also is his flower nere the kok also sposed to be tear shaped cuz it dont look round if its not sposed to be then you have a awesome lil FH there with different fetures
this guy's head when young also looks like a trimac. that means his kok will be hard however... but he is not similar to the trimac in that he is a monsterkok breed... he has grown quite a head since then but it will always be hard... that means he got the kok gene more from the trimac/lyonsi complex but in order to be large the breed was sported... as timacs and lyonsi do not have such a large head in the wild.
Here is an example of flowerhorn which lend the head more to trimac/lyonsi instead of midas
however you will never see a trimac with a head larger than these fish... and only the most OG trimacs get big heads.
here is an example of a midas (1) and a flowerhorn (2) with similar heads meaning similar genetics
also is his flower nere the kok also sposed to be tear shaped cuz it dont look round if its not sposed to be then you have a awesome lil FH there with different fetures
also... heres some pics to show the red. trimac and lyonsi both have pink/reddish throats, but heres some pics to show where the red markings come from in most red zz flowerhorns (red dragons)
Red Dragon FH
Line Bred Thai Redhead cichlid (aka vieja synspilum). this is where the front half red gene origionally comes from in zzrd
omg that vieja is amazing same with that FH i gotta say though im not to crazy bout the massive koks on some that RD above the vieja i think has a perfectly sized kok on it IMO