New Flowerhorn!
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I bought sumo red flowerhorn food. Hes not eating it though, so i think im gonna have to startve him for a bit. Thanks for all the advice, and his poop as of right now as dark greenish color/brown and stringy.
another question. Can I put some other fish in the tank with the flowerhorn just so he can chase them around and ultimately kill them and eat them for food? I dont mind paying 10 bucks for healthy small fish if it will enable the flowerhorn to acheive nice color and get some good nutrition in.
is Markey shrimp a good food to feed him?He's really stubborn and doesnt like pellets at all. I dont mind feedinghim market shrimp even if it means being more money and less convenient
Stay away from live food. I just use the mirror trick.
Market shrimp is only good as a treat. Get him on pellets ASAP. If you need to you can stuff the shrimp with pellets. But that is only to get him used to pellets. I usually just starve them. Though I have never had to starve a flowerhorn. They always eat pellets with gusto. Lol. He needs a good pellet to make the base of his diet. Flowerhorns aren't very pick eaters. Mines love pellets and will literally eat just about anything offered as a treat.
Nice Flowerhorn if you want his kok and colors to come out get another male and divide them. I do this for juvenile Flowerhorn at 1-3" and all the males pop kok and my females do too. I have high grade imports so females are crazy good genetics. I sold them all after the two nicest ones I kept both died. Male killed female after breeding and then one of the males jumped to the other side and killed him.
I've had some Flowerhorns get spoiled with certain foods to the point where they no longer ate pellets. I had to starve them for several days before they finally ate pellets. At first, they will mouth the pellets and spit them out but eventually they will eat the pellets.
When you starve your fish to get them onto pellets, it's a good idea to introduce multiple types of pellets so your fish gets more variety in their diet. My fish prefer Hikari Cichlids Biogold over New Life Spectrum so when I get new fish, I feed them NLS first when they are more hungry.
I use market shrimp for conditioning and as a treat only, it has similar issues as mealworms and bloodworms. I agree that live foods should be avoided unless it's something like brine shrimp or crickets and grasshoppers. Avoid live bloodworms and feeder fish. Disease is easily passed from one fish to another and can be difficult to rid.
If you want to spoil your fish, you can purchase live Spot Prawns with eggs and feed the eggs to your flowerhorn. The eggs have Astaxanthan and Highly/Poly unsaturated fatty acids and various vitamins and minerals so it will help boost the red color of your fish. Here's what they look like.
Simon
When you starve your fish to get them onto pellets, it's a good idea to introduce multiple types of pellets so your fish gets more variety in their diet. My fish prefer Hikari Cichlids Biogold over New Life Spectrum so when I get new fish, I feed them NLS first when they are more hungry.
I use market shrimp for conditioning and as a treat only, it has similar issues as mealworms and bloodworms. I agree that live foods should be avoided unless it's something like brine shrimp or crickets and grasshoppers. Avoid live bloodworms and feeder fish. Disease is easily passed from one fish to another and can be difficult to rid.
If you want to spoil your fish, you can purchase live Spot Prawns with eggs and feed the eggs to your flowerhorn. The eggs have Astaxanthan and Highly/Poly unsaturated fatty acids and various vitamins and minerals so it will help boost the red color of your fish. Here's what they look like.
Simon
Here is my double sided in tank hanging mirror. I bought two single sided mirrors and a plastic embroidery hoop from the craft store to make it. Took out the middle of the hoop and placed the two mirrors inside the outer ring. It has a metal adjustment on the top that you can tighten down to keep the mirrors in place. Although the metal seems to start to rust after a bit. So I pounded the pin out with a hammer and used zip ties in place (sanded down the ends of the zip ties so it can't poke/scratch/harm my FH). Then some extra fluorocarbon fishing line I had, tied to the middle of the zip ties and to a stick. Voila!
hey guys, update on my flowerhorn. After a month, flowerhorn is finally not shy and super friendly with me. Hes also finally taking sumo pellets. EVerything is great!
