Wassup with Flowerfish?

Hi everyone!

Its been a hectic week over here at Flowerfish.com. Lots of stuffs happening, just finished some articles for everyone. Hope all the flower horn newbies and "seasoned pros" will like those flower horn articles. Please feel free to use the articles in your website or forum postings BUT do remember to leave the copyrights, credits and reprint statements in the signature section intact, ok?! ;)

Anyway, we shipped 2 large shipments to the USA(New York) and China last week and we are almost out of stock. But the good news is that our latest batch from our prolific breeder is about 1-2 weeks away from marketable size. I am really excited over this batch!

At the same time, we had our very own heartaches last week due to the demise of two of our male breeders. One of them was my personal fav and the other was our latest potential blockbuster. Well, when the time has come for them to go, there is nothing we can do about it, rite? We came into the store one fine morning and found one dead. The next day, it was another's turn. They just turned belly-up and left us no clue whatsoever. mmmmmm? Has this happened to anyone before?

Luckily we have lotsa breeders to spare and that is why we will always keep at least 10-20 pcs of the very best from every spawn. Phew!

So, guys n gals, do read the articles, hang around our blog, POST sumthing and tell more of your friends about us, k?

Till then, happy flowerhorning!

Al

Finishing some articles for newbies..

Hi everyone...

Lets see what Flowerfish has been up to in the last few days...

We have been busy getting some articles up and have just sent them for reedits... u know, the command of my English is not very ah-so ..British :) Hopefully they will be ready soon.

There are some fishes coming to NY very soon, so...New Yorkers, take note. Will also post updates on this very soon.

Oh ya... our "prolific Kamalau Dragon breeder No. M17" just fathered a HUGE spawn with a fully faded female Kamalau. mmmmm..... delicious!

Our blog has been up sometime now and we have come to a conclusion that our readers are graduates from the "shy school". We know many people read our blogs everyday.. thank god for Google Analytics! But not many people participate.

How about if we were to give out our juiciest, fattest and "pearliest" Kamalau Dragon for our very first virgin post? Will that help? he he... You know that I am not serious.

Anyway, thanks for dropping by and have fun here!

Al

New Pictures..

Hi peeps !

Today, I added more pictures into Flowerfish's web album. They are 2 of my male faded fish breeders. Both are about 8 months old and one of them is a faded Kamalau and another is a faded Kamalau-Dragon. I dare say you will be impressed with their colors and huge head(at least for one of them).

At the same time I am working on some articles and do bookmark this blog to read when they are ready. (hopefully by next week) I hope these articles will help all the hobbyists to at least upgrade their level of flower horn fish-keeping and promoting more friends to take to the hobby.

Anyway, it seems that many of you reading this blog are still very shy to participate. Its ok because I dont usually comment much in other people's blogs too. After all, I am doing this for all to keep abreast with Flowerfish's latest but most of all, its for our team to be more "on its toes". Its the world watching and reading now....Yikes!

Bye for now,
Al

Welcome fellow FHUSA forumers!

Today I posted something on FHUSA and the response was great! I have been out of the forums for ages due to my other businesses and I thought of taking a peek at whats going on there. Since I have started a blog, I might as well tell someone about it too!

This is something exciting and I hope that I can contribute as much as I can to the industry as a whole. But one thing I must stress is that I simply do not have the time to answer queries individually about prices, diseases or specific questions. I was bombarded with PMs after the postings and this is GOOD! The only problem is that I managed to answer most of the PMs which took a good part of the morning to do so. Sorry peeps!

So, to compensate for that, I am going to write a few articles on as much that I know and post it on Flowerfish.com. I hope with those articles, hobbyists can learn more and upgrade their knowledge about the flowerhorn fish. This articles should be up in a week or so and do check my blog for the updates.

Thats about it for now, thanks for reading this and do jump in and participate in my blog!

Till then,
Al

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

Finally Flowerfish.com have a blog!

I guess its about time.

Been too buzy going around and not getting to this, so once and for all, I found a lazy Sunday evening, set the blogging account up and here it is... Flowerfish's first ever post. Found nothing much to add yet but hopefully it will be populated with info soon.

I have also set up this Google's picture album thingy called Picasa and loaded photos there so I guess the fans of flower horn fishes will get to see all the latest that Flowerfish is producing.

Thats about it for now... I am going to take it easy on this since its my debut post.

Ciao!

Al