Live in NC and I cannot find a male flowerhorn. Have bought one and it turned out to be a female. Any one know of places in NC. Do I need to purchase on line. I'm a little leery of shipping fish.
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Best way to purchase Flowerhorn
- Thread starter Hunter Rose
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Find someone local that has fry and can show you the parents.
Buy a group of fry before they have been picked over or buy a juvenile over 2 inches that is showing potential.
Its too easy and too expensive to buy a fully grown one.
Buy a group of fry before they have been picked over or buy a juvenile over 2 inches that is showing potential.
Its too easy and too expensive to buy a fully grown one.
I find that the only ones worth my time are from online and mostly overseas. Use a good transshipper like Julie Tran and your experience should be a good one!
Im from NC as well and flowerhorns at all from what I've seen are very rare. Your in luck though, depending on where you are located I'm sure I can hook you up with a Male. Where in NC are you? If your wanting somthing of high quality though, your going to be stuck ordering online ( thats what I do ) or there are a few guys in Charlotte I know of that have a few very nice fish for sale, the cheapest one being $250. If your interested in that shoot me a pm and I'll give you their contact info.
If you just want any ole' male I have one I'll give you for nothing as long as hes going to a good home. Hes not the best quality in the world, but a decent zz/rd about 8 inches long with TONS of attitude.
If you just want any ole' male I have one I'll give you for nothing as long as hes going to a good home. Hes not the best quality in the world, but a decent zz/rd about 8 inches long with TONS of attitude.
Im on the coast, but if you find yourself out this way let me know and I can give you a male. Try getting on craiglist under the charlotte tab and search for "flowerhorn". You will see a couple for sale up there...One of them is a really nice white eye Kamfa with a huge kok, he will set you back $500 though, and the guy will not take any less. I've tried negotiating with him on several occasions. There was another really nice one a vietnamese family had in their restaurant, they are looking to get 300 out of him but Im sure you could talk them down. The guy that has the Kamfa also has, whats looks to me to be, a KML ( not sure ) that has alot of potential...he's looking $250 for him, just spoke with him again and he said the lowest he could go on him is $225. If you just want any ole male though I'm sure you could to petsmart of something and just pick a few up and hopefully one would be a male. Heres some pics of 2 of them, cant find the one from the restaurant, I have their number around here somewhere if you wanna look into that.
Try craigslist lol i know is sounds crazy but i have seen some grade AAA stuff for great prices i hope the flowerhorn gods dont shoot me down to hard but really check it out.
i like going into fish stores that have no clue on FH's and other hybirds i saw a really nice almost faded male SRT for 100$ should of been 300-500$