Seeing as how they are found in the wild, and no one seems to know what fish they are hybrids of, then how do we know that they are actually hybrids?
2007-10-13 15:58:49 · 4 answers · asked by galapagos6 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
Are you talking about blood parrots? If so, they are not found in the wild, they are hybrids of convict cichlids and I believe midas cichlids.
2007-10-13 19:08:25 · answer #1 · answered by AliDawn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
depends on what speices your referring to.
there is a wild cichlid called parrot fish. They are very uncommon in the trade and native to the amazon. They are uncolored and look like smaller urau cichlids.
Now parrot cichlids like blood parrots are hybreds. And not found in the wild.
Traditionally they have been created in the follow combos.
Servum X convict
Red devil X servum
You know they are hybreds as if you will notice, they cant close their mouths. This is the key that you can tell they are hybreds. It is a genetic fault that is common to hybreds which is why most hybreds cant adapt which is why you dont often see hybreds in the wild.
So blood parrots are not natural and not in the wild.
2007-10-14 02:01:07 · answer #2 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chances are they are not hybrids at all. I dont know where you got that information, but after keeping parrotfish caught from the wild, I can say that they are definately the MOST advanced fish of the tropicals found in nature. Their intelligence is uncanny, and they definately can reason, at least as well as any dog (and I've kept some very smart dogs!) They have a set mating ritual, and are not territorial when doing so...unlike most other species on earth. My experience with the parrotfish I netted on Fiesta Key, Florida
was such that I changed the way I look at the animal kingdom, and I eventually had to take that fish back and release it! My conscience simply could not bear watching that fish turn away every time I looked at it, even if I was sitting across the room! It would eat, but not as long as I was looking at it. It would swim out into the open, but if I looked, it swam back into the corals again. I finally figured out what it was trying to communicate to me: "TAKE ME BACK HOME, I'M NOT LIKE THE OTHER FISH IN HERE!"
2007-10-13 16:47:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Blood parrot's are not found in the wild.
2007-10-14 01:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by Jackp1ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋