Bought as a red texas wondering if someone could confirm
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I love the black sand better but try the white sand. Post pictures when you're done with the setup.
Defenitely dont go with white sand.
Since he is all pearls atm . I would go bare bottom and paint the bottom, back , and sides of aquarium blue.
Thats just me but its up to you.
The blue will make his pearls stand out btw
Try to keep him alone so he can color up for you and u can see his potential
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Since he is all pearls atm . I would go bare bottom and paint the bottom, back , and sides of aquarium blue.
Thats just me but its up to you.
The blue will make his pearls stand out btw
Try to keep him alone so he can color up for you and u can see his potential
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Wow dude, yours looks like mine, I also got it at petsmart. I checked 3 petsmarts around me and most were plain looking except for him.
I posted on here as well and was told it was a Kamfa.
How has yours been doing with food? It's been about 3 weeks for me and he's grown a good inch since I got him. He has been spitting out NLS ever since though, so I started feeding him freeze dried krill and frozen blood worms/mysis shrimp. I threw in a market shrimp the other night and he only ate about half of it before I removed it.
That picture was on black sand, and he stood out well. I switched that sand out to "beach" sand from my LFS because it is easier to clean(little smaller than gravel, not as fine as sand), and he maintained his colors. It seems that flowerhorns arent one of the fish that drastically change when on light substrate or different backgrounds (like a firemouth/convict do IME).
I posted on here as well and was told it was a Kamfa.
How has yours been doing with food? It's been about 3 weeks for me and he's grown a good inch since I got him. He has been spitting out NLS ever since though, so I started feeding him freeze dried krill and frozen blood worms/mysis shrimp. I threw in a market shrimp the other night and he only ate about half of it before I removed it.
That picture was on black sand, and he stood out well. I switched that sand out to "beach" sand from my LFS because it is easier to clean(little smaller than gravel, not as fine as sand), and he maintained his colors. It seems that flowerhorns arent one of the fish that drastically change when on light substrate or different backgrounds (like a firemouth/convict do IME).
Mine's been chowing down on nls since I got him.
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Lucky. I keep tossing in pellets when I feed him frozen food but he still doesn't want to touch them. In a couple months when he gains some size I'll try starving him to get him on pellets.
I would try it now he'll benefit more from straight nls than straight frozen food try tossing in a couple of pellets of another brand with it that way he'll force himself to eat it when he is still hungry thats how I got mine to take floating nls now they go for it first then go after the hikari I feed with it
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I've used all kinds of sand and substrate, for something with color and pearls a natural colored gravel is best. A light covering, don't make it really thick. White sand washes out color and pearls bad, black makes the fish's base color too dark. Best food for color and pearls is omega one super color cichlid pellets.
Agree on the substrate, disagree on the food. IMO NLS tops Omega in both color and shine on pearls, but that's just my experience.
