Thai silk flower horn.

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electroshadow

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Picked this little guy up on a whim about 6 months ago for £3 from my LFS he was about 1.5inch at the time.
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Although is now quite a bit bigger :D. I have just moved him to his own tank as he has been scrapping resulting in him getting some scale damage.




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Awesome man. How big would you say he is now and what have you been feeding him. I have one just got him he's about 1" right now so it's cool you posted this gives me an idea on growth rate.

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I would probably say 6.5 to 8" just about caught him in a 10" net.

He's been eating blood worm pellets and catfish pellets approx 44% protein. As a staple and with some treats once a week.

And by this size he has some nice teeth

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That's great man can't wait to get mine bigger.



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Nice flowerhorn there:thumbup: hopefully the black line a tail spot will either grow out or created a flower.

My fishes black spot grew out which was lucky I'm told as its rare on most Thai silks.
I'm now hoping that a few of his battle scars return to blue now, as his kok has started to blue over.

Now I'm intrested as to whether Thai silks have different backgrounds as a few features of this fish don't seem to match up.

Kok starting to colour up
Protruding red eyes
Large mouth no under bite.
Solid vertical fin colouring and large wrap around fin structure.
Also body is long and thick with a strong tail.


Anyone have any ideas?

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Only been in its own tank for 5 days and already its kok seems to be growing and starting to colour right over:D
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Hopefully this one will colour right over.

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I've grow this one up in my community tank from about 1".
Too be honest I can't remember if this one is one of my fry from my female Texas/parrot and another Thai silk I had or if it was one I was given a my local fish shop on a trade in.?
Either way he's nice:D

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The flowerhorns tank had a leak so I had to do an emergency fix. So for a day the FH went in a 75g with some catfish bottom dwellers.

And the fh killed my Raphael catfish of all things. Chewed its head off.:eek: I wouldn't of thought a fh was capable of that its not as though the catfish anyway near fitted in its mouth.


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