When i bought a flower horn from my lfs that said it was a purple flame but when you look up purple flame flower horns on google there is no such thing as on does any one know what my flower horn is
Flower horn identification
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Looks hybrid to me.. 
Ok joking aside, i dont know much about fh strains, but thats a gorgeous fish you got
Ok joking aside, i dont know much about fh strains, but thats a gorgeous fish you got
Since all FHs, are all hybrids, the names given them are simply made up trade names, that have more to do with Pokemon, than reality.
I would say that is a Red Mammon but with FH people give them cool names to raise the price. but either way that is a beautiful fish no buyers remorse there
At what point does a fish become its own fish species? I know nothing about flower horns except they are expensive.
Do FHs not breed with each other? Are they sterile? How long have they been around? If they only breed with each other when would they become a classified fish?
(Also I’m not really directing these questions at you Duanes or trying to stir the pot, I really appericiate all the knowledge I have read on this site that you shared)
A FH is a combination of two (or more) legitimate species originally conceived in Asia, but is now common in that everyone and their sister thinks by combining this species or that together, they will get a new and exciting variant..
It will never be a true species, because it is man induced.
Anyone can call it whatever they want, if its predominantly silver it could be called a platinum picachu, if mostly pink, a rose something or other.
In Asian it was a long term process of culling out many substandard individuals and combining the most colorful together to get a high standard, highly colored , non-deformed individual, and this process took time, hence the cost.
Probably why you see so many bland, unspectacular individual FHs in LFSs, because the local breeders do not have the space, or have not taken time to grow them out long enough, to notice and cull out the less than great looking ones before turning them over to be sold. In any hybrid spawn, some will look like the mother, some the father, and some in-between with a tiny percentage looking exceptional, and many more not so hot.
It will never be a true species, because it is man induced.
Anyone can call it whatever they want, if its predominantly silver it could be called a platinum picachu, if mostly pink, a rose something or other.
In Asian it was a long term process of culling out many substandard individuals and combining the most colorful together to get a high standard, highly colored , non-deformed individual, and this process took time, hence the cost.
Probably why you see so many bland, unspectacular individual FHs in LFSs, because the local breeders do not have the space, or have not taken time to grow them out long enough, to notice and cull out the less than great looking ones before turning them over to be sold. In any hybrid spawn, some will look like the mother, some the father, and some in-between with a tiny percentage looking exceptional, and many more not so hot.
Thank you for sharing, my only follow up question is do they breed true? Or are they sterile?
I think I answered breeding true, in the last post, in that in any hybrid cichlids spawn few will be exceptional (true) but a large number will be variations. FHs started showing up @ 20 years ago, so not that long in the larger scheme of things, and "true" to one form or the other may come with time.
They are not necessarily sterile, like many mutant types ( BPs).
In Asia where culls are often dumped in rivers, they have flourished as feral invasive populations.
They are not necessarily sterile, like many mutant types ( BPs).
In Asia where culls are often dumped in rivers, they have flourished as feral invasive populations.
