picked up some baby flowerhorns...

went to a fish store today....the staff isnt trained all to well.........i figured i would look around for FH, but VERY rarely do you find them around by me....i ended up finding 5 FH in a tank with a convict.....i asked the guy how much per fish and he says they are dempsey/mckeniali (spelling?)........he says he will sell them for 5.98 a piece and a saw one or two that seem like they might have some potential, but told him i would come back later.....i go to two other fish stores, dont find anything, then come back to the first place......i ask the price again and he tells me 1.98 a piece (i guess he forgot the prices) so i said i would take all five....man, htis guy was fish-stupid.....the convict i mentioned that was in the tank was gettin harassed by my little flowerhorns (the FH's are 1" with tial, the convict is a full gorwn male)....he says the convict is letting them do that b/c hes the father....wow, not only did i pickup sopme flowerhorns around here, i did so under $1.98 a piece b/c he didnt know that they were really flowerhorns....he also tried to sell silver arrowanna to a guy with a 55 gallon.....until another customer stepped up and told the guy wanting to do the buying the real deal on those fish....the one customer that stepped up also purchased a snakehead at the fish store....the tank once again was unmarked and the employee didnt know what it was, so the guy mentioned pike and got a nice deal on the snakehead....here are 4 pics i jsut took, less then an hour after being in the new tank......kind of dark, but two have pretty nice flowerlines and they all are getting alot of red.....PICS ARE WITH FLASH...




im growout these little hell-raisers and see their full potential....i wish the pics did justice for the colors....

 

hmm, pics of the fish turned out dark...ill get some new pics in about a week....

 

I've never seen FH before but even without colour they look nice.

 

you havnt? wow, heres my photobucket site with assorted flwoerhorn i have.....http://photobucket.com/albums/v239/grnl ... ?start=all

 

Thanks I'll take a look now :y_the_best:

 

They are beautiful fish! Some really nice markings!

 

They are cichlids arent they?

 

yup, hybrids of different SA cichlids.

 

nice. when you say SA where do you mean?

 

SA=south american
CA= central american

 

Sorry I knew what you meant but seeing as im not very familiar with Cichlids I thought FH's may have been from South AFRICA not America. Thanks

 

yea, no problem.

 

Nice pick up. I need to get some dumber LFS people here. I hate how flash kills colors it happens with me to