In my desire to learn more about flower horns, I recently came across these strains: Kamfa and Jin Hua/Zen Zhou. Can anybody tell me more about these, i.e., characteristics and descriptions. Also, can they be cross bred with my pearl type red dragon and blue dragon?

The Kamfa / Jin Hua takes a longer time to mature. Over in the Far East, we usually breed them when they are around 1 - 2 years old. Again, it greatly depends on how fast the fish matures.

BTW, the Red Dragon / POTO / BD are all classified under ZZ. Hope this helps.

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Can't be explained better than NICO. good job

Thanks for the cool illustrations bro.

wow! thats hekka helpful!

Nico,

Awesome explaination!

Here's another way!

Jin Hua's have much smaller lips than the Zhen Zhu type. You will notice that ZZ's always have thicker lips. Compare and you'll see.

Sometimes it's hard to explain, but when you've seen enough fh's, it's easy to tell. ..That is unless the fh is really mixed. "o"/ ))))`

Dennis

Jason,



I bought a Fh 2 months ago, and the store owner told me it was fh x parrot. People here tell me this is a kamfa strain? If so i was wondering since this strain takes longer to mature, does that also inclusde longer time for it to change colors? Because my FH is is at like 3 1/2 inches, and still the same color as he was at 1 1/2. Although i have noticed that he has been acquiring gold dust looking things on his head and on his body.


Here's a picture

The fun of keeping Kamfa is that the development of the fish will takes its course over time. Once it matures, you will be seeing a lot of development of its coloration, and its hump as well. Be very aware that they are much more sensitive as compared to the Pearl series / ZZ. So, when you do your periodic water change, do about 10% of the volume of your tank about once every fortnight. Just make sure that you have a good filtration system. Attach is the Kamfa that I have, which is about 6 inches. The first picture was taken 2 months ago.

Voila ! Below, just taken a couple minutes ago.

I think there's a minor correction. The fish named Marine supposed to be Storm. That is the breeder's pride.

RBK usually has the trademark of vertical scattered markings on its body...

And also many times, it could be anywhere on the body too.....

Jason - For Kamfa FH, how big or how old for it to be considered mature?

hmm i'm thinking of a project of putting my jinhuas in as big a tank as i can to develop them into 14 inchers. what size do you think i should put them in? 75 each?

somethings i never knew about. thanks guys!

well done!!!

Super red synspilum type such as Storm, Red Shock, etc. are not flowerhorn! They are crossbreeds from Thailand of which totally unrelated to flowerhorn from Malaysia. Super red texas is another crossbreed that is not flowerhorn and also the famous Jing Kang that also known as Tri Tong in Thailand. These fish is not flowerhorn but a crossbreed first successfully bred in Thailand few years ago.

so what's the diff. between kamfa and jin hua? or is there

For Kamfa / Jin Hua, they are only considered mature when they reaches at least 1.5 years old.

They are actually the same strain - Kamfa (in Cantonese), and Jin hua (in Mandarin). In English, its called Golden Flower.

right on, thanks for clearing that up!!@! i'm new to the hobby, so i still need to learn the lingo

Very informative! Thanks

nice info!

amazing info, its help a lot for me, now i can classify my Fh.


asmdriskell

nice fish

is jin kang the orange colored fish?

Very interesting and informative

Well explained. Thanks!

BTW, hi bob2vaifh. How are the SRS fries doing?

nice information ...thnx alot ..

Hai Nico I think your pink panther looks more like a Red Shock (from Thailand)to me. Rgds.

the alternative way to differentiate between kamfa/zz , pictures are not displayed...

this is kamfa(king). with out mark on head

This is Modern kamfa or King kamfa with black dot on the head... ))))`

This is Modern kamfa or King kamfa with black dot on the head... ))))`

the dude in E-aquarium.biz said SRS were a byproduct of the breeding process to make blood parrots. All i know is they have mostly Vieja Synspilla (hence the name) in them with KKP and Midas. I dont know. Just thinking out loud.

Great info

Is their such thing Red Phoenix FH? thanks

That was informative thanks.

since u guys know so much...i need help id my male ...here it is again

its look like a trimac...........or mabye it is

wat the hack is a trimac?

very infomative

Yup. Actually, lots of great information learning the history of flowerhorn just digging through the older post.

I really enjoy reading the old school post, its been awhile seen I read this good review for me aswell >>forever newbie and always learning

yea i agree i started keeping fh at the start of 2009 lol so i am really new but i wonder that the name jing kang really make ppl confuse as there r 2 1 is the jing kang parrot and 1 is the jingkang flowerhorn