The 1st Generation Faded Kamalau

Hi all...

Long time no post. Just to share, we have loads of fries from our prolific breeeder M17 (see previous post) and they are all ready for sale!

Check out the collection here at our gallery.

We have limited pieces of the faded kamalau available so do enquire about them with sharon(at)flowerfish.com.

BTW, we are actively looking for importers in LA, Dallas, and major cities in the USA. Do email sharon(at)flowerfish.com for more info about our partnership program. Thanks!

Out,

The Flowerfish Team.

Breeding The Faded Kamalau Dragons!

Hi all!

Its been ages since we updated our blog. My apologies for being caught up with oodles of work elsewhere. Anyway, these update should be the most interesting post for all.

Remember our super breeder M17? Well, you all know that it is the top of the range Kamalau Dragon rite? it so happens to be our very prolific breeder too! Over the whole of April, between the 2 pairs in the gallery, they practically PUMPED out 10,000 to 15,000 of fries! That is indeed a shocker.. obviously a piece of very good news to all faded flowerhorn lovers!

Remember, faded flowerhorn is one thing...think (the Thai Golden FH of the yester-years) but faded short-body, wrapped tail, pearly bubble-head, super-red, Kamalau-Dragon is definitely another!

Now, see the female with M17? That so happens to be our prized 100% faded kamalau female and all other faded fishes in the past 6 months were produced by her. The only thing is that the father is another fish. This time, it is different! Its with M17!!

Our first batch should hit your shores in a month or two, so better clear an additional space in your fish room to house them! HAAA!

Breeding picture gallery here.

Cheers to all and keep on flowerhorning!

Al

Total Fish march Shipment, LA, USA.

Hi everybody !

Its the time to check out fishes again! One very nice shipment is coming to Total Fish and Pets, LA sometime next week and Kim has picked his fishes. Come and see them here! I wonder who is going to walk away with the beauty red faded kamfa...mmmm.

Had an email from a hobbyist and I thought of answering it here...

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Hello Al,

I've just purchased a 3-4 inches AAA flower from Total Fish & Pet last Tuesday 3/13. The FH has beautiful detailed markings with beautiful coloration before I took it home. Now I have the fish at home in my 60 gallon tank. The water temp is 30 degree Celsius and the fish seems healthy and eating well. I've been feeding pellets and shrimp. However, the fish has become very dark in color..to the point that I can not see the detailed turquoise, red, and black marking as I saw it at Total Pet & Fish. The face appeared to be lighter with distinguish marking and coloration before I took it home. The face of the FH was yellow; now it's very dark. By the way, I have very good lighting. I'm using salt water aquarium's pink lighting which are very bright and should bring out the colors of the fish. I don't understand why the FH changed it's color :( Please advise what I did wrong or need to do to bring the nice coloration of the FH I know it has back??

B.Rgds,
Sy
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Hi Sy...

Sometimes, FH need some time to settle down. If they are not really comfortable with their surrounding, they will be dark in color. Sometimes, they will adapt to their environment by matching the background colors because FHs also have chamaeleon-like behavior. It can also possibly be that your FH is afraid of something you dont know of.

We have this problem every time in our store with many fishes. What we do is that we move the fish to another tank and the next thing we know, the color comes back! I am sure this is not practical to do at home but you have to figure out what is making the fish uncomfortable.

Another potential problem is that the water parameters is not to your fish's liking. You can read the article on how to optimize the tank for your flowerhorn.

One other possible problem is that your FH is sick. During transportation, the FH is under stress and that can lower it's immune system. This will make the fish prone to sickness. Do check if there is white faeces or white spots disease. These are the most common problems.

One last thing that I can think of is that your FH is morphing! Potentially, it is turning into a faded fish. Most faded flowerhorns start morphing by turning very dark in color. Then, parts by parts, the dark colors will fade and eventually it will completely fade the dark color away, making the fish bright yellow or orange color. Remember, the faded fish is a craze and it is much more expensive. Maybe you have got a gem!

Al.

March updates. Happenings at Flowerfish.com!

Hi everyone!

We have just posted pics of lots of fishes for the month of March. Do check them out. In the very near future we will be starting to send batches of faded fishes to the US and in fact, there are already some pieces trickling into the US.

Do check out our up and coming shipment to San Francisco.

Also, we are working out a big order for Total fish & Pets, LA again sometime next week. Will be posting up the pics for Total Fish once Kim has picked his choices. Cheers!

For the record, our prolific breeder Kamalau Dragon has proven its breeding prowes again this month. This time its with one of our most beautiful faded kamalau female which is almost half-body red with pearls all over. What a way to start the the month of March! Its one of the biggest spawn on record with estimated close to 3000 fries. I think the fertilization is almost 99% this time.

And guess what? Barely a week after the fries started swimming, the female spawned again today, also with M17! We are keeping our fingers crossed for this spawn to hatch at least 90%.

Will keep you all updated... Ciao!

Till then,

Al

Digg the Flower Horn fish at Digg.com!

Hi friends!

We tried something interesting today just for kicks.. heard of Digg.com? Well, I thought of seeing how and what made this website so super succesful, so, there I was, finding myself creating an account there. In a matter of minutes, I was posting my very fisrst Digg story and its about the Flower Horn fish!

I guess there is a huge amount of public who still do not know the beauty of flower horns, so I though of giving the fish their overdue exposure. Do check out what the general public's idea/toughts on the flower horn fishes... do they generally love it or despise it? This should be interesting..... so, go Digg it here!

Out,

Al

read more digg story

New Baby Faded Fishes

Hi all once again!

Its been a while since I made a post. We have been closed for the Chinese Lunar year celebrations. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Anyway, we are now back and raring to go. Check out our latest photo album of faded fishes. Production for this type of faded fishes is getting more by the weeks, but still, the very good ones are limited. We have sent some shipments to the USA, but those are mostly "starter/entry level" faded fishes. The "show quality" ones are still kept for breeding. Sorry!

Hopefully in a few months, we will have kept enough breeding stocks and will start to sell the rest. Keeping our fingers crossed now.

Till then, keep on flowerhorning!

Al

New photo album & 2 questions.....

Hi all..

Check out one new photo album we have just posted!

Two more questions of the day...

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sir/maam
is it necessary for a flowerhorn to have red eyes or can it be white too
thanks
david

ANSWER: It is definitely not necessary to have red or white eyes. As we all know, flower horns are hybrid fishes and depending on the genes of the fishes, it will inherit features of the stronger genes. The trimacs have red eyes and the fore-fathers of most flower horns are trimacs. So if there is strong trimac genes in your FH, it will have red eyes. At the same time, genes from the man-face cichlids or some other large south american cichilds have white eyes and it will show in your present flower horn's eyes.


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Dear peoples of Flower Fish.
My name is Evan Le and in my house, I have 2 flower fish placed in a tank.
On one occasion, one of the flower fish managed to go through the seperater and when I removed it, they started to swin very close together and in sometimes, they bite each other on the mouth and hold it as if they were kissing.

CAn you tell me anything about that please?

Thank you.

ANSWER: Your fishes are locking-lips and they are definitely not in love! They are fighting and you must separate them immediately. If you see wounds on the mouth because of the fight, you should treat them with acriflavin or salt, just to prevent the wounds from getting infected. Remember, never put two flower horns together unless you want dead or injured fishes as pets. ;)

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