General perception of flowerhorns and owners

[Blakewater]

If the kok is balanced to the 'horn's body it works...but seeing a grapefruit on a five inch fish just looks weird...the poor things can't half see what's in front of them and the thing is always getting banged up, or they have to headstand just to eat.

Agreed, I just mean a kok doesnt make or break the fish for me. Unless, like you said, its huge on a tiny fish and the poor fish looks like its struggling.

 

[FINWIN]

Agreed, I just mean a kok doesnt make or break the fish for me. Unless, like you said, its huge on a tiny fish and the poor fish looks like its struggling.

I'm often amazed how among 'horn owners that's such a thing, even when its out of balance. One of the most amazing clips I saw was a you tube "Oscar vs Flowerhorn" video. I thought I knew what the outcome would be. Wrong! The Oscar figured out the flowerhorn couldn't bite at him because the kok was so big...so the O used his big mouth and took chunks out of it...tore the flowerhorn up. Craziest thing I ever saw.

 

[DwarfCichlidLvr]

Im not a pig hybrid person.
Ruturaj , I like your fh. And there are several that I like but most of the time I dont like them. But certain ones do look good.
I also don't like most parrots. However crystal parrots do look nice.

 

[Ruturaj]

I enjoy looking at flowerhorns but the KOK has never mattered to me. Personally I feel for how easy they are to obtain the prices are insanely overinflated to the extreme. I feel like a lot of the owners of them dont give the fish enough room and thinking 30-40g for any cichlid that gets to 12" isnt really fair. I think while the hobby has evolved to push for better treatment of most fish, flowerhorns have been left out of this new age awareness when the fish strains theyre bred from aren't.

The problem is most breeders and people who participate in "competitions" keep fish in tiny tank and that's the norm. I posted on facebook group about tiny tanks not being good and I received so much heat on it.

 

[Ruturaj]

If the kok is balanced to the 'horn's body it works...but seeing a grapefruit on a five inch fish just looks weird...the poor things can't half see what's in front of them and the thing is always getting banged up, or they have to headstand just to eat.

That's what is perceived as good fish sadly and so much inbreeding has resulted in line which have large hump but with huge belly, people call it turbo gene.

This fish here @6:45 looked so good and the host bought a fish with huge tummy and called it beautiful

 

[Ruturaj]

Im not a pig hybrid person.
Ruturaj , I like your fh. And there are several that I like but most of the time I dont like them. But certain ones do look good.
I also don't like most parrots. However crystal parrots do look nice.

There are so many variations, there would be something everyone would like look wise.

 

[Blakewater]

The problem is most breeders and people who participate in "competitions" keep fish in tiny tank and that's the norm. I posted on facebook group about tiny tanks not being good and I received so much heat on it.

I know what you mean, I get the same heat from telling people to stop buying baby bass for their 55g set ups with no upgrade in sight. It sucks but someone needs to at least let people know they cant get away with it guilt free

 

[fishhead0103666]

This is the perfect kok size if you ask me.

 

[Ruturaj]

This is the perfect kok size if you ask me.
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That's a juvenile though, hump proportion to body changes as they grow.

Mine started looking like this.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

This is the perfect kok size if you ask me.
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That's a juvenile though, hump proportion to body changes as they grow.

Mine started looking like this.

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See both of these are great looking FH's, I personally like the first one better but only for the colors/pattern. I personally don't mind a big kok on a FH as long as it doesn't impede it in day to day life. Imo I would say nothing much bigger then my female here tho. She already has enough of one imo, much any bigger then that and then it starts to become unhealthy for the fish.