Is Faded Flower Horns the Latest Craze?

Hi fellow flowerhornies!

The very first time I saw this faded Kamalau posted in FHUSA, I must admit that I had to pick my jaw off the floor after that! I have never seen a flower horn so beautiful in my life so I made it my quest to breed this Picasso of a fish.

I did some asking around later on and eventually found out that the particular fish is owned by one of my Indonesian friends, Pak Pudji. Almost instantly, I called him and we had a long chat. At the end of the conversation, the conclusion is that its one of those few rare faded fishes and finding one of these is like hitting the million dollar jackpot.

From then on, I searched everywhere for any faded fishes, male or female that I could find and indeed, I found quite a few! I Got myself some faded Kamalaus (extremely rare), faded ZZs, faded Kamfas, Faded Texas, etc. So the breeding program for this was underway in no time and within a few months, we had our first few spawns!

In fact, we bred Kamalaus with faded ZZs, Faded Dragons, faded Texas, King Kongs, anything you name it! Now,..... the result? Well, I had to admit that a VERY tiny percentage turned out well, not much faded fish and lots of rubbish!

But, the good news is that.. the ones that turned out good are EXTREMELY good! We now have a few eye-catching faded Kamalaus, faded Kamfas, faded Dragons, faded Kamalau-Dragons to our name.

Anything for sale you might be thinking and the answer is Yes and No. "Yes" is for the fully faded not-much head 3-4 inchers and "No" is for the super-duper gorgeous, sight-for-sore-eyes, made-for-poster fishes. These are of course kept so that we can produce F2 offsprings :).

If you want to see some of the faded fishes... bounce over here and drool!

Till then,
Al