Flowerhorns ... glassbangers ?
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Musha;4570409; said:
Really interesting observation.
Both my FH's (which both have been really quite tame) were males.
Anyone else any observations about generalised differences in this way between the sexes ?
Certainly with other big cichlids I've kept, the females can often be just as mean as the males, but in a different (maybe more malicious and calculated) way.
My shortbody killed my male trimac of similar size but lets the female parrot of similar size push him around. My other smaller shortbody will always come to the from of the tank even from day one.
Now I am not trying to be dirty but it will be taken that way. It seems like the flowerhorn with the biggest kok just has to show it to you, "Look at it!". Hence glassbangers.
My male looks like he is going to crack the glass and slide on to tjhe floor and bite my ankles when I walk by. The dude is a timberwolf I swear.
go to youtube and check out "captain insano" THAT is a glass bangen flowerhorn!!!! there is red devil among others that make up the flowerhorn strain, so the attitude for the most part will be similar. but then again, every fish is different.
My Male is indeed a glass banger.. He goes nutz when I clean the tank biting EVERYTHING, the vac and my hand. He is about 6" or so and aint scared of anything. If you put your face to the glass the flares and bangs. He especially hates one of my sons friends with bolnd hair, if that kid looks at him he gets those dark stripes and goes crazy..
Jeremy
Jeremy
Depends on how they're treated, IMO.
I have a flowerhorn and Midas about the same size (teenager) in two adjacent tanks, and have noticed that interestingly, as the midas is really agressive (though not a glassbanger, per se, he runs laps with me and does threat displays and lets me touch him), the flowerhorn seems to "think" slower in some way. She's much more contemplative in her actions, and moves much slower. I think this is beacuse of the family history they have being a stalking predator, which often seems to make an animal more self concious and calculating. Whereas the FH takes time and makes exact movements in the water, the Midas uses more brute force and often more effort that is needed. Not to say that one is smarter or more agressive than the other, but they do have markedly different though processes; I believe that this is related historically to their feeding and social strategies. (well, the origin fish for FH anyways, and granted that FH have many different species that vary wideley. In this respect I believe that behaviour has much to do with individual species).
I have a flowerhorn and Midas about the same size (teenager) in two adjacent tanks, and have noticed that interestingly, as the midas is really agressive (though not a glassbanger, per se, he runs laps with me and does threat displays and lets me touch him), the flowerhorn seems to "think" slower in some way. She's much more contemplative in her actions, and moves much slower. I think this is beacuse of the family history they have being a stalking predator, which often seems to make an animal more self concious and calculating. Whereas the FH takes time and makes exact movements in the water, the Midas uses more brute force and often more effort that is needed. Not to say that one is smarter or more agressive than the other, but they do have markedly different though processes; I believe that this is related historically to their feeding and social strategies. (well, the origin fish for FH anyways, and granted that FH have many different species that vary wideley. In this respect I believe that behaviour has much to do with individual species).
In this respect as well, I would think that Jin Kangs/many kind of faders would of course be more of "glassbangers" than nandopsis based FH. This of course excludes "parrot" faders and those with close RBK relation (with its high vieja content)
