Petstore Conviced It's a Green Severum--I Think It's a BP

I bought a new parrot fish a few weeks ago. It was in a tank with some other cichlids at the pet store and when I showed the guy which fish I wanted he said, "You want that green severum?" and I said, "No, that 's a parrot fish." The guy stood there and argued with me over it. I 've seen severums before, and while sometimes they do ALMOST look like parrots a little bit, the main difference is that they don 't have that separated hump where the parrot-like beak is. So I bought the "green severum" and I put it in my tank with another older BP. It suspiciously started acting like a parrot fish, i.e.- hiding. It was completely gray with darker streaks when I bought it about 4 weeks ago, but I noticed that recently, much like baby parrots do, it 's color seems to be lightening up and it seems to be turning either white or yellow. I took a few pictures of it to see if anyone agreed with me:



Is this a parrot fish?

Comments

BP

It works both ways too, a member here once bought what he thought was a green BP, only to find he was a green severum, yours is def a parrot( I,d find a better pet shop)

BP

That is definately a BP.

Re: BP

i cant see it that well in those pics :(

BP

thats a cool lookin, uh, blood parrot. what pet store did you get it from?

BP or Severum?

Yep-BP

blood parrot.

i work in a pet store that has a huge selection of fish, and that is no severum! the pet shop guy probably thought he would sound stupid if he admitted to being wrong.

Definitely a parrot.

Definitely a parrot. Severums have a different body shape than parrots.

Elvis, Bubbles and Tammy Fae.
My babies.

RE:BP

juvenile parrot to me as well...

BP

Sure looks like a juvenile parrot cichlid to me.