Meet Mo

[Mattzilla]

Meet Mo, my new flowerhorn.....now before you start ear bashing me about flowerhorns being monsters.....i don't want to hear it.

i like them and i think they are beautiful fish

enjoy the pics of you like them :)

[Ben]

wow matty!

that an awesome looking flowerhorn!

well done mate! i like em too!
cheers
ben

[Proteus]

Nice looking fish.

Looks like the big fish bug is taking hold

[Mattzilla]

yeah i have always wanted to scratch that "big fish" itch

and Mo has certainly done that

[goldenpigeon]

i love him :D

if you dont mind me asking where did you get him from and how much was this big fella?

[Mattzilla]

i got it from trans aquarium at canley vale and he cost me $200

i think that is a reasonable price for such a nice quality flowerhorn his size

[sammigold]

I love Flowerhorns too... they are such cool looking fish! 8-) 8-)

[weird]

Hi Mo !

I was at an aquarium on Sunday where the guy was sticking his hand in to be bitten by the flowerhorn /s.

[Mattzilla]

yeah they can be mean buggers....mo isn't too bad yet...but when he is hungry i am not silly enough to stick my hand in the tank.....

[Davo]

Matt,

Nice fish.

Remember the female turq you sold me. Well she just spawned but guess what. I also have a tank full of lesbians.

Un******believable.

I need a male or a guarenteed pair.

Dave

[Del]

Wow he looks like a big boy - how big is he Matt?

[Mattzilla]

lol @ dave

her old lesbian partner spawn a couple of days ago for the first time in ages...they must be still connected in some way and decided to spawn at the same time

del, he is about 8" long from nose to tail...he is a couple of inches thick....pretty solid fella

[Merrilyn]

Matt, he's gorgeous, and the colours are stunning.

[DR.V]

Nice and Big Matt, what are you feeding him ?

[Mattzilla]

actually all he will eat is blood worms....which is a bit of a worry

yesterday i defrosted some blood worms and added some flower horn specific pellet food to it and refroze it. he has been eating it but he is not happy cause he knows there are pellets in there. he spits a lot of them out but at least he is eating some. i think ober time he will get used to it and i will gradually increase the amount of pellets i add to the blood worms.

anyone got any other tips on getting him to eat anything other than blood worms???

oh an of course he eats other little fish....i have fed him guppies and i think he ate 2 (rather large) bristle nose that where in the tank when i put him in and i have not seen for a long time.

i did have a large pleco in the tank with him but he beat it up pretty bad so now he is flying solo in his own tank

[DR.V]

hmm what about the starving method Matt ?

[Mattzilla]

well i have been away for 3 days the last 2 weekends in a row and when i have got home i have fed him pellets, flakes, brine shrimp, beefheart...EVERYTHING!!!!... and even when he has been starving for 3 days he still does not touch it.

he is stubborn...you should see him when he eats the blood worms with pellets in it...you can see the look on his face is like "what the hell are you trying to feed me????"

it's really quite funny

[nicholas76]

hey mate


can you post up a few more pic, that is a really nice flower horn.

does he like live food? eg feeder fish, mine used to go nuts over it

( yep i do realise they are not a great food source etc etc )

[Mattzilla]

yeah he has demolished quite a few guppies.....

i'll take some photos right now for you

cheers
matt

[Mattzilla]

more pics as requested

first with flash

[Mattzilla]

and one without flash

not the best pic but shows more of the natural colours that get washed out with the flash

[nicholas76]

happy addition to any house hold


does he shift sand about??,,, my red devils would move everything and anything

ps thanks for the pic its the best one yet!

[Mattzilla]

yeah he throws everythign around

you can kind of see some terra cotta pots and stuff in the background...well he litterally picks them up and throws them around. they all had plants tied to them that had semi grafted onto the pots....well he has ripped most of them off

actually i am looking for some large (4-5" in diameter) terra cotta pipes for him...anyone know wher i can get some???

cheers
matt

[nicholas76]

I got mine from bunnings


infact thats what mine spawned in.


i need to post pics ! now were are they

[Mattzilla]

yeah i want pics...and any tips you have for me

cheers
matt

[kalebjarrod]

just get a terracota pot with a hole ion the bottom

grab a ball pain hammer and ligter tap the hole

small chips will fall away and you will have yourself a holely pot LOL

love the fish, how may tanks you got now? :wink:

[Mattzilla]

only got 3 tanks...soon to be only 2.

getting rid of my 2 2ft cubes and replacing with the big 500ltr + tank

one tank for mo and the new big one for a discus community tank