Click through to see the images. The owner of these flowerhorns claims both are alive and well despite the initial aggressive he captured on video.* Flowerhorns are known as very aggressive fish, so it's generally not advisable to keep more than one per tank, and certainly not the best idea in a tank this small.* There are a scary number of videos showing flowerhorns fighting with other flowerhorns, arrowanas, jack dempseys, oscars, red devils, etc. A curious red blood parrot cichlid might be the best part of the whole video.* When it's not photobombing with its cute puffy face, it watches the whole awkward Flowerhorn kiss with keen interest.* Blood parrots are another man-made hybrid but with a much more docile personality. A quick genealogical rundown for Flowerhorns (and for those who have a bone to pick with fancy goldfish and designer clownfish, you may want to skip the next two paragraphs):* They are a relatively new hybridized cichlid that does not occur in the wild.* Originating in the early 1990s, it is believed Asian breeders crossed trimac cichlids (Amphilophus trimaculatus) with red devil cichlids (e.g. Amphilophus labiatus) with who-knows-what-other-cichlids.* The truth is no good documentation exists on the origins of Flowerhorns so their genealogy is murky at best.* They are a mish-mash Frankenstein of whichever cichlid could yield desirable traits. Breeders in Malaysia and Taiwan coveted fish with protruding heads.* Through selective breeding, they were able to create Flowerhorns with highly exaggerated forehead humps.* These protrusions are fat stores called "koks" and were first developed in males, although lesser koks are developing in females of certain strains as well.* The bigger a male's kok, the more desirable the fish.* * Spectacular specimens can command prices in the thousands of dollars.* Successive generations have created bigger and bigger koks. Leer Artículo completo...
