Citrine888

This is Banos, a blue face dragon fh, with female Aji ( a kamalau zenz zhou) :

The second male flowerhorn is Botoy, an Oriental phoenix fh with female Ayeesha, a Red Kimchu fh.

Compared to Banos, Botoy is paler in color, which is typical of the phoenix strain. That is why I paired Botoy with a red based fh, hoping that their offspring will be an improvement of their race.


Thanks for viewing.

Tom

Very beautiful fish.
Tom

Citrine888

Thanks, Tom. Banos won first runner up at a flowerhorn show we had last December 2006 here in Davao City, Philippines. What kind of fish is that in your avatar?

COBettaCouple

Great job! I've never seen a Flowerhorn at any shop that i've been in, very cool fish. How big do they get?

Callum The Cat

Citrine888

Thanks. The biggest I've seen so far is at 12 inches. They get to live upto 10 years or more if you take good care of it.

Citrine888

Hi, Callum, what is LFS? Flowerhorns originated from cichlids and yes you are right, they do get huge when they mature. Flowerhorns are extremely territorial in nature and are very aggresive and that is why when breeding them, more often than not, the female die.

COBettaCouple

Yea, they look like they'd fit in the cichlid family. LFS is local fish store/shop. http://www.fishlore.com/Forum/index.php?topic=11348.0 is a thread with lots of our abbreviations like that listed.

Callum The Cat

Citrine888

Thanks again FLBettaCouple! I really love this forum!!! Everyone is so helpful. This is how our forum should be here in Davao.

COBettaCouple

well, fishlore's there now.

Tom

Give us the site and most of us will go and join.
Tom

Tom

Aren't they a hybrid type of fish? I think I remember reading that somewhere. But I have seen them going for upwards of $129.99CDN and that is for one. A pair would be something like $200-300CDN.
Tom

Citrine888

GREAT! Our forum is still new and running for barely 3 months as of this time. We decided to come up with it so as to bring together fish hobbyists here in Davao City so as to promote the fish keeping hobby. Hope you guys can help us in improving our forum.

COBettaCouple

I don't think Fishlore's too old but it shows what happens when you get a site that people can treat each other good and be crazy about their fish. Since we started, it's REALLY gone wild with how much posting and how many members keep joining.

Cody

wow thats ..a intertesting fish

Citrine888

You're right Tom. Prices for this kind of fish has really gone up. I bought Banos at Php 15,000.00 (philippine currency) and that was last year. If you convert that to usd with a conservative conversion rate of P48.00 to 1 usd, that will be 312.50 USD. It's cheaper if you buy fry and grow them up. Botoy costs around 105 USD, an Oriental Phoenix strain of a flowerhorn and its a local bred already same with Banos.

Citrine888

Yeah, right! That is what i love about this forum. Everyone are such true hobbyists by heart and so fish crazy just as I am