flowerhorn price?

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its a figure of speech. are the girls where you live/were born/frequent look like the girls in your avatars. "make the girls" just means the females that are born and growing up in the area you call home.
 
BC in SK said:
NO, they most certainly do not have a scientific name. They are not a described species....nor could they ever be, under the current rules of nomenclature. For it ever to become a species, a hybrid has to occur in nature......and not just the odd one here or there, but an actual seperate population. Once you bring different species into captivity and cross them.....they are considered a domesticated hybrid and have no real scientific name. A flowerhorn is a mix of Amphilophus and Veija/Paratheraps, as well as possibly many other CA cichlid species.

If you want to call a flowerhorn a "Cichlasoma species" (species abreviated sp. not Ssp.) then the term is being used as a common name, not a scientific name. Cichlasoma species are port acara-type fish from South America and it has been an invalid term for CA Heroine for almost 30 years now.
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Bring that up into Fish-Hub where the biggest SE Asia forum is and see what they respond back into you. And that scientific name I listed originated somewhere in SE Asia as well, where flowerhorn is a recognize fish all over. I'll leave that all up to you to do your own finding with the guys who basically export 90% of the tropical fish to most retail LFS.
 
Hybrid flowerhorn have never been described by the scientific commumity nor will they, for the reasons posted previously by BC in SK. In the case of flowerhorn, Cichlasoma sp. is nothing more than a marketing term used to enhance the status/value of the fish. Sounds impressive, but from a scientific standpoint doesn't amount to more than a bucket of warm spit.
 
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I don't usually venture into the hybrid section, but seriously how does this area get away with all the insults and swearing? Is there just straight up no moderators for this section?
 
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