Is there any specific way to enhance their growth and color quicker?
If you have any good recommendations and advice please let me know. I would like other opinions rather than hearing it from the store. Thanks for your time Chuck. < The hump on the forehead is a fat storage device for male Central American cichlids. Since the Flowerhorn is a cross between numerous species of cichlid, the mechanism for enhancing the hump should be the same. To bring out the most in both color and the hump of the male fish you need to feed you fish often with quality foods. As a base I would use the best pelleted food I could find. In the U.S.A. I would recommend Spectrum or another high quality cichlid food. I would supplement this wish my own home made fish food. The recipe can be found in a book by Ad Konings titled "Enjoying Cichlids" by Cichlid Press. It a mixture of peas and shrimp that could be modified to have more shrimp that peas to increase the protein content. I would feed it three times a day but make sure all of it is eaten in a few minutes each time. Keep
