How is this flowerhorn..??

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Bigbigwhitecat

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Hi


I have this flowerhorn for about two months now. Its about 3.5-4 inches (tail excluded). 2 months back when I bought this it was about 2 inches.


I am completely new to this hobby, but fell in love, with flowerhorns the first time I saw the pictures on the net.


This fish is doing good. It eats well. I am giving it dried worms and pellets, also dried vary small prawns. Also dried shrimps.


I would like to get your comments on

  1. Will the fish get a kok ( bumpy head)..?
  2. Hows the coloring of the fish. It is turning yellow and pink.
  3. Hows the groath of the fish
  4. What would be the age.
  5. Will it grow up to be beautifull fish.
* I love my fish.


Please comment

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Fish looks to be 5 months old, give or take.
If it is a Male, then it will grow a Kok.
They grow very quickly, as a result of Heterosis, or "Hybrid Vigor".


Looks beautiful, showing some of it's Trimac roots.
 
  1. Will the fish get a kok( bumpy head)..? time will tell, too soon to know for sure. if i had to throw out a random guess i'd say female which means no kok.
  2. Hows the coloring of the fish. It is turning yellow and pink. the coloring is nice, its a flowerhorn so it can peel out and change color at any time though so keep that in mind.
  3. Hows the growth of the fish? an inch a month is about average until it hits around six inches. since youve had yours for 2 months and about 2 inches, id say your in good shape.
  4. What would be the age? i agree with largemouthbass, its probably around 4-6 months, maybe younger.
  5. Will it grow up to be beautiful fish? it should, but it can peel and change so only time will tell.
answers in yellow.:)

P.S. nice heniochus in the background.
 
normally you can see signs as early as like 2.5 inches, or as big as like 7 inches.
 
this fish appears to have very strong trimac genes present. taking that in account this fish will more then likely not get a water head. it might however get a sort of bony head bump.

the age of your fish is pure speculation on anyones part, honestly. on average once a fish hits 2inches it's usually a inch a month up till around 7-8inches.

when this fish is old enough to mature out. it will probably look alot like a trimac. this is based on those photos you provided. given the quality isn't to good, but to me the fish is VERY trimac looking.
 
it won't get much of a kok bud, at that size it would be showing allready. And females can get kok so you can't go by that. Look at some of the JaPro females, some have kok just like the males allmost so can't go by the kok. Just as you can't go by the black spot on the dorsal, it's a female rule either. I would guess yours is a female though by the body shape. Peeling/fading is not a bad thing, when it's finished fading, you get sweet yellow/orange colors afterwards. Especially if they fade 100%. With as yellow as that fish it, I would allmost say it has some Jing Kang blood in it, but is ZZ IMO. It's showing the vertical stress bars, so if you can get rid of those I think the yellow base will be even brighter.
 
Thanks a lot every one..:).

Any sugestions for improving the kon and the color. I know the green lines are because of the stress, or some problem in the fish.. Any sugestions for gettign rid of it..

I change 30-40% water once in 3 days. and complete cleaning of the tank every 20 days.
This is a 80 liters tank with, 1FH, 1OSCAR of the same size, 2 Parrots and 2, Jwell chichlets.

The FH is the most dominating one and the bigest one amongs all of them.

The filteration i have is one underbed filter and and one biological filter.
 
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