When I bought my flowerhorn it had some black patches with blue rings around them. Since then( aprox 2 mths) the patches have all gone away,and the body is covered with blue spangles,and no more red either. The fins are also covered with blue spots intensly. Is this a normal coloration as this fish matures? Sorry no camera for a picture.
Flowerhorn Color
- Thread starter chewey
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The prob is there are so darn many color variations it is rediculous. They all change with age but unless you have a pic its hard to help you but you most likely like you have a 99% chance that its not a trimac. Trimacs are hard to find since the introduction of flowerhorns to the hobby. For a true trimac go to tangledupincichlids.com Jeff Rapps at this site has some and yes they are true trimacs.
flowerhornds can come in jsut about any color becuase of the hybridization with many other types of cichlids. so coloring and type of flowerhgorn is vvery hard to decipher.
I don't keep any FH but have seen many full grown FH in a LFS in Philly Chinatown. Since they are hybrid and highly varibable, only one in a hundred can turn out to be show specimen. So it's worth while to pay more for a larger fish already showing promising color. Majority of them look like ordinary Trimac with variable red on the throat that resembles Firemouth with a hump. Their popularily is probably short lived since they are prolific fish and are so intolerant of other fish that many ended up staying in a loner tank.
I go to 2 LFS out here where I live. But the one I mainly go to was fully stocked like every 3 out of five tanks had Blood Parrots. Then the Flower Horn came out so out with BP in with FH but now they only got 2 tanks with one per tank. They had did the same with Red Tailed Catfish from South America but now they got the normal fish again like Oscar, Green Terrors, Red Devils, Clown Knives and many others.