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my flowerhorns..
« Thread Started on Oct 8, 2009, 10:05am »

hey,i want to share my flowerhorn photos.

1st is my 1st ever flowerhorn,he is a male and is a year old now.his name is "d-day".inspired from wor;d war 2.like that time,this flowerhorn was the start of my "craze" over them.hehe!

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next is another male,named "battle of stalingrad".

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #1 on Oct 8, 2009, 12:38pm »

Beautiful pictures!

How big is this guy (inches/centimeters)?

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« Reply #2 on Oct 8, 2009, 3:40pm »

Nice pictures. What a beautiful fish!

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« Reply #3 on Oct 8, 2009, 9:26pm »

Oct 8, 2009, 12:38pm, Carl wrote:

Beautiful pictures!

How big is this guy (inches/centimeters)?

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d-day is now 7 inches.but i guess he is of "low quality" for flowerhorn enthusiast,he doesn't have big nuchal hump or "kok".

stalingrad is just 4 inches.

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« Reply #4 on Oct 8, 2009, 10:10pm »

next is "iwo jima",a male too.he's 4 inches.

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and here is my girlfriend's flowerhorn,it's a female and is now a year and 5months old.she's huge!12inches!she is actually a "vintage" or one of those 1st generations of flowerhorns.it doesn't have "pearls"(the neon like/shiny spots like that of texas cichlids).vintage fh are rare nowadays.

.i bought her as a present for my girlfriend

.her name is "isda",which means fish in filipino(very creative..lol!)

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #5 on Oct 9, 2009, 9:57am »

Oct 8, 2009, 9:26pm, danny wrote:

Oct 8, 2009, 12:38pm, Carl wrote:

Beautiful pictures!

How big is this guy (inches/centimeters)?

Carl

d-day is now 7 inches.but i guess he is of "low quality" for flowerhorn enthusiast,he doesn't have big nuchal hump or "kok".

stalingrad is just 4 inches.

The nuchal hump may not be very big, but the colors are awesome, so I think you can still be proud of your fish

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #6 on Oct 9, 2009, 2:14pm »

absolutely gorgeous fish Danny! something you should be very proud of!

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« Reply #7 on Oct 9, 2009, 7:38pm »

Very beautiful fish! I love the red on them!

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #8 on Oct 17, 2009, 6:53am »

thanks again!i am proud of these guys...
here are the others...they are my favorites!

1st is this guy,named "bastogne"..

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next is my latest flowerhorn and by far the most expensive fish i ever bought.he is worth 1,000pesos or $20..i named him "easy company"

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i'll post my last fh...got no photos yet..

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #9 on Oct 17, 2009, 11:18am »

They do have pretty patterns on them! Your latest one is super cute!

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #10 on Oct 17, 2009, 10:07pm »

WOW, some nice fish there, clear shots too. My fav is your GFs, she pretty. Thanks for sharing danny =)

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #11 on Oct 18, 2009, 3:04pm »

have you sexed these flowerhorns??? the females are beautiful as well but don`t possess these nochal humps. by the way....$20 for a flowerhorn ids great. we pay $300 plus for them here in canada. they are the only hybrid i really like and yours are beautiful...

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Re: my flowerhorns..
« Reply #12 on Oct 23, 2009, 10:36am »

Oct 17, 2009, 11:18am, babygeige wrote:

They do have pretty patterns on them! Your latest one is super cute!

thank you!his my 2nd favorite.hehe!that is one reason why i love flowerhorns is that individuals will have unique patterns,no 2 flowerhorns will have same patterns.that is why there is no guarantee to get fry with pretty patterns even if the parents are both gorgeous.

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« Reply #13 on Oct 23, 2009, 10:42am »

Oct 17, 2009, 10:07pm, DaharkazAngel wrote:

WOW, some nice fish there, clear shots too. My fav is your GFs, she pretty. Thanks for sharing danny =)

thank you!..it took a lot of shot before i got those good shots.they are really active,begging for foods always.

i added you as my friend in youtube.thanks for adding me.

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« Reply #14 on Oct 23, 2009, 10:44am »

Oct 18, 2009, 3:04pm, bikeguy33 wrote:

yes i did.there are also some "methods" we use to determine who females are.

,although it's not always accurate just as to other fish.

some of my males are now showing potential to having nuchal hump.
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« Reply #15 on Oct 23, 2009, 10:58am »

here is the last flowerhorn in my collection(for now)..
he may look stressed or sick or beaten up,but actually it's normal they look this way.they are called "faders/faded" flowerhorn.it is actually a xanthic.kinda like an albino.(eg. pink convicts,cambodian bettas are xanthic...i think).i don't know about other fish,but fader flowerhorns undergo this process as if they are molting,1st they may be colored then all of the sudden the color will fade.some parts will actually blacken.when i 1st saw a fader,i thought it's a form of cruelty,that they inject something into an ordinary flowerhorn just to make their markings disappear.
here is my fader.

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