Flowerhorn domestic violence..

Subject: Re: Flowerhorn domestic violence.. Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:40 am

LOL the joys of having large Cichlids :muah:

_________________
"There he goes - one of God's own prototypes -
a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Turtle Whisperer Posts: 1914

Actually the flowerhorn has been alone since I've gotten him here. Everything I've been reading about them says they're advanced evil though. Smile

Oh and I forgot. Not sure if the Midas were trying to breed or what, but all the aggression was over a single flower pot. I removed the pot and they all went back to being fairly oke. I'm sure it will be something else soon enough but so far so good.

If it's at all possible. Once he heals up, I'd like to keep the 3 Parrots in with him as the tank of hybrids. Smile

The parrots seem fairly well behaved. They don't take no crap, but they don't seem to start it either.

Subject: Re: Flowerhorn domestic violence.. Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:54 pm

Parrots have similar behavior traits as Severums don't start stuff but dont take it.....That mix might work.

_________________
"There he goes - one of God's own prototypes -
a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Subject: Re: Flowerhorn domestic violence.. Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:58 pm

Quote:

I forget the gallonage, but they had a 2x3x2 tank on sale at Nemo's last week. I believe it was a 90 tall or extra tall or something around that. Wonder if that would work.

You would be correct on it being a 90 gallon tall or to be exact, if my calculator is correct 89.77gallons. I know you are way past this in your discussion here, but I know jack sh*t about Flowerhorns. Your posts are always worth the time to read saint.

_________________

Banned Posts: 910 Age: 18

I have had the wimpest severum ever. I had no problems keeping him with discus two years ago till he died. I miss him. I never had a mean sev though.
Alex

Subject: Re: Flowerhorn domestic violence.. Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:30 pm

Silver Dollar dude wrote:

I have had the wimpest severum ever. I had no problems keeping him with discus two years ago till he died. I miss him. I never had a mean sev though.
Alex

Per this post....

Silver Dollar dude wrote:

I had kept discus 2 years ago when I was 13. They would hide like yous until I add dither fish like tetras and silverdollars. Then they were busy chasing and schooling lol... I then add a silver arowana, angels and sevs... lived together for a year.. discus died, then sevs and then finally the angels.

I would say that you had problems???

_________________
"There he goes - one of God's own prototypes -
a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Turtle Whisperer Posts: 1914

I've read that the Parrots are suspected to be originally part Severum, so that may be why.

89.77 is close enough. Wink

If I do that size tank I imagine I'll eventually have to find a new home for the Parrots when the FH gets big. The next biggest tank they have is a significant jump in price, so if I do anything right now, I'll be doing that one.

In other news, this flowerhorn has been the absolute quickest fish ever to be trained to be hand fed. That's a new record for me. Smile