Resty and Cueball (pure bred baby Blood Parrot Cichlids)

Originally posted by scott
I guess some posts were deleted because I am sure not following this.

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One question then. If blood parrots were a mutatuion then to get them in the quantity they appear would there be another way than line breeding? If they are line bred than who does it? I can say for sure that Rapps breeds blue dempseys, can anyone say for sure someone that breeds parrots to meet the supply and demand currently seen?
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Yeah thats what I think, Hybrid or muatation aside there must be a place where they are intensively bred.I know a few wholesalers around here.I might see if they would do a little detective work.
 
I know the owner in the Philly Chinatown LFS got his BP, Flowerhorn, Green Terror and fancy Goldfish from Asia. He did not import himself but he bought them from another wholeseller in New York that imported them directly from Asia and redistributed them elsewhere. BP is an Asian creation and is appreciated more in the east than in the west as a Fung Shui or good luck fish. If you do a web search for Dragon Fish or Arrowana, you will come across Aisan wholesellers on BP along with Flowerhorn and arrowanas. There are BP produced in Florida fish farms but they are of low quality. BPs are still produced in large quantity in the East though it has declined somewhat due to replacement by new favorite Flowerhorn. The newest BPs from Asia, known as King Kong BP or other fancy names, do not carry the deformed mouth but look more like regular Red Devel except for a shorter body (with crooked backbone?). They have very intense red and some have marble white and red pattern. They are very showy fish and I have a few pictures of them in my web site:

"http://www.geocities.com/bluespeacock/parrot1.jpg"
"http://www.geocities.com/bluespeacock/parrot2.jpg"
"http://www.geocities.com/bluespeacock/parrot3.jpg"

As for Blue Dempsy, they are South American creation and Jeff Rapp is the North America distributor. I don't know if Jeff breed them himself or bought them from the breeder in South America. Jeff has posted about BD and cited the article from the BD creator on how he developed the BD strain from mutation. So there is no secret or controversy now for BD. BP is a Taiwanese creation but the secret of its creation was never disclosed.
 
Did you know that Blood Parrots come in all different kinds of shapes? :eek:

In Singapore, they have Unicorn Blood Parrots...and etc. That is freaky.
 
Yeah...my point is...what good does the horn do? There are no purpose for it...why even bother. *sigh*
 
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