First Flowerhorn

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SDC10492.JPGSDC10494.JPGSDC10486.JPGSDC10487.JPGSDC10493.JPGThis 8"er was sold to me as a Kamfa for $100. Canadian. The private seller kept him in a bare bottom tank with a typical planted background at 87*f.
I prepared my 90g by cranking the heat up to 86*f and adding 45mls salt and continue with 45mls after every water change as recommended by the seller.
Have black gravel and background. He darkened up somewhat so I changed the background to blue, and will wait and see before considering a gravel change or bare bottom.
I'm currently feeding cichlid gold, cichlid excel, with occational food stick. Plan on switching over to NLS soon.
LOVE this flowerhorn, he is very curious, exploring his tank, digging away and attacking his meals 3x a day. I plan on doing 30% water changes 2x per week, can do more if nessecary.
Toronto water is on the hard side, the seller suggested I add crushed coral to my system. If nessecary will loading up a hagen powerhead cartrage be enough or do I need to put more in via the canister filter ?
Been doing a lot of reading up, but found contradictory info. regarding temp. and salt. Would like to drop the temp. to 84*f ?
He will be sharing his tank with 2 small (4") royal plecos, with lots of hiding places, so far he just eyeballs them.
I'm running with an eheim 2250, 401 powerhead, rena 300 air pump.
Any and all comments/suggestions, good or bad welcome. I'm guessing this guy is around 2yrs. old and want to do my best to give him a long as possible quality life.

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P.S. My flowerhorn loves zucchini. Found out by accident when I threw some in for the plecos, he attacked it until it came loose from the fork, and then started biting at it till it came apart into edible chunks. Took a while, very entertaining.
 
Nice fader. Lower the water temp a bit. I find temps above 85 to be unnecessary for FH's. Don't worry about adding crushed coral. Water from my tap is pretty hard too, and my FH's are doing very well.
 
Nice fader! Keep giving it a variety of foods and good water quality and he will be a stunner. Watch you plecos, once he is established he might get more aggressive towards any fish in with him.
It looks like something might be wrong with its lips?
 
nice fader! he gona be awsome
 
There is no need to add crushed coral to the water in TO. Drop the temp to 82F, and the color of your background can be black if you prefer, perhaps just use a lighter colored substrate. Once this fish fully fades it won't matter either way. Oh, and feeding NLS is always a good thing. ;)
 
Thank you all for the positive inputs and information.

The one thing I'm still not clear on is aquarium salt, how much and how often ? :confused:
 
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