Flowerhorn selection questions/ I'm a novice!

[pitbullfish]

i would say buy what u like.. u can always post the pics here though if u are not looking for a big head then go for it.. i personally dont like gigantic heads...

i second that.......not too many people like the one on my avatar but i love him and thats why i spent 400 for him and now because bad luck has been on my side lately i have to sell him

 

[madwhitehat]

Thanks for all the feedback guys! The breeder recently got back to me on the strains of his breeders and assured me that the fry are absolutely from a single pair that bred recently. He thinks they will be show quality, but Like I said" I don't care about show quality". I just want a nice looking massive flowerhorn or two. The info he gave me was the female is a double row blue dragon and the male is a pearl golden monkey. He is also sending me pics of a couple other pairs that he hasn't bred that are red lion and red pearl. The fry he has are 5$ a piece and his four inchers from a previous breeding of the pair for 35-80$. I think that I'm going to get 3 fry and a nice 4-5 inch male. When I get pics I'll post them for feedback. Thanks again.

With that mix, you should end up with a pearly monster. You may or may not get the big head, but it will be a nice looking fish either way. I would say if you have the tank space, your idea of getting one big guy and a few fry would be a good idea. Personally though, I would get 5-6 fry and grow them out. With that mix, $5 per fry is a good gamble and not much of a risk in my opinion.


After all this talk lately of Flowerhorns, I'm seriously considering getting back into breeding them. My Blue Dragons were a lot of fun to work with.