General Care: Feeding guide, grooming and growth

• Firstly I wanna say The simplest way to look at this is the more you feed the more they poop the more u need to clean
• Try not overfeed, giving a set guide is a hard one because Flowerhorns are so different in shape size type and personality but as a guide.

• I feed my fry below 6months old 4x a day and try use a high protein crushed pellet as soon as they accept it after weaning off baby brine shrimp this gets them growing big and solid but I also water change these lil ones 2-3x a week 20-30% .... when I use to breed flat out I was doing the fry tanks 10% daily

• In order to support their rapid growth and vibrant colors, you should feed your flowerhorns two to three times per day. However, you should skip one day a week. This "fast day" helps clear the fish's digestive tracts.
• Regardless of the specific food you feed, only feed what your flowerhorns can eat in 60-90 seconds.
• I do this until they are about 20cm and feed a mix of pellets,
• Protein above 40% (helps grow) 3 feeds
• Spirulina (helps digestion and pearl) 2 feeds
• Astaxanthin (helps red and yellow shine)3 feeds
• And a staple pellet below 40% daily
• You can mix the pellets with staple and u will find they accept more pellets regardless of taste

1. 3 protein
2. 2 spirulina
3. 3 astaxanthin
4. 3 staple every feed 6days a week then fast

• I recommend to reduce protein fed or it may cause health issues, don’t stop it but reduce it to a treat
• Essentially think of protein in this high 40% or more as McDonald’s, they love it but it’s not exactly healthy when there older, you may also need to reduce feeding size or even just do 1x a day but this depends on the Flowerhorns personality
• I personally feed hikari as it is always available locally and is quite good quality I use the following

1. Hikari gold/bio gold
2. Hikari excel
3. Hikari red blood parrot
4. Hikari massivore or high growth

• I have used ocean free and grand sumo and many more in past and these are quite good but cost more and not always available.

• When worming do not feed for best results, all your doing is providing the worms energy to keep killing your fish

DO NOT:

• I don’t feed live foods or blood worms as they increase ur chance in parasites