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The original title: "this kind of fish sold in the flower-and-bird market will make money, but the truth behind it is cruel."

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I wonder if you have seen this kind of fish?

Blood parrot (photo source: the aquatic coder / youtube) the fish has a high appearance rate in public places such as flower-and-bird markets, hotels, shopping malls, corporate facades and so on. The fish owner will tell you that it is called "blood parrot", or "rich fish" or "Santa Claus fish". It is very beautiful and easy to raise. However, the fish boss will not tell you that the "blood parrot" is not only not a natural species, but also a fish that suffers from raw fish.

Today we will learn about the story of Xiaoyuer, who has brought great wealth and misery at the same time.

If you search for "blood parrot" or its English common name "blood parrot" on the world's largest online fish database, the World Fish Database (FishBase) managed by nine research institutions, including the Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences, you won't find anything.

(photo Source: fishbase.se) what's going on here?

The answer is simple, because the world fish database only contains natural fish species, and blood parrots do not exist in nature. It is a pure artificial fish, but also a hybrid fish, similar to a mule, unable to produce offspring.

However, this "miscellaneous fish" is not a "miscellaneous fish". Taiwan University calls it the "Light of Taiwan" and says it is the most important export ornamental fish in Taiwan Province.

This "fish" out of nothing also starts with an engineering man.

Cai Jianfa studied electronic engineering in high school and later worked in an audio company, but what he loved most was fish. As an aquarium enthusiast, he opened an ornamental fish farming factory and became the fish owner after leaving the audio company.

In 2009, blood parrot father Cai Jianfa (1 from right) and Chen Jianzhi (1 from left) participated in an ornamental fish fair (photo source: Newtalk News) aquaculture also needed continuous innovation to make progress. The daily business of the fish boss is not only to take care of the "water army" in the pond, but also to hybrid "elf baby".

In 1988, he and his old friend Chen Yanqing, as well as Chen Jianzhi, a researcher from the Department of Animal Science at National Taiwan University, discovered the blood parrot in a bunch of hybrid fish between the female purplish red crayfish (Cichlasoma synspilum) and the male red devil fish (Cichlasoma citrinellum).

The original blood parrot is a hybrid of purple crayfish (Cichlasoma synspilum, top) and red devil fish (Cichlasoma citrinellum, bottom). (photo: wikimedia) Blood parrot became popular as soon as it made its debut, and once sold for a sky-high price of 50, 000 New Taiwan dollars (10, 000 yuan) a pair. Tsai Jianfa, Chen Jianzhi and Chen Yanqing say that Taiwan's blood parrots have been exported since 1989.

As I just said, male and female blood parrots can have feelings, but there can be no results. This is BUG for buyers, but wealth code for sellers.

Blood parrots love to play (photo source: watermark) at that time, other countries in the world did not know who was the cross-species love crystallization of blood parrots and could not breed blood parrots on their own, so Taiwan Province completely monopolized the blood parrot market. Wang Guozhong, director of the Pingtung County viewing Aquarium production Association, says that during peak periods, blood parrots can export 80,000 parrots a month.

Over the next 20 years, blood parrots generated 300 million foreign trade, bringing 10 billion New Taiwan dollars (2 billion yuan) in foreign exchange to Taiwan Province. The blood parrot is super able to fight and become a world-class fish species. Chen Jianzhi said that now there are blood parrots at all international ornamental fish exhibitions in Southeast Asia.

Chen Jianzhi also recalled that because of the popularity of the blood parrot, there was a battle for the name of the father of the blood parrot, and finally he and Cai Jianfa and Chen Yanqing unlocked the achievement of the "father of the blood parrot."

Blood parrots love to play (photo source: Internet) however, National Taiwan University points out that the more beautiful the appearance of hybrid fish is, the more deformed they are, and the shorter their lifespan is, and blood parrots are no exception.

Chen Jianzhi, one of the three "fathers" of blood parrots, admits that blood parrots are born with defects, and the biggest defect is that their mouths don't fit.

The beak of the blood parrot (photo source: the aquatic coder / youtube) for humans, this makes the blood parrot always seem to smile, bringing endless emotional value. But for blood parrots, unclosed mouths can make it difficult to eat, and they can only struggle to feed on the muscles of their throats. In short, other fish eat by nagging, blood parrots rely on oh.

Brocade carp rice (photo source: Internet) in addition to this fetal disease, the blood parrot has also undergone various acquired "magic changes".

The natural colors of blood parrots are limited, only red, yellow and gray, and the other colors you see are artificially dyed.

Color blood parrot (photo source: TXetc / youtube) Chen Jianzhi said that the blood parrot's staining technique mainly depends on injections, and it has been done since childhood.

It turns out that the blood parrot is not red since childhood, at first it is gray and white. Generally speaking, they don't turn red until they grow to 7 centimeters long. In order to dye them, they should be operated before they turn red.

Blood parrots stained green (photo: the aquatic coder / youtube) since the red and orange colors of blood parrots come from astaxanthin, breeders cut off astaxanthin during their growth and then inject pigments into the back of the blood parrots so that the blood parrots change color. It turns into a blue parrot when it's blue and a pink parrot when it's pink.

However, this kind of dyed fish can only be kept for a period of time, and the color will fade after 3 weeks to 5 months after the pigment injection. In order to have colorful parrots in the fish tank at any time, players can only keep flushing gold coins.

The worst thing I'm afraid is not the stained blood parrot, but the blood parrot called "one heart".

This kind of blood parrot looks very cute, because it looks like a heart of love.

"one Heart" (photo source: shayaochi.pixnet.net) I wonder if you see anything wrong? why is there a little "tweet" on the ass of "one Heart"?

It turns out that "one heart" is an artificial disabled fish. When the fish are 2-3 centimeters long, their tails are cut off so that they can grow up and become "one heart". Chen Jianzhi said that 1/10 of the small fish who have undergone surgery will die.

"one Heart" (photo: shayaochi.pixnet.net) similarly, there is a blood parrot called "pentagram" with a knife on its back. Such "surgeries" were very popular in 2015-2016, he said. With the gradual spread of the truth of "magic reform", many aquarium enthusiasts abroad have begun to boycott this kind of deformed fish.

Of course, blood parrots can be changed by magic because they are really "resistant". Blood parrots do not have high requirements for water quality and are not easy to get sick.

All in all, only very strong fish can bring a steady stream of wealth to human beings after suffering from injections, disability and inability to eat.

If you are lucky enough to adopt this kind of fish, please be sure to treat it well.

Because healthy, miserable, and finally realized.

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