Fred pics

thanks to Vixen fred has a extra spiffy background
He now has an apple snail that lives with him, it has made it a week without being eaten so I think it will last!

lookin good

Notice the 125g salt in the background. Fred and the Gray angel love to harass each other when I am not looking!

And for anyone who doesn't know Fred is a flowerhorn over a foot long and by far my favorite fish

Was talking about the lovely Fred - hope you didn't mind but borrowed a pic of him to show off LOL!!!!

He loves to get shown off!!!!

Well the pic went over well, had to explain about his toys LOL Thanks figured you wouldn't mind me showing the "lil baby" off

ya I need to find him some new toys so I can change it up a lil for him!

This guy has what looks to be a lil female and her color was fading so he was worried that something was wrong with her, so I told him about Fred and Martha how they were siblings then Fred faded to a blonde with red highlights and Martha kept the traditional colors. Then of course he asked to see what he looked like LOL so amazingly I managed to copy and paste the pic (so darn proud of me!!) Totally made him feel better about her and her fading

Ya I pretty well freaked when Fred did that, just all the black started fading out like he went through the wash too many times or something!
this is him with the black all gone, he is still fading out it seems, his red was much more....red

ok here is kinda like a backwards run on his fading....

and apparently I just digressed into the life pics of Fred

wow hes neat what kinda fish is he ?

He is a flowerhorn and hes huge

yup I got him as a red dragon flowerhorn at 1" and he ended up being a fader, he is a foot long now!

Fred is cool!!! i like the backwards timeline.

Ya he has been a very interesting fish from day one! Him and Martha were added to an order I placed with someone so I didn't even know I was getting them! I am sure glad I did! My old roomy FishVixen fell in love with Martha so she took him (yes Martha is male) when she moved out.
If you ever want a fish that's more like a dog than a fish and will be your bestest buddy get a flowerhorn!

do you have to have such a bare tank with a flowerhorn. I just noticed yours and vixens tanks have a few toys but nothing else. no sand or anything

With how big his poop is I can only get it out with just the tub of the siphon so a bare tank makes it much easier, when they are smaller you can have substrate but when their turds look well... like big turds substrate just makes it much harder to clean their tank, I have to get in there weekly and run poop patrol to keep his water clean.
Right now he is in a 90g with an aquaclear 110 hang on filter and a cascade 1500 canister and I still feel that he needs more filtration, a foot long fish as fat as Fred is creates a LOT of waste!

Ahh so I see. So not realy my kind of fish haha. he is still realy cool though. But I dont realy get into fish that big. The black ghost knife and the loaches will be the biggest fish I have had except for koi in a pond. But they will be very slow growing so no worries there. Im shure that I will be able to figure it out by the time they get that size.

Well he took 3 years to get to this size.

Is he going to grow any more.

He is a hybrid so I really dont know, but from what I can tell most of them dont get this big!

so I just measured him, did a massive water change so he was being still and I could actually measure him

13" long x 6" tall x 3" wide

That is one big fish!

I am going to be getting a baby flowerhorn in the next few weeks.

Ya he is a big boy!!!!