Flower Horn tank
- Thread starter Rory lowe
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i would say minimum a standard 75 gallon cause thats what mine lives in. ive toyed with the notion of keeping him in a 50 or 46 gallon but at 8" he is already too much for those sized tanks.
for a shortbody or other smaller sized type flowerhorn you could probably do a 3' 50 or even 40b.
most "dedicated" flowerhorn keepers i see are keeping them in 100-150 gallon tanks though.
i would avoid unnecessarily tall tanks too...my fh seems to occupy the lower half of the tank 95% of the time.
for a shortbody or other smaller sized type flowerhorn you could probably do a 3' 50 or even 40b.
most "dedicated" flowerhorn keepers i see are keeping them in 100-150 gallon tanks though.
i would avoid unnecessarily tall tanks too...my fh seems to occupy the lower half of the tank 95% of the time.
this might sound like a stupid question...but if i bump up the tank size can i keep a flower horn and an Oscar together
it might work for awhile u can trt but get a juvenile oscar and flowerhorn so they grow uo together but eventually the flowerhorn might beat on the oscar unless u get a big tank maybe it could work
It could work depending on the flowerhorn, they are usually much more aggressive than an Oscar but some FH's are more mellow. But I think you would have a better shot if you added more than just those two. When you have only two cichlids in a tank, the dominant one usually beats the subdom one badly because there is nothing else to distract him. Minimum size to try something like this (FH, Oscar, 2-3 other cichlids) would probably be a 180gallon.
not likely. both are usually very greedy eaters and flowerhorn get very territorial once they mature. my flowerhorn began bullying his oscar tankmate when he was only half the others size and i eventually had to jettison the oscar.
