My new flowerhorns. Please rate them.

[sezaro21]

Hello everyone. I have been on this site for a while just lurking and some of these flowerhorns are just amazing and beautiful. I purchased a flowerhorn about 2 months back. Just wanted to introduce him to the group.
What he looked like when I saw him in the store.

What he looked like when I brought him home and placed him in a tank with black gravel and black background.

This what he looked like after I changed the background to blue and lighted up the gravel with some pink and white gravel.

 

[sezaro21]

Here are some updated photos of him now 2 months later.

 

[sezaro21]

I bought him a female a month back because I would like to breed him. I got her at Petsmart for $6. They thought she was a low class fire mouth Cichlid. Last pic shows the difference in size between the male and female. Please let me know what you guys think of my fish. Currently feeding them Hakari Bio Gold pellets, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, freeze dried krill and I just ordered Hakari Red Blood Parrot pellets.

 

[sezaro21]

Damm. The pictures got all scrambled and not posted the right order.

 

[sezaro21]

Can anyone tell me what type they are. The store owner for the male told me it wa s a Magma flowerhorn. Can anyone confirm that. Also, what type is the female?

 

[islandguy11]

You have 2 nice but pretty average looking ZZ Red Dragons. But an average looking FH is still awesome given their cool personalities. Monikers like 'Magma', 'Super Tornado' etc. are basically made up names by breeders for marketing purposes and mean virtually nothing.

Diet looks pretty good, though some say freeze dried krill can irritate the (generally sensitive) digestive tract of FH's; personally I'm not sure this is true but have avoided feeding them since learning about the possibility.

 

[NewOrleansLA]

That female is nice. Reminds me of my old female flowerhorn that was probably my favorite fish back then. Kinda makes me wanna get a new one haha.