What are Best Tankmates for Flowerhorns!

[Aquatic Planet]

Anyone here can do a Flowerhorn Community Tank with Other Tankmates?

Besides sucker fishes, any other tank mates like oscar? tigers? etc?:D :)

[SniperY]

Parrot fish. I used to put them with my lh :)

[poseidon]

and my little creature like catfish:) dont know what is it!:)

[Aquatic Planet]

Parrot fish. I used to put them with my lh :)
yup, yup! parrot fish mixes well with flowerhorns!!:D
hmm, wonder any other fish can swim with flowerhorns like aro?:D

[Aquatic Planet]

and my little creature like catfish:) dont know what is it!:)
haha!! yeah, that funny creature!! Take a pic and show those who dunt hv the chance to c!!:D

[SniperY]

haha!! yeah, that funny creature!! Take a pic and show those who dunt hv the chance to c!!:DYa i saw that, fat little creature :D

[Mystique]

A wide range. depandant on level of hobbyist. Some can have flowerhorns living well with arowana, tigers and even chilids.

Anyone can add on to the list?:)

[SniperY]

LH with Aro i saw it before (Marine parade), but tigers and cichlids, i think the tigers will be black like charcoal, cichlids become LH feeder :D

[poseidon]

my fh mate!:)

[Aquarian]

My LH killed the tankmate, BP

Anything i put in sure kena killed eventually, so depends on the temperament of your LH before u decide

[Argonian]

My LH killed the tankmate, BP

Anything i put in sure kena killed eventually, so depends on the temperament of your LH before u decide

so sad to hear that...my condolence to you.

[Theo9902]

BP. The best training partner for FH :D

[Aquatic Planet]

thks to all for comments. Still learning, i'm new to flowerhorns.:D

[Aquatic Planet]

can flowerhorns comm with discus?:D

[Theo9902]

i think discus "cham" liao :D

can flowerhorns comm with discus?:D

[SniperY]

can flowerhorns comm with discus?:DI think you dun torture your discus lah, my house got extra 2ft tank :D

[SniperY]

My LH killed the tankmate, BP

Anything i put in sure kena killed eventually, so depends on the temperament of your LH before u decideIt is normal lah bro, i also forgot how many BP and pelcos died inside my LH tanl liao :rolleyes:

[Theo9902]

sometimes I feel LH is more fierce than aro........

It is normal lah bro, i also forgot how many BP and pelcos died inside my LH tanl liao :rolleyes:

[Aquatic Planet]

ok, then how about comm LHs with tigers?:D

[Aquatic Planet]

ok, then how about comm LHs with tigers?:D
can boh?anyone tried?:D

[Jing Hua]

can boh?anyone tried?:D

My last LH will kill anything in his tank ... very dominating ... :sad:

U name it, tried alomost all affordable species and ofcos not the expensives type...

So it will depends on temperment of your LH ...

Some LH will even get bullied by BP ... :crying:

[monster]

ok, then how about comm LHs with tigers?:D
luo han best keep one tank. no need try so many.:stick_out_tongue:

[Uncle Tan]

Yalor, the best is one fish one tank or with divider. But i believe many bro & sis would like the fish to comm with others so can breed ma.:huh:

[Jing Hua]

Yalor, the best is one fish one tank or with divider. But i believe many bro & sis would like the fish to comm with others so can breed ma.:huh:

I have tries alot of breeding methods and actually most works ...

male or female can also nurture the fries lor ... thats my experience ... but the parentage not so good and since i'm not a real breeder ... many died along the way and the few stong who survive were given to all my close ones ... results? not too bad ZZ lor ... kekee :big_smile:

[Aquatic Planet]

I have tries alot of breeding methods and actually most works ...

male or female can also nurture the fries lor ... thats my experience ... but the parentage not so good and since i'm not a real breeder ... many died along the way and the few stong who survive were given to all my close ones ... results? not too bad ZZ lor ... kekee :big_smile:


Breeder!! i got a sexy female , do u want to try breeding for fish-hub.com experiment????

I generously can allow you to try!!!:big_smile:

[Uncle Tan]

Wow, very interesting leh. Could try to breed again ? Take picture bo ? Start new thread and show the progress. Sure all will be very excited.:big_smile:

I have tries alot of breeding methods and actually most works ...

male or female can also nurture the fries lor ... thats my experience ... but the parentage not so good and since i'm not a real breeder ... many died along the way and the few stong who survive were given to all my close ones ... results? not too bad ZZ lor ... kekee :big_smile:

[PhanX]

would it matter how big the tank mate is?
my FH is around 2-4" inches right now, and if i were to buy a tank mate it would be a baby red parrot. im assuming its going to be around 1-2" inches (bcuz its all i can afford.. my local fish store selling 2 baby red parrots for only $15)

[poseidon]

well, i m sure your parrots fish will suffer at that size, may even end up as meals to your Flowerhorn.:huh:

[PhanX]

well i just bought a red parrot fish today and it is a decent size. not as big as my flowerhorn but its not small enough to the point where my flowerhorn can swallow it whole either. my flowerhorn seems to be really agressive towards it tho. either aggressive or he is having fun with a tank mate because it wont stop bothering the red parrot haha. it will keep on trying to chase the red parrot down and tries to bite at one of the fins. i've been watching it as its been almost 3 hours since i put in the red parrot and no fins seem to be damaged yet.

hopefully they will adapt and get along with each other :)

[david lee]

Years ago, I had a pair of parrot. Unfortunately the male died. Anyway he cant fertilise any of the eggs the female laid.

I gave it to my uncle who has a LH bought from Thailand. They bred n hav tons of babies.

So things like that do happen!

[etlikefish]

Years ago, I had a pair of parrot. Unfortunately the male died. Anyway he cant fertilise any of the eggs the female laid.

I gave it to my uncle who has a LH bought from Thailand. They bred n hav tons of babies.

So things like that do happen!

wow bro thanks for yr kind imput....should have asked yr uncle to take some pictures to post for us to see the outcome....:wink:

[Mystique]

Lets sum it up ..

Flowerhorns Tankmates :

- sucker must be bigger size than the flowerhorn and to include another mate to distract the aggresive flowerhorn. Gradually they'll be like a community and these need skills to implement,

- blood parrot or kkparrot must be bigger or at least adult size of blood parrot or kkparrot ie, min of 3 inches. These are used as short spells to train the flowerhorn and advisable not to leave bp or kkp too long. This in turn needs skill to observe and at times the flowerhorn might accept the bp or kkp as tankmates,

Flowerhorn's prey :

- No discus,
- No guppy,
- No betta,
- No Goldfish,
- No small sized bp/kkp/pleco,


Anything else to include in or be corrected, please feel free to add in.

Lets work it on for everyone's benefit..:wink:

[clydehan19]

i do have a 100 gallon tank which houses a 1 9" luohan ,5 bloodparrots and an 19" silver arowana .. i release them all in the same time so territorial problems wont bother them..

[SniperY]

Lets sum it up ..

Flowerhorns Tankmates :

- sucker must be bigger size than the flowerhorn and to include another mate to distract the aggresive flowerhorn. Gradually they'll be like a community and these need skills to implement,

- blood parrot or kkparrot must be bigger or at least adult size of blood parrot or kkparrot ie, min of 3 inches. These are used as short spells to train the flowerhorn and advisable not to leave bp or kkp too long. This in turn needs skill to observe and at times the flowerhorn might accept the bp or kkp as tankmates,

Flowerhorn's prey :

- No discus,
- No guppy,
- No betta,
- No Goldfish,
- No small sized bp/kkp/pleco,


Anything else to include in or be corrected, please feel free to add in.

Lets work it on for everyone's benefit..:wink:BP/KKP have to mix well with LH especially size. Recently, bought 2 small bp while during the visit at the cave, put it with my 2 small LH, 2 days only, suprising one of the bp was killed by this small lh (which the size is much smaller than the bp). :crying:

[PhanX]

the way i look at it, if the fish is the same size or even a little bit bigger than the flowerhorn than it wouldnt matter would it? well, that is unless the flowerhorn is very aggressive.

[red_matrixX]

i think no one is compatible with flowerhorns cuz they are so aggressive. some even kill those plecos and those parrots. so yea