Flowerhorn attack

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barracuda123

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hi. i got a 2 inch flowerhorn at the age of one month. but whe i took her home she grew up to the size of 9 inches (current size) in 4 months!!!!! over the past 4 months she has killed 6 fish (2x green terror, a weather loach, an auratus and 2x jewel cichids). she lives in a 150g tank but before i had a 250g tank.

so anyway i lost hope until 6 weeks ago.....
i saw an oscar that is living with her now that is the same size as her and a parrot cichlid 1/2 her size. i bought them anyway and put them in the tank. the parrot cichlid and the flowerhorn got on incredibly well. they played, they almost bred (long story...), they took care of each other. until yesterday...

...they stopped playing and were at different parts of the tank. i thought oh well. today i woke up and my parrot cichlid was floating about (still alive but heavily breathing and got bite marks all over his body) i have put him in the hospital tank and given him tonic salt and stress coat.


PLEASE I NEED HELP.... CAN ANY ONE TELL ME WHAT ELSE I CAN DO. PLEASE:(:cry::cry:
 
just keep the lights off and continue with the salt and everything, thats about all you can do, also if hes not staying upright that try to situate him with something (a net if you have to) to make sure he stays upright. and yeah thats the bad thing with flowerhorns is that you can very rarely keep them with other fish GOOD LUCK
 
Ok, looks like you have several options.

Option 1- Dedicate a tank solely to the flowerhorn (75 gallon) and maybe throw in a Lg. pleco or some kind of catfish.

Option 2- Tank divider, there kind of expensive so it's much cheeper to build one with plexi-glass and a couple of L brackets.

Option 3- This is how me and the roommates do it. If a fish acts up get a bigger and badder fish. We have a very aggressive Snakeskin Flowerhorn who was messing everybody up in my tank. So we went out and got a Jaguar who was about the same size and boy does she keep him in check. If you go with the Jag then i recomend you get a female because a male will get way to big way to fast and kill your flowerhorn really quick. If you wanna go with another type of fish to keep him under control would be anything of the same size and aggresion as the flowerhorn.
 
Sarah88;3839673; said:
just keep the lights off and continue with the salt and everything, thats about all you can do, also if hes not staying upright that try to situate him with something (a net if you have to) to make sure he stays upright. and yeah thats the bad thing with flowerhorns is that you can very rarely keep them with other fish GOOD LUCK
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thanks so much mate :)
 
well i keep all 3 of my flower horns with 8 other fish 4 african cichlids rest american
 
Im a bout to attemp this very thing but ive been doing alot of reading and im coming to the conclusion that its just not possible!!
 
tiddlywinks;3839861; said:
well i keep all 3 of my flower horns with 8 other fish 4 african cichlids rest american
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yeah but its really the exception to the rule to find a flowerhorn that can stay with tankmates, how big are your flowerhorns and how big is the tank, this can all factor in for if they are still young then once they get bigger your tank may not work as well as it is right now
 
Thats what FH's do. 95% of the time they need to be solitary beasts. They just punish whatever is in the tank. Back in 2000 I got one on accident from a LFS. It was about 4" and it killed an 8" Tiger Shovelnose.
 
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