The Origins Of The Flowerhorn Cichlid - How The Flowerhorn Was Made

The Origins Of The Flowerhorn Cichlid

[@wyzemann]

Exciting yet ominous. Money over morals will inevitably make hybridization a messy and confusing affair especially when too many unqualified fish keepers start overbreeding low quality stock.

[@wobbegong9958]

The flowerhorn is a good hybrid because it is distinct, you are probably not going to mistake it for any other cichlid and it probably won't be sold as any other cichlid. The problem with some hybrids is that some of them tend to look just like one of their parents, except with a few of the wrong genes. It would suck to go to the fish store and buy one fish and then see it behave or start to look like a completely different fish. Hybridizing fish can also take away what is special about them. If everybody just hybridizing any fish they want then eventually none of those fish will really be its own thing. Right now there are electric blue morphs of 3 different cichlids, the jack dempsey, the electric blue ram and the electric blue acara. You can still find the regular rams and jack dempseys in stores but you can't find the regular blue acara. That is a shame because the wild type blue acara if properly cared for is a beautiful and unique fish, but unfortunately now stores only sell the hybrid variety with its cheap electric blue color. Hybridizing fish isn't just like making different dog breeds, these are completely different species which have developed their own unique traits over thousands of years.

[@crystalpyramid5413]

thank you for the information

[@bumblebeebrass164]

Oh it’s man made no wonder they always die and get diseases, like how bulldogs are a Frankenstein and have trouble breathing and basically doing anything

[@archktik5408]

Cool!

[@randomeventstv]

What about the trimac?

[@crashtheatre3073]

1:25

[@krispy3681]

The original flowerhorn was in Thailand. It was based off of a Trimac and Vieja syn

[@tydang9330]

So why does other sites say its bred with a trimac

[@zebedeemadness2672]

The primary species for the Flowerhorn cichlids are Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) or Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus) cross Trimac cichlids (Cichlasoma Trimaculatus).

[@Phillytrolls]

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[@JimmyJohanes]

so they can breed between genus?

[@hal-c]

Sounds kinda like you're doing an impression of LeVar Burton 😆

[@TheAnnoyedGurkhaTAG]

RIP Frank ☹️

[@LAKush90]

What about TRIMAC?!?!

[@vinratensei7935]

I don't understand why people love them so much 🤔😐😐

[@captainobvious9230]

Hi guys I'm thinking of getting a 30-40 gallon tank and I need to know if these fish could live together: 1 male betta fish, 3 honey gourami, 3 guppies, 2 Platys , 2 sword tails, ember tetras,neon tetras and Apple snails with yellow rabbit snails could this work?

[@fishmansf4573]

I actually have kept a hybrid fish. It was my red tail/tiger shovelnose catfish hybrid.

[@cutefish7317]

Flowerhorn are not hardy fish. They have the same lifespan of a guppy fish.

[@acecaldwell4701]

Flowerhorn are part parrot an part trimac not red devil i mean i think u could but my red dragons are 50 50 of parrot an trimac no red devil an mine are certified red drogon flowerhorn