Flowerhorn defined?

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Demonfish

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My definition of a flowerhorn is a hybrid cichlid based primarily around the Trimac. However, I've seen flowerhorns that don't look like they have a bit of Trimac in them. My flowerhorn is mainly blue, but most I see on the net are red. I recently saw a "flowerhorn" in a shop that looked like a red devil with black circles around it's eyes. Is there any kind of concensus on what makes a flowerhorn vs some other hybrid fish? Certainly a Parrot is a hybrid, but I've never seen them referred to as flowerhorn. Thoughts?
 
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ayobreezie

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Flowerhorns are continuously evolving, the older Flowerhorns had a lot of Trimac in them.. but as you can see, Flowerhorns are being hybridized and developed into better colors, etc. But Parrot hybrids are pretty much a stable hybrid.. they all pretty much end up the same.. Flowerhorns, every one is different.
 
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metalslug

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Essentially a flowerhorn is a fish crossed more than 3 tines. So you can have a FH made with Vieja/KKp then a fish from that back to the mother would give you a RBK. Or a Trimac, to a Red Devil, and back the F1 back to one of the parents. But Trimac looks like the 1st of the strains.
 
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Paintsn

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easy.. just follow this..it will solve alot of headaches

FH is a hybrid from Mal, any other is just a hybrid.

Just like a FF is hybrid from Taiwan and also a SRT is a hybrid from Thai. So why just can't a hybrid be called a hybrid instead of saying a FF/SRT is a FH??......
 
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