wen my girls raised there fry i left them wiv her and she looked after them until they were big enuf to go free swimming and not get eatin but also wen she had her first babys she then laid agen wiv the fry alive and hatched out another batch and look after them all now i fink thts very starange i was expecting her to eat them

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Nice sajica (I shut my eyes for the others lol)

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I have had this input from ~T~ who i know from another forum, he's bred and keeps lots of hybrids and some amazing looking fish.

Anyway, he has given me his input on my Jellybeans and kindly permitted me to post it here

They are short bodied convicts (jellybeans) but this is a genetic defect not because of breeding to a parrot. So your fish are actually pure so to speak (the same way both a fancy goldfish and regular goldfish could be called pure). The pink gene is unique to the pink convict and cannot be transferred to other cichlids. I know this because I have bred both a pink con to a parrot and a short body con(jellybean)to a parrot and the offspring are not only not pink but look nothing like jellybeans. They will cross with sajicas though, I have also had this pairing.

~T~ has a Blood Parrot forum that i am a member of if anyone's interested

http://www.bloodparrots.co.uk/forum/

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Basically any fish in the old Archocentrus group can cross with any of the others, be it cons, sajica, centrachus, septs etc. Must admit to being surprised to find they are all convict tho, won't make me like them any better lol, and the pink gene is a recessive gene, hence why it hasn't shown on the crosses with the parrots. ~T~ does know his stuff, and has had some cracking fish in the past.

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here we go Mr McFarlane

Albino Jellybean father and Blue/Black Convict mother (the one you got now)

looks like they have all survived being syphoned on Friday!

about 2-weeks old now

excuse messy plastic on shots

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they look like little puffers

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Hey you want to come take pics of my fry? I can't get anything more than a grey splodge lol

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you know thats exactly what i was thinking, strange resemblance eh!

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you need "macro" setting on a digi cam mate, and a lot of patience!

If i had known they would come out this good(ish) i would have cleaned the bloody plastic tank they in LOL

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roll out the mongrels!

i cant wait to see what they develop into!