Blood Parrot
1- The Blood parrot (also known as bloody parrot and blood parrotfish) is a hybrid cichlid.
2- The fish was first created in Taiwan in around 1986.
3- Its parentage is unknown, but the most commonly speculated pairings are midas cichlid with the redhead cichlid.
4- This hybrid cichlid has various anatomical deformities, one of the most obvious, and also deadly, deformities is its mouth, which only has very narrow vertical opening.
5- This makes blood parrot very hard to feed.
6- Many die eventually because of this.
7- Cichlid enthusiasts have called for their removal from the market and organized boycotts against pet stores that sell them.
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