Can we breed a peacock cichlid with flowerhorn

I plan to breed a flowerhorn with a peacock cichlid , can I?

 

I plan to breed a flowerhorn with a peacock cichlid , can I?

AggressiveAquatics?

 

Not entirely sure if you would be able to pull it off but it should be possible. Most flowerhorns are not sterile in fact and you can breed them. You can try though. Do you know how to do it with the divider and everything? If not I’ll try and explain. chromedome52 you got anything?

 

Not entirely sure if you would be able to pull it off but it should be possible. Most flowerhorns are not sterile in fact and you can breed them. You can try though. Do you know how to do it with the divider and everything? If not I’ll try and explain

And this is why I call you. Going to go edit my post...

 

Not entirely sure if you would be able to pull it off but it should be possible. Most flowerhorns are not sterile in fact and you can breed them. You can try though. Do you know how to do it with the divider and everything? If not I’ll try and explain

Alright sorry re reading that I sounded like a jerk I don’t mean YOU specifically can’t do it I was saying it can be hard to breed aggressive fish

 

Alright sorry re reading that I sounded like a jerk I don’t mean YOU specifically can’t do it I was saying it can be hard to breed aggressive fish

Just my 2 cents, but to me, your message came off as nice... Everyone reads things differently tho...

 

Flowerhorns were bred from a combination South or Central American cichlids. It seems pretty doubtful if you could breed one with an African cichlid - they are just too far apart. I have never heard of anyone breeding a New World Cichlid and an Old World Cichlid together before.
But I could be wrong

 

Actually, BigBeardDaHuZi has it right. The African and the Central American Cichlids are going to be genetically incompatible. Just the mechanics of breeding a mouthbrooder with a substrate spawner would take this out of the realm of possibility.

There was a thread here in January of 2017 where someone thought their Oscar and OB Peacock had hybridized. There were actual fry present, but they all appeared to be Peacocks. At that point we came to the highly unlikely, but not impossible, explanation that the Peacock had been a rare self fertilizing hermaphrodite.