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Flukes on Flowerhorns

Flukes
Their primary mode of killing would ostensibly be through the accumulation of large numbers. Especially in fish fry, the numbers of flukes encountered areaccepted as the cause of mortality simply because they take such a toll on the victim when they occur in large numbers. Based on observations made in practice, however, I would like to introduce my opinion of how just a few flukes can kill a larger fish.

In the process of attacking a host, the flukes dig deely into the epidermis and gill tissue with their haptens. Regardless of species, the flukes are known to carry and inoculate pathogenic bacteria. Flukes from certain areas, and on certain batches of fish carry more and more dangerous and virulent bacteria on their haptens. In this way, discovery of a few flukes on the gills or skin can account for rapid and mortal outbreaks of Aeromonas and Pseudomonas funrunculosis (Ulcer Disease).

Control of flukes has become increasingly easy with contemporary medicine.

Flowerhorns have the following advantages over other cichlids:

They are relatively gentle with unrelated species. I've kept my Flowerhorn "Bebe" with small gold barbs, Leporinus and Cory catfish.

Flowerhorns are more colorful than many more common species of cichlid.

Most importantly, no two Flowerhorns will be identical. You could own a Texas Cichlid for example, but someone else will have one just like yours.

They readily accept pelleted foods so you don't have to cannibalize goldfish or guppies. This makes your fish healthier because they don't catch diseases from their food. Easier, too, to keep a can of pellets than a fishtank of live food.

They max out at thirteen to fourteen inches so they're comfortable in the common 55 and 75 gallon tanks.

Cool: You can usually tell when they're "young" if they will be quality or not.
Judging Flowerhorns
This young fish at right is 2.5 inches long and already shows three of the most important Flowerfish traits; the start of a hump on its nape, a robust red color and a nice row of flowers on the sides. Interestingly, in the smaller sizes, Flowerhorns aren't very aggressive to each other.
The fish at right sold for under $300 - it's a double flowered Red Dragon with a great hump, red eyes, lyre shaped fins, and red in the fins like you see on champions.
The fish at right sold for under $300 too. It's amazing because it combines finnage, red eyes, electric blue and the start of double flowering. It's gone, so stop drooling.

If you want to buy Flowerhorns at reasonable prices, and you don't want to speculate on risky "hope they arrive alive" overseas purchases, you should buy from a North American vendor. There are vendors here in the states who sell excellent quality fish.

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This site does NOT endorse the breeding of any Flowerhorns with missing parts. Tail-less Flowerhorns are, in our opinion, the propagation of a regrettable mutation which materially affects the fish the defect is found in. I do not recommend the purchase of any fish which was bred for missing anatomy.

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