Red Texas x Flowerhorn battle scars

[Mattzilla]

Hi i came home tonight to find that one of my red texas x flowerhorn had jumped the divider into the territory of one of the others. I used to think that the one that jumped was the toughest of the 3 i have, but when i got home it was hiding all beaten up by the one who's turf was intruded. the one that jumped and got beaten up used to be the most aggressive of them all...

I took a couple of pics of the beaten up maniac and the victor who is acting tough as... all flexed and proud to be the king. quite funny to see actually.

lucky i found it when i got home...could have been killed! it's top lip is very beaten up (thank god it wasn't ripped off) and fins are very tattered.

I've added some salt to help it heal up.

cheers
matt

[Mattzilla]

oops, put the winner in the middle... you get the idea though....

[waitaki]

poor thing, the middle one looks very smug

[nicholas76]

your getting some awsum growth

despite the fighting!! :lol:

[Mattzilla]

got up yesterday to find that the fish pictured in the 1st and 3rd pics had committed hurry curry and jumped out of the tank during the night....
it's a shame because it had made a full recovery and was looking awesome.

i took some pics of the stronge red based texas to share it's progress

cheers
matt

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[Mattzilla]

oh and the other fish on the right in the top pic is also a red texas x with interesting colours coming through...

[nicholas76]

taking shape looking awsum mate

say when do you start pumping the red colouring? do you bother ?