Blue Something Flowerhorn

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So roughly 18 years ago I had a ZZ Flowerhorn named Buddha. I think he was a "Blue Monkey?" Maybe "Blue Dragon" ....... does that sound about right? Didn't have a lot of color...... kinda bland grey with just a decent amount of Pearl and a nice hump. By far the most aggressive fish I have ever had. Have had other Flowerhorn since then like SRD and Kamfa but nothing has compared to him. Do they still breed those? If so where would I get one?
THE FISH IN THE PICTURE IS NOT MINE, it is a GOOGLE image.... but he looked just like this one.

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Sounds like one of the more original of the zz strain of Flowerhorns. Not sure you can get these fish anymore. If you can it's probably not easy to find. I'm also not as much of a fan of modern flowerhorn as I am for a fish like this. I wish I could get my hands on one.
 
I had a chance about 3 yrs ago to get one and I passed it up. That was the first time since my original that i had seen one, and haven't seen one since. Still regret not buying it.
 
I had one as well. Think they were just rd without much red and pearls and they later gave way to zz (fish rich in pearls) and real red dragon. The fish pictured looks like an old school monkey face like a gm or actual kamalau. Nowadays (on here, anyways) people like to call a pearly fish without much red a kamalau but the fish pictured is closer to what they looked like.
I too loved this style fish, they still had the hybrid vigor so they had longer average lifespan. Shouldnt be too hard to bring them back if you have the space.
 
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Yeah maybe. I looked out up and there was a Blue Dragon....
The one I had way back in the day, was so aggressive that the entire front of my glass was scratched up. Could barely see inside the tank. Had a DOVII type mentality. Absolutely an amazing fish.
 
Aquatic Aggression said:
I had one as well. Think they were just rd without much red and pearls and they later gave way to zz (fish rich in pearls) and real red dragon. The fish pictured looks like an old school monkey face like a gm or actual kamalau. Nowadays (on here, anyways) people like to call a pearly fish without much red a kamalau but the fish pictured is closer to what they looked like.
I too loved this style fish, they still had the hybrid vigor so they had longer average lifespan. Shouldnt be too hard to bring them back if you have the space.
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Yeah, I was going to your best bet on finding some is too bring them back on your own.
 
Personality wise the currently most available fh type fish that comes close are probably the Thailand srm but they will look nothing like that fh. Some of the craziest fish ive kept. Unfaded juvies are cheap. I got 3 and im 3/3 on fading and craziness.

The largest fry from silk or srd fh x kkp always looked like that kamfa style with red eyes if that helps.
 
So thinking outside the box here......
What if you cross a SRD to a barred type Amphilophus species. Like a Barred midas or an Amarillo? Something that has the shorter face and would dull down the coloration. And add the Thai silk in there somehow.
 
Could work out and have a few you like going that route. Mixing anything with the srd will dull the color out. The coloration on the fish you posted looks like it comes from vieja though. The one amp cross I did ended up with lots of long snouts, most people that used them for red texas ended up with loger faces but not all. Lots of central cichlid crosses end up with long snouts for some reason.
If it was me I would still cross to a nice parrot. You could end up with like 50% of the spawn being faders but you get the boxy shape and the extra dose of vieja genes for the color, the genes for that nuchal hump are there and you would be improving the fins. Lots of work for 1 or 2 nice fish though lol.
 
After looking at some big male lysoni it brought back to this thread. I just realized the face on this fish kind of looks similar to lysoni...hmmmm
 
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