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Being a tropical freshwater fish, the flower the horn fish looks very beautiful and attractive by entire of its multicolor entity. You’ve got to be fascinated by such a beautiful tropical fish at first sight. Spelling a magical effect of its charming beauty, the flower horn fishes are loved so much in the world that people prefer to keep them in their living room for progress and prosperity. 

Also known as aquarium fish or cichlids, the flower horn fish is believed to bring a good fortune to those who bestow their living room with the beauty of aquarium having flower horn fishes. Such belief has no doubt encouraged a large number of people to keep the horn fishes inside their house in aquarium. 
   
The flower horn fishes are very aggressive by their nature. But, despite being aggressive by their nature, the flower horn fishes are vulnerable even to a minor threat posed by a stranger. In other words, we can describe the flower horn fish as a Scaramouch by her disposition. Believed to be a symbol of femininity and omen, the flower horn fish is kept at home for aggrandizement, prosperity and conviviality.

How To Breed The Flower Horn Fish

If you want to produce the flower horn fishes at large scale, you will have to know how to breed the flower horn fishes. Keeping in view increasing craze among the people in the world for unique flower horn fishes, we are penning down over here the tips on how to breed the flower horn fishes at large scale.

Arrange a spacious aquarium which can prove to be a better habitat for both male and female flower horn fishes. The aquarium used for breeding of flower horn fishes should cause a natural oceanic scene of tropical water as well with many marine pebbles and stones of different colors kept therein. Oceanic scene stimulates both male and female flower horn fishes to mate, thus contributing in a successful breeding of flower horn fishes.

The aquarium made of a glass makes the visibility clear between you and the flower horn fishes which has got to become an impediment for better breeding of the flower horn fishes. So cover up those portions of aquarium from where you are likely to watch a peaked mating of the male and female flower horn fishes. The flower horn fishes can get disturbed sighting you near them. So in order to provide both male and female flower horn fishes a complete privacy for mating, do not make yours presence felt by them. Cover the specific parts of breeding aquarium either with the papers or cloths so as to hide yourself during peaked sex between the male and female flower horn fishes.

Keep it always uppermost in your mind that a male flower horn fish, being too strong and aggressive than a female one, is needed to be kept away from the latter one. Both the flower horn fishes should be allowed to come physically close to each other for mating only after ensuring a favorable situation for their courtship.
It has been noticed that male and female flower horn fishes, living in the same aquarium(without any separation) get too hostile. As both of them cant be in the mood for intercourse, theirs physical clash is natural to occur resulting into severe injuries to the female flower horn fish. And in order to save a female flower horn fish from a sudden aggression of the male flower horn fish, both the flower horn fishes are needed to be kept apart from each other in a special aquarium.

Made specially for breeding, a glass aquarium is equipped with a transparent separating wall which seemingly creates two chambers in the same aquarium. Though a transparent separating-wall(made of transparent  glass) keeps both male and female flower horn fishes away from each other, it can allow them to mate as well. By separating both male and female flower horn fishes in the same aquarium, you will allow a faster and effective breeding, which in normal aquarium wouldn’t be possible for you to accomplish.

After separating both the flower horn fishes from each other through a transparent film or a wall of glass, make sure that water flows from the male flower horn fish towards the female flower horn fish. Such dispensation will stimulate a sexual instincts in the female flower horn fish and get her ready to invite the male flower horn fishes for successful courtship or sex.

With a sexy smell of male flower horn fish affecting the female flower horn fish, the female one gets infatuated. Craving for faster intercourse with male flower horn fish, the female fish becomes restless. She develops a black color strip allover her body, while her genital papilla gets much swollen inviting the male flower horn fish for mating. Watching female flower horn fish’s new disposition, the male flower horn fish also becomes restless for intercourse. This is a conducive situation for courtship or sex between male and female flower horn fishes. Remove the separating glass to let both the flower horn fishes get united for effective courtship. Make sure that you are spotted by the lustful flower horn fishes. 

You will notice female flower horn fish remaining standstill, while the male flower horn fish accomplishing all the remaining sexual activities. Keep a close watch over the mating of flower horn fishes and just after the completion of theirs intercourse, separate them without letting them experience the presence of yours. This is what you should learn for ‘how to breed the flower horn fish’.

Clean the aquarium regularly as the flower horn fishes do not prefer feces and filthiness. In order to keep the water of breeding aquarium immune to fungal or bacterial attack, use sterilizing substances such as methylene into the water and clean the debris thereof on a regular basis.