He usually jumps up and bops his kok on my finger and repeats but this time he wanted a taste for flesh
Flowerhorn growout
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Making me want a flowerhorn lol! Kept lots of that amph feistiness!
For plants, good floaters are hornwort and giant duckweed (not as ugly as the small stuff). They grow like weeds too.
Anubias and Javas are good for low light plants that can take a beating. Easy to keep alive and start growing very fast after being in the tank for a bit.
I would start small and add as it goes. No sense in wasting too much money as an experiment.
For plants, good floaters are hornwort and giant duckweed (not as ugly as the small stuff). They grow like weeds too.
Anubias and Javas are good for low light plants that can take a beating. Easy to keep alive and start growing very fast after being in the tank for a bit.
I would start small and add as it goes. No sense in wasting too much money as an experiment.
He will continue to attack you but that doesn't mean it isn't stressing him out. Limit this Activity and stop for the day whenever black bars like above show up.
Black bars come out as his stress colors right? I usually play with him until the big pearl on his hump turns from grey to black and when it goes back to grey I stop playing with him.
But that’s stressing him out. When it turns black it means he’s stressed. Stopping BEFORE that happens will less stress him out.
Not unusual for a cichlid to get stressed out and then sick, and eventually die. Heck there are even species of cichlids like hatiensis and beani that get so stressed out at not being able to attack another fish in another tank that they die.
I’ve had daisy since he was hardly 1”. He knows me and I know him. He actually only eats if I’m the one that out the food in the tank too but whenever he gets stressed he acts like a completely different fish. When it turns black at first I thought it was due to heavy stress but I’ve found out that he changed that color on his head at random or depending on him mood. Dark black I’ve found is when he’s angry or hungry and a light black I’ve found means stress. The spot on his head is usually a blotchy black with olive green.
Don’t remember what plant I got. It’s either Anubias or a sword. I’m acclimating it to water parameters right now. 
