification Help

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Boddington

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Feb 22, 2005
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Could this be a:

CONVICT/FIREMOUTH CROSS

CONVICT/PARROT CROSS

???

Im Stumped and need help

I keep reading the sites and nothing looks simular

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cant be a parrot convict cross my best guess would be a convict-severum, midas-convict. but thats not supposed to happen, so I have no idea. that is one wierd lookin fish. some midas have vertical black lines when there small so it could just be a plain parrot. Why would you want that fish anyways?
 
why?

Not sure why.

When I was in the shop there were 2 - they are actually different coloured normally - when I took the photo myself I was like what???

I bought them because the man at the fish shop wanted to get rid of them and was actually going to destroy em and as I have become friends with him he gave them to me.

They do have the head of a parrot - but im not sure that they are - he said that they were firemouth parrots - which I laughed at because Im sure whoever gave them to him made it up.

They are actually like bronzie with charcole black bodies and stripes - they have red edged fins and also green neol spots on the tail fin etc - when they get upset they then turn pail and they blush - have bright red finage and red spots on gills and belly.

Mostly though they are the Charcol.

The reason why Im wondering what they are is because I would like to know how big they will eventually grow - I have heard that people purchase Parrots and a firemouth so that they will breed without the tank aggression - heard this from another LFS a reputable one not the one I go to - which would be a parrot with a pure cichlid - this goes from an F1 to an F2 which according to the net says that when these ones breed they then take on the form of what ever is the other parent - which then makes the breed lines dangerous because they get sold to petshops under mis titles and people could purchase believing that its pure and end up with freak babies!! which is bad.
 
Amazing? It looks like a deformed cull to me. It very well could simply be a "blood parrot" as the coloration seen is typical of Midas Cichlids which are at least partly credited to contributing genetic material to the parrots.

My guess? You simply have a barred parrot which is nothing more than a deformed fish... hardly amazing.
 
Thanks

Thanks everyone Ill definately keep it - and Ill also post another picture when it and its brother or sister grow up :)
 
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