Flowerhorn feeding.

[BIG_ONE]

But you must also remember this too if your raising a FH to be at its best. This means clean water, healthy and right food which means a variety of food, free disease, and water temperature also makes a difference in how your fish will turn out. Your care will also determine how much the fish will put out from its dominant genes.
Just because you have a very good fish, lack of care and proper food will make your top of line FH look very ugly also. Everything you give to your FH plays a role on how your FH will look.

 

[mangingisda]

ok, then why these two FHs of my two friends has the same color..? why Edz FH which is feeding of ChingMix is not have much better and brighter color than to Wilbert FH?

 

[mangingisda]

But you must also remember this too if your raising a FH to be at its best. This means clean water, healthy and right food which means a variety of food, free disease, and water temperature also makes a difference in how your fish will turn out. Your care will also determine how much the fish will put out from its dominant genes.
Just because you have a very good fish, lack of care and proper food will make your top of line FH look very ugly also. Everything you give to your FH plays a role on how your FH will look.

100% but no need of expensive food if you can do these all... enough protein and water condition is a #1 enhancer for their genes...

 

[RD.]

I have gravel in my tanks as well, I simply feed in a controlled manner, the fish eat one pellet at a time until I decide they have had enough. They are all trained from an early age to eat at the top of the tank, so the sinking pellets don't make it past the first inch or so of the water line.

I don't just toss a handful of pellets into each tank. (allowing the water soluble vitamins to leach out) This is how I feed FH of all sizes, from 1" juvies to adult, whether I use sinking, or when they become extra large in size, floating pellets. The fish are always fed measured portions, in a controlled manner.

A high quality fish food will bring out the wide spectrum of natural colors in a fish, not just the color red, yet at the same time it should not cause a fish that is naturally white, to turn pink, or a fish that is naturally yellow, to become orange. When these unnatural color enhancements take place it is typically caused by excessive use of synthetic color enhancing agents. (such as Carophyll Pink) These are the type of short-cuts that you will see with lower quality foods. They use low cost ingredients & simply jack the color enhancing agents up. (especially for red)

If you don't think that diet plays a role in the development and color of a fish, you haven't been keeping fish very long. Large humps are not created by "high protein", nor is massive amounts of protein required by a FH to develop properly. This is another misconception created by people who are ignorant to the science of fish nutrition, as well as the genetic make up of all FH. FH are omnivores, and do not require massive amounts of protein to develop properly & grow into MP fish.

The foods that are marketed specifically for FH are based on hype, and consumer ignorance. All high quality fish foods contain the same amino acids (protein), fatty acids, Omega 3, carbs, etc, as the ones that are promoted as being "hump boosters".

Are some foods better than others, absolutely, but without good genetics a mediocre FH will remain just that, mediocre.

 

[mangingisda]

The foods that are marketed specifically for FH are based on hype, and consumer ignorance. All high quality fish foods contain the same amino acids (protein), fatty acids, Omega 3, carbs, etc, as the ones that are promoted as being "hump boosters".

Are some foods better than others, absolutely, but without good genetics a mediocre FH will remain just that, mediocre.

i salute on you bro in this part your absolutely right...

i am thinking now that the person who advice me from the other site is you, because you have the same words is teofilo85 and you are the same person?

BTW i haven't mentioned of high protein but just an enough protein..

 

[RD.]

No, that wouldn't have been me. I use the same user ID everywhere I post, except on a few FH sites where they wouldn't allow a 2 letter ID.

 

[mangingisda]

No, that wouldn't have been me. I use the same user ID everywhere I post, except on a few FH sites where they wouldn't allow a 2 letter ID.

Okies

 

[Naranbaatar]

i got a japanese fish farm food that contains 60% protein and it sinks and also plant based works wonders, for coloration i got a food that is name 101 it works wonders on pearl and colors of the fish also i give frozen blood worms and some other ciclid food now and then i am happy with the results

 

[Man-made Monsters]

A varied diet of High quality pellets and natural protein is best. I use Hikari Bio Gold Plus, JBL Novo Flowermaxi, Fresh Farm raised shrimp that I boil before chopping into small bits, bloodworm, and fresh cooked crab mixed with Vita Chem. Weekly water changes of 25-50% based on how strong your bio load is inside of your filters will help a flowerhorn be their best through out their entire life. Water temp 84 F and PH held at a steady number between 7.0-7.4