Exciting yet ominous. Money over morals will inevitably make hybridization a messy and confusing affair especially when too many unqualified fish keepers start overbreeding low quality stock. So, more species education and knowledge must spread faster than us willful and ignorant fish keeper’s desire to “breed everything”.
The flowerhorn is a good hybrid because it is distinct, you are probably not going to mistake it for any other cichlid and it probably won't be sold as any other cichlid. The problem with some hybrids is that some of them tend to look just like one of their parents, except with a few of the wrong genes. It would suck to go to the fish store and buy one fish and then see it behave or start to look like a completely different fish. Hybridizing fish can also take away what is special about them. If everybody just hybridizing any fish they want then eventually none of those fish will really be its own thing. Right now there are electric blue morphs of 3 different cichlids, the jack dempsey, the electric blue ram and the electric blue acara. You can still find the regular rams and jack dempseys in stores but you can't find the regular blue acara. That is a shame because the wild type blue acara if properly cared for is a beautiful and unique fish, but unfortunately now stores only sell the hybrid variety with its cheap electric blue color. Hybridizing fish isn't just like making different dog breeds, these are completely different species which have developed their own unique traits over thousands of years.
The primary species for the Flowerhorn cichlids are Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) or Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus) cross Trimac cichlids (Cichlasoma Trimaculatus).
@@jayawilson1100 Just to add the Trimac cichlids has changed genus from (Cichlasoma) to (Amphilophus), making them now the same genus as the Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus), and Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus), so are more related to them than originally thought.
hey, Gus I finally got a fish tank. I finally got a fish tank. I'm getting platinum gouramis, silver tip tetras, black phantom tetras, red fire dwarf gouramis, red honey gourami, panda corydoras, dalmatian molly, albino bristle nose pleco and last but not least the powder blue dwarf gourami. When i get my tank watch my video would love to show u.
Unique look, a animal doesn’t necessarily have to look cute and pretty. People that like Flowehorn are fascinated by its odd appearance, aggressive behaviour, and the badass look they have even if they look strange. They are also fascinating as a hybrid
Hi guys I'm thinking of getting a 30-40 gallon tank and I need to know if these fish could live together: 1 male betta fish, 3 honey gourami, 3 guppies, 2 Platys , 2 sword tails, ember tetras,neon tetras and Apple snails with yellow rabbit snails could this work?
Flowerhorn are not hardy fish. They have the same lifespan of a guppy fish. Once they reached adulthood at one year of age they become inactive and get depressed. There are NO UA-cam videos of Flowerhorn over 2 years of age.
Flowerhorn are part parrot an part trimac not red devil i mean i think u could but my red dragons are 50 50 of parrot an trimac no red devil an mine are certified red drogon flowerhorn
Idk how ur able to breed a blood parrot cichlid when their born sterile bc their also hybrids & like most all hybrids in the animal kingdom are all sterile. So I’m at a loss I guess
Not all hybrids are infertile, if the hybrids are infertile it's typically the males that are infertile, offspring can come from a hybrid female to a pure fertile male breeding, for example a Jellybean cichlid female can have offspring with a pure fertile Midas cichlid male. But Jellybean cichlids aren't involved in Flowerhorn cichlids anyway, that would be Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) or Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus) cross Trimac cichlids (Cichlasoma Trimaculatus). I call "Blood parrot cichlids" Jellybean cichlids, that are likely the crossing of Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) cross Banded cichlids (Heros severus) + the genetic trait short body (fish dwarfisum). As there's is already a pure species of cichlid called the Parrot cichlid found in South America, the South Parrot cichlid (Hoplarchus psittacus).
@@zebedeemadness2672 there is no evidence of severum being involved In the creation of blood parrots. I highly doubt that severum can even produce offspring with CA ciclids. It has been confirmed that the blood parrot body shape is a deformity from the hybridization of midas cichlids and synspilum. Also, many, if not most flowerhorn breeds do have blood parrot in there lineage. You are right in trimac being part of the mix.
@@wan2shuffle Problem with that is (Amphilophus) X (Vieja) throws fertile male hybrids, Jellybean cichlids males aren't known for their fertility. They body shape is a separate trait called short body (fish dwarfism) that doesn't affect the mouth shape, but jellybean cichlids have that twisted looking mouth area, that looks more (Herous) influenced, also short body is seen in other species it's not exclusive to Jellybean cichlids, a (Amphilophus) X (Heros) would explain the male infertility as (Amphilophus) & (Heros) are less related to each other, with (Amphilophus) being a Central American genus, and (Heros) being a South American genus. Than (Amphilophus) X (Vieja) are, as both are Central American genus. I don't know if (Amphilophus) & (Heros) would freely breed with each other, but if you have a facility big enough to house many (as the Asian breeders often do), you can strip the females of eggs before they drop and milk the males of a different species, like they do with salmon of course Salmon , of course with salmon males and females are of the same species. Here is a short body Golden banded cichlid (Heros), not the resembles of the mouth. ua-cam.com/video/jIh0xyQlLek/v-deo.html
I have a flowerhorn however I don’t really enjoy how the videos show its spitting it’s food out & basically sucking on it. Just eat it already stop playing w it.
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Exciting yet ominous. Money over morals will inevitably make hybridization a messy and confusing affair especially when too many unqualified fish keepers start overbreeding low quality stock.
So, more species education and knowledge must spread faster than us willful and ignorant fish keeper’s desire to “breed everything”.
The flowerhorn is a good hybrid because it is distinct, you are probably not going to mistake it for any other cichlid and it probably won't be sold as any other cichlid. The problem with some hybrids is that some of them tend to look just like one of their parents, except with a few of the wrong genes. It would suck to go to the fish store and buy one fish and then see it behave or start to look like a completely different fish. Hybridizing fish can also take away what is special about them. If everybody just hybridizing any fish they want then eventually none of those fish will really be its own thing. Right now there are electric blue morphs of 3 different cichlids, the jack dempsey, the electric blue ram and the electric blue acara. You can still find the regular rams and jack dempseys in stores but you can't find the regular blue acara. That is a shame because the wild type blue acara if properly cared for is a beautiful and unique fish, but unfortunately now stores only sell the hybrid variety with its cheap electric blue color. Hybridizing fish isn't just like making different dog breeds, these are completely different species which have developed their own unique traits over thousands of years.
thank you for the information
Cool!
What about the trimac?
1:25 *STICKS TONGUE OUT*
Crash Theatre lol
The original flowerhorn was in Thailand. It was based off of a Trimac and Vieja syn
it was in malaysia and indonesia
So why does other sites say its bred with a trimac
so they can breed between genus?
The primary species for the Flowerhorn cichlids are Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) or Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus) cross Trimac cichlids (Cichlasoma Trimaculatus).
Was looking for this
@@jayawilson1100 Just to add the Trimac cichlids has changed genus from (Cichlasoma) to (Amphilophus), making them now the same genus as the Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus), and Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus), so are more related to them than originally thought.
Trimacs have the red eyes, none of the others do.
@@zero-uz6ok Flowerhorn cichlids aren't Trimac cichlids, they are Hybrids involving them, and load of Flowerhorn cichlids have red eyes.
@@zebedeemadness2672 yes flower horns have red eyes from the trimacs in their cross breeding.
RIP Frank ☹️
hey, Gus I finally got a fish tank. I finally got a fish tank. I'm getting platinum gouramis, silver tip tetras, black phantom tetras, red fire dwarf gouramis, red honey gourami, panda corydoras, dalmatian molly, albino bristle nose pleco and last but not least the powder blue dwarf gourami. When i get my tank watch my video would love to show u.
Sounds kinda like you're doing an impression of LeVar Burton 😆
I get that a lot😂
What about TRIMAC?!?!
I actually have kept a hybrid fish. It was my red tail/tiger shovelnose catfish hybrid.
Did you cross breed it or were you told it was a cross breed?
I don't understand why people love them so much 🤔😐😐
Unique look, a animal doesn’t necessarily have to look cute and pretty. People that like Flowehorn are fascinated by its odd appearance, aggressive behaviour, and the badass look they have even if they look strange. They are also fascinating as a hybrid
Hi guys I'm thinking of getting a 30-40 gallon tank and I need to know if these fish could live together: 1 male betta fish, 3 honey gourami, 3 guppies, 2 Platys , 2 sword tails, ember tetras,neon tetras and Apple snails with yellow rabbit snails could this work?
Nooo just fry them all
Flowerhorn are not hardy fish. They have the same lifespan of a guppy fish.
Once they reached adulthood at one year of age they become inactive and get depressed.
There are NO UA-cam videos of Flowerhorn over 2 years of age.
Mine is lol, look back at my upload date (: he's happy and healthy right now
@@myaquariuminfo His happy days are numbered.
Foo the Flowerhorn
Flowerhorn are part parrot an part trimac not red devil i mean i think u could but my red dragons are 50 50 of parrot an trimac no red devil an mine are certified red drogon flowerhorn
Idk how ur able to breed a blood parrot cichlid when their born sterile bc their also hybrids & like most all hybrids in the animal kingdom are all sterile. So I’m at a loss I guess
Not all hybrids are infertile, if the hybrids are infertile it's typically the males that are infertile, offspring can come from a hybrid female to a pure fertile male breeding, for example a Jellybean cichlid female can have offspring with a pure fertile Midas cichlid male. But Jellybean cichlids aren't involved in Flowerhorn cichlids anyway, that would be Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) or Red devils (Amphilophus latiatus) cross Trimac cichlids (Cichlasoma Trimaculatus). I call "Blood parrot cichlids" Jellybean cichlids, that are likely the crossing of Midas cichlids (Amphilophus citrinellus) cross Banded cichlids (Heros severus) + the genetic trait short body (fish dwarfisum). As there's is already a pure species of cichlid called the Parrot cichlid found in South America, the South Parrot cichlid (Hoplarchus psittacus).
@@zebedeemadness2672 there is no evidence of severum being involved In the creation of blood parrots. I highly doubt that severum can even produce offspring with CA ciclids. It has been confirmed that the blood parrot body shape is a deformity from the hybridization of midas cichlids and synspilum. Also, many, if not most
flowerhorn breeds do have blood parrot in there lineage. You are right in trimac being part of the mix.
@@wan2shuffle Problem with that is (Amphilophus) X (Vieja) throws fertile male hybrids, Jellybean cichlids males aren't known for their fertility. They body shape is a separate trait called short body (fish dwarfism) that doesn't affect the mouth shape, but jellybean cichlids have that twisted looking mouth area, that looks more (Herous) influenced, also short body is seen in other species it's not exclusive to Jellybean cichlids, a (Amphilophus) X (Heros) would explain the male infertility as (Amphilophus) & (Heros) are less related to each other, with (Amphilophus) being a Central American genus, and (Heros) being a South American genus. Than (Amphilophus) X (Vieja) are, as both are Central American genus. I don't know if (Amphilophus) & (Heros) would freely breed with each other, but if you have a facility big enough to house many (as the Asian breeders often do), you can strip the females of eggs before they drop and milk the males of a different species, like they do with salmon of course Salmon , of course with salmon males and females are of the same species.
Here is a short body Golden banded cichlid (Heros), not the resembles of the mouth. ua-cam.com/video/jIh0xyQlLek/v-deo.html
I have a flowerhorn however I don’t really enjoy how the videos show its spitting it’s food out & basically sucking on it. Just eat it already stop playing w it.
ok