Flowerhorn Care & Fish Tank Setup
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Taking care of Flowerhorn cichlid fish tanks is pretty easy. One of the main concerns is what fish you keep them with as tank mates. A great food for them is this Hikari red blood parrots food. It really blows up their colors and they love it. Here is a link:
Hikari Parrot Food: https://amzn.to/2MKUqC6
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96" long 14" wide 16" tall 93gallons
244cm long 35cm wide 40cm tall 350Liters
This is my dream custom aquarium for bosemani rainbows. Curious what others would do with with a tank like this. Anyone else have a custom dream tank?
Red Tail Shark, For me this fish is one of the best aggressive community fish, given a large enough aquarium. Also I have found that when they are dark and tail red, water chemistry and temp is fine, faded tail & turning grey. 1st signs of trouble. The barometer of the tank. Show me some...hardly seen this fish discussed here.
Oh and cautionary tale: I once had one that lived with a flowerhorn for two months and I could not believe it...then one night I came home and he had him in his mouth and tail out flaunting it for an hour...except flowerhorn... I think they get an undeserved bad rap. They are a great fish in the right community. I've had success with them with barbs, rainbows, loaches and small to medium sized cichlids. If you didn't know they were a freshwater fish, you might think they were a saltwater fish. https://youtu.be/ZErSbysq1p8
I love mine. I've got four , in separate tanks.
They get along with Angel fish , white skirt tetras, glow tetras, pictus cat, and Rosy Barb's. That's just in my 80 gallon tank. I have seven tanks with different fish , a shark in with with everybody except each other. I had one for 2 years in my 90 gallon with no problems. Then one day the switch flipped and he was being horrible to all the fish smaller than him. Never again.
Nitrates are fine. There are very few species that are that sensitive to nitrates. You start seeing significant juvenile mortality around 100 with adult mortality starting around 150. I’ll try to find the study. This study was on tilapia, however, the recommendation was for less than 2200 mg/L as measured by API and most test kits. The study that I can't find at the moment was on a broader range of species but saw mortality increase only in the low to mid 100's.
Your water conditioner should make ammonia/nitrites from your tap water safe long enough for your bacteria to turn it into nitrates. Add plants too if you can, plenty of low tech low maintenance plants or even the floating ones too that can help with nitrates. Nitrates will always go up with stock. No real “steady” parameter. If you’re very heavily stocked, then 2 per week would seem necessary. With 6 neons, don’t worry about it.
Probably. Best way to tell is do a 50% water change. Put a bit of ammonia in and test again in 2 days. If it’s all gone and ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0 and nitrate has gone up again your set. You're good...zero ammonia, zero nitrites, nitrates are 10-20ppm...you're good. Nitrates aren't gonna get much lower even with a water change. Just add fish slowly and do weekly water changes and you'll be fine.
Flowerhorn cichlid Care is easy. You're good to go .. check your pH and make sure it is close to your tap water .. 25% water change to be on the safe side then go to get your fish. Just keep an eye on your parameters for the next few days .. expect a slight rise in ammonia and maybe a mini cycle .. don't panic .. if it happens it's normal and within a couple of days your bacteria will catch up .. if it happens then small steady water changes of 20-30% will be enough to keep the levels in check until your bacteria catches up .. best of luck.
If you breed a Molly with a guppy are the offspring sterile or do the produce guppys or Molly’s or do they produce the guppy Molly hybrids also what are the hybrids called 😂. I’m just wondering if anyone has experimented with this as I would like to aswell. i rearranged my tank 3 days ago and everything was a little hectic between the fish but no actual fighting. well today i found my angel dead and partially eaten. i have no clue which fish did it . r.i.p though little man.
Help! My filter rumbles and it feels like the motor is turning but it won't run. It sucks water up in the tube but then, nothing. I dont want my balloon mollies to suffocate.
I've cleaned it out, and made sure that the water is covering the seals on the intake tube.