Gold Sev. + Blood Parrot? Anyone Seen This Before?

[kubora666]

ok guys. i have 3 blood parrots, a pair of big ones and one small female. the big male took to the lil female whilst the bigger female has paired with a male golden severum and firtile orange coloured eggs. liek with my convict and sajica who currently have a cloud of swarming babies to look after, lay eggs, dig a pit the eggs dissapear, suddenly fry appear, its all quiet strange, i have no idea if cichlids move their eggs or something but im hoping some fry will apear because they are fiercley guarding a pit even as the eggs are unseeable... so any thoughts on this ? help would be apreciated guys

 

[vancouver]

I had a parrot and convict pair up.. I doubt the eggs would be fertile, but who knows.. whatever happened to the bp eggs you had that you thought were fertile? any of them hatch?

 

[saboy]

parrots and convicts can pair up and have fry, I think the fry are then called jelly beans

 

[kubora666]

i know about jellybeans but i have a gold severum male and a female BP.
they still furiously guarding a pit today.... they must have moved the eggs, this keeps happening with my sajica and i found lotsa fry this morning from the sajica that is... but the eggs dissapeared then POOF, fry? weird eh... anyone else get this ?

 

[vancouver]

Never heard of fish moving eggs before

 

[willtang3000]

Never heard of fish moving eggs before

many parents do this to keep other predators on there feet if you like and they also do it to confuses them or if there nest is getting seriously harrased

 

[vancouver]

Really thats neat... mine have moved the fry around before, but never the actual eggs..

 

[SamUK]

they dont always move them.


sometimes they jus bury them so u cant see.

 

[Anamagus]

Hey guys,

As far as I know Gold Severums are a part of blood parrots Parents, I dont know what sex of Severum though. Most hybrid fish are sterile so I you should have some luck with your male, Let us all know of the turn out!

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!

P.S That is neat about the eggs being moved I've never heard of that either!

 

[kubora666]

well theres a florida gar crusing around so i'd burry my eggs too

 

[ice(kat)]

wat would the gold sev and bp come out to be then? gold parrot

 

[kubora666]

not a clue, seen pics of them spawning on the web, never seena pic of the offspring. ( not teh band i got ther poster )

but i supose its a more round less deformed bp really...

 

[vancouver]

I don't think you'll get viable eggs/fry.

 

[diburning]

It has been proven that the severum, heros severus cannot crossbreed with anything. It must be some other cichlid in the CICHLASOMA genus that can crossbreed with a red devil (they are also in the cichlasoma family)

Maybe a RD with a convict?? (cichlasoma (cryptoheros) nigrofaciensis)

Maybe a young rd with an old convict?? The purple parrots up here look like they have convict stripes.

Anyway, if your severum and your parrot were to breed, most parrots are infertile.

Also, jellybean convicts are either dyed or are crosses of the albino pink with the regular convict (somehow their genes have mutated and caused codominance because the striped pattern is the dominant gene)

 

[~T~]

It has been proven that the severum, heros severus cannot crossbreed with anything. It must be some other cichlid in the CICHLASOMA genus that can crossbreed with a red devil (they are also in the cichlasoma family)

Maybe a RD with a convict?? (cichlasoma (cryptoheros) nigrofaciensis)

Maybe a young rd with an old convict?? The purple parrots up here look like they have convict stripes.

Anyway, if your severum and your parrot were to breed, most parrots are infertile.

Also, jellybean convicts are either dyed or are crosses of the albino pink with the regular convict (somehow their genes have mutated and caused codominance because the striped pattern is the dominant gene)

Yeh exactly, my sev and BP are paired up but never breed although one of my forum members had them go through the full process but the eggs did not hatch(no doubt because they cant breed across the genera as said).

For the record cons can breed with BPs as can midas/devils/texas/sysnspillium(mine bred last week but ate the fry) and a few other cichlids.

JB cons parrots may just be a mutation of the pink con making them balloon bodied.I have 2 balloon rams and I have seen balloon firemouths and jack dempseys.Just because they have round bodied does not mean they are part parrot although when my JB and BP bred a few of the offspring were round bodied.