I have a question for those of you with more knowledge about flowerhorns. When purchasing a flowerhorn, at what point can you tell what the adult color, pearling ect. will be? In other words at what size will you be able to see the final look of a flowerhorn? Will many keep changing at 3", 6", 8"?
Flowerhorn color change question
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You can almost never tell unless the strain is very well established and the traits are fixed over several generation.
At around that size u should keep it solo, bump up the warmth of the water to about 86. Let adapt. You should see its colors/markings. Then it all intensify with age/growth. But then theres a fader type that turns into a different colored fish.
Here is my kmfa flower horn i got from that petsmart fiasco where they were selling red texas cichlids and they were actually kmfa flowerhorns.. he was dark blue and with in a 3 week period he completely changed colors .. he is a awesome fish
Wow! Did you buy yours tiny? If so what did he look like?
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What a deal you got there! The petsmart around here is also selling what look like tiny flowerhorns as red texas. They are green with 3 black spots and a little pink. I think it's so weird but the workers there don't know the slightest thing about them.
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