Has anyone kept a flowerhorn with frontosa
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BAD IDEA. flowerhorn get bigger, are more agressive, and more active. fronts are slow, not particularly smart, and only seem to fight among themselves... almost like "discus of africa" as i like to call them...
I understand you want to keep them together but its really a bad idea. Even if someone has and it worked out doesn't mean it will with you. Frontosa like to be keep in groups and flowerhorn don't always do well with tankmates. At one point you will end up with either a flowerhorn or a frontosa.
Fronts are far too good of a fish to do that to them. I won't even put the lowly common pleco with my FH. I had a 12" in there with him, but he started attacking him daily.
99% of the time it would be death to the frontosa.
I knew a guy that had a couple 500 gallon aquariums, he stuffed everything in there, he would import quite rare fish.
ANyway, he had Moba in there with flowerhorn.
course remember this was a huge tank.
I also knew a guy who had a pair of red texas in with a frontosa colony in a 100 gallon tank. Some red's are mean, some are much less aggressive.
I had a female red texas in a 125 with frontosa colony, they ignored each other.
I should not say any of this, because now people will try it, and kill a frontosa.
I knew a guy that had a couple 500 gallon aquariums, he stuffed everything in there, he would import quite rare fish.
ANyway, he had Moba in there with flowerhorn.
course remember this was a huge tank.
I also knew a guy who had a pair of red texas in with a frontosa colony in a 100 gallon tank. Some red's are mean, some are much less aggressive.
I had a female red texas in a 125 with frontosa colony, they ignored each other.
I should not say any of this, because now people will try it, and kill a frontosa.
yes i have found out form memebers of the forum that its a bad idea to mix themFish_Man_Dan;4640761; said:
I only asked the question bcoz i saw some videos of flowerhorn with frontosa therefore i asked that have someone on forum kept these two cichlids together
The link to the videos i watched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOWbpAixVIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BZVXR_3aI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxTo15tllY
Well more fish reduces aggression on a single fish but if you watch the first video it chases the texas and severum away.
IMO flowerhorns should be kept alone. Even if you have a mild tempered one that seems to do ok with other fish, and you keep it with other fish, you may come home one day to a tank with only your FH in it. Too unpredictable to be kept with others.
Plus, they just look out of place when kept with non-hybrids.
Plus, they just look out of place when kept with non-hybrids.