Flower horn or Frontosa

[terminator1983]

I'd guess that the green ones are the pretty standard lowish quality red dragons that are the most commonly found flowerhorn found in LFS.
THe "white" ones are probably faders, which will start off dark when young and fade to a golden/yellow/red background colour maybe with some blue pearls on.
Both types can be nice fish when older. SImilarly, individuals of those types can also be pretty dull looking fish.
If you can, pick out the brightest, most confident, best coloured fish in the batch, and you have a better than average chance that they will turn out OK. You'll also have a reasonable chance that it s a male, which tend to be more colourful, and tend to have bigger koks.
Do a search for red dragon flowerhorns, and also fader (or goldenbase) flowerhorns and see if these could be the fish you have seen. Bear in mind that any pictures that come up on google will probably the most colourful top quality versions of these fish.
I have both types, so can appreciate both looks !!

Thanks for the help

my 2.5" FH i thought would b safe in my com tank as everything else was 10" plus.
a week later everything was dead except the FH, he even killed a 2ft plec.
so i wouldnt advise keeping them with fronts.

on the other hand my female fh was good as cold with everything that kept out her way.

i didn't thoght that they can be that much aggressive at this stage bcoz at different sites and also at here i have read that they can be kept with other fish when they are young and a few people had success in keeping them with other fishes for long term therefore i asked that can i keep them until they don't show aggression toward the other tankmates

I concur. I have 13 Fronts in a 220 and 1 FH in a 90. the FH is much more active, but Fronts are realy gracefully.

They had always been my favorite african cichlid, before I go into peacocks. Luckily you can mix peacocks with the Fronts. The only thing I can mix with my FH is more water.

I had peacocks and Malawi Blue Dolphin with fronts but now i was thnking of adding some other fish with fronts than peacocks and dolphine i saw the pics of flowerhorn therefore i was curiuos if they can be kept with the fronts

 

[Cichlid Me Up]

frontosa's get more color and really glow if you have like dead on tank conditions..