This is my one year old rainbow king flowerhorn. He feeds on krill and pellets and occasional sawi leaf. Lot of synspilum blood in him.

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nice fish u have there...1 year old ? how big is the fish ? seems like the fish look very small only...

Hi dude,

He's about 7 inches long now....that pic was taken two months ago, but he 's not a fast grower....btw you know of any LFS selling RBK? Got this guy from Taman SEA fish shop n not much variety he's got the most patterns among four...

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I think my uncle used to have one of these fish with him, the little fellow looks like yours. He's a slow grower and not a big fish, but he did had a big hump on the head. But unluckily, one day when i visited my uncle, the fish was gone...
Sad...
Heard was cause by the "hole in the head" disease

Gasp*

That's what I fear the most...head in the hole disease so common in big cichlids, it happens to flowerhorns and oscars and discus like nobody's business....

reminds me I have to go clean my tank

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thats quite a good looking FH there funkychips. he's got more of natural species DNA? doesnt look like those with 4D numbers

oh anyway, i caught a lot of baby FH at a local pay pond hehehe. but i didnt take em home as they were still small

He's about 7 inches long now....that pic was taken two months ago, but he 's not a fast grower....btw you know of any LFS selling RBK? Got this guy from Taman SEA fish shop n not much variety he's got the most patterns among four...[/quote]

Ic , i already 7 inch huh , do u have any recent photo of ur RBK , if got update us k ... I dont think got any LFS selling RBK anymore , my place here i only saw zz type , only a few pcs only.. if i saw any of this fish i will let u know k...

sure will dude, I'm gonna take a pic of it sometime later today or tomorrow...the fella is still pretty much the same....btw I wonder if he is ever going to hump at all, given not many pure species have humps other than synspilum, or maybe it is a she?!

IMO this fish has more of v.maculicauda (the black belt vieja) because it doesn't show much yellow but has a deep red throat and more patterns at the base of his stomach like v.guttulatum....but i think it will have some kamfa in his genes too....hope he still has a long way to go...touch wood!!

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thanx for the update dude . Maybe this species takes much more time and TLC to show it's potential , from what i know , the hump of this fish very slow grow wan , but when it grow im sure it will be king ..hehe cheerssss

Guys, my fishes just got into a fight last night and I was unaware of it until this morning when I found them both beaten up. Bcos I partition them with a plastic board using the divider with suction cups and somehow the cups got loose and slide out of position so the batik kamfa went over to the other side and beat up his neighbour which is my RBK...luckily only scratches and slight torn fins...but I must seriously consider getting a new tank for one of them already....financial restraint at the moment so the partition thing has to be improved for the time being...will get the silicon glue and stick a partition holder onto the tank wall so that it doesnt move when i put the board in...

for the time being the fishes are in frightened conditiion, and they shy away when I tried to snap their pics....guess wil hv to wait....

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