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Lancelot
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 Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:47 am Post subject: Humpy Head |
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Hey guys,
Came across this new food... "HUMPY HEAD" at Shivajinagar (Bangalore). The LFS said this food is designed to increase hump on cichlids... how true is this statement? |
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ujwaldignified
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| Thats true.... They are of high percentage of proteins ( over 60%) to boost the fat secretion on the head of the cichlid - Flowerhorns. They does a great enhancing job of specimens with a definition of good hump in their gene. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| Yes, with its high protien contents the hump grows big. Do you know of any LFS in Delhi selling XO Ocean free products like XO Red and Humpy Head/ |
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indianhotriff
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:15 am Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| i've got some. i am in Delhi. |
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nash81
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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Hey venkey
I have humy head & Red from Ocean free and KWZone Malaysia.
Can get it home delivered or you can visit us at the store in laxmi nagar.
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Nirav Shah
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d_pratik22
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| yes humpy head is pretty good..i have used it myself..however do be careful while using for the first time..read the posts by headbanger_jib..he lost his FH to the ocean free products..stop feeding it to them if you see them get stress bars.. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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You do not need Humpy head to increase the hump of your Cichlids/FH...
If they have it, any diet with good protein content would increase their hump..
Hikari Foods have a Typical Protein of 47%, Grand Sumo - 48%, ChingMix - 47%...
With Humpy Head, Please be careful.....
Moreover the Ocean free foods are more soluble in water as compared to their Conunterparts of Hikari, Sumo and Ching....Left over food causes worms in the tank.. which I have seen repeatedly in my LFS..
To test soak any Ocean free pellets and Hikari pellets in water for 15 mins.. see which one makes the water more dirty.. this is one of good crude test for a floating pellets...
Also a FH constantly feeding on Ocean Free and a FH feeding on Hikari or other costly FH pellets (ChingMix, GrandSumo).. you would see a noticeable difference in their poo color... Ocean Free fed FH would have its Poo color red or light brown.. whereas for others it would be black...
The red color in the poo only signifies that there are artificial colorant used in the food, excess of which the fish is rejecting...
These colors over a period of time gets deposited underneath the cells and tissues of the fish and thus giving him the color.. this is an artificial method and is no way related to pigment enhancement, which is done by natural spirulina or Astaxanthin...The artificial colorant works much faster and hence the owners become happy.. but other than diseases, they are also temporary..
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ADR42
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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humpy head has given me good results so far
really shocked read Oscar madness quote ............is this really true |
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oscarmadness
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| ADR42 wrote (View Post):
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humpy head has given me good results so far
really shocked read Oscar madness quote ............is this really true
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Not that I have anything against humpy head.. but it has given you good results for two reasons..
1. Your flowerhorn probably had it in its gene..
2. The food has much higher concentration of protein.. if I am not mistaken it is close to 60% protein..
Both of them have worked together to give you the result..
Daily feeding of high protein diet is never good to cichlids in special.. they need more balanced food..
what if I feed you Cheese, Macaroni and Red Meat every day morning, evening, how long you think your digestive system will tolerate... 
With FH, I have always seen people hurry.. everymorning checking whether color has come, hump has grown, feed him with more power diets and in the process his digestive system collapses..
Feed him good, keep him well (water) ... he will take his own time depending on his genetics to shape up.. once he blossoms.. you will have a masterpiece...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| thanks buddy |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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hi,
i'm new here but very happy about this thread.
just 2 weeks back i bought x0 ocean free humpy head
but thank god i mixed it with taiyo grow small pellets and am feeding my fh and koi.
when i asked my friend in the trade, he explained that these products contain harmful chemicals,colourants and some steroids which will slowly kill the fish
now i have discontinued it
for head i'm buying marine dried shrimp w/o salt from local market. it contains calcium and creatinin
for colouration and white of egg boiled hard and squeezed through mosquito net which looks like worms
for head. in the farms people are using maggots which r rich in protien for sizing and head devolopment |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| i have a golden monkey fh never give him any humpy head or those line of products but still he has a beautiful head and all the fh characteristics i feed him chicken liver and arowana sticks every alternate days and use hanging filter instead of power filter. |
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Bahsociety
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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| i bought Humpy head last month when i visited kolkata i am feeding my Red cap orands Hikari Lion Head and i am planing to feed humpy head along with it will that gona give me higher head growth |
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BoyuR
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Humpy Head |
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Hi,
I am from chennai. Actually we are the dealers of BOYU. we have a new product from aqua called "HUMP HEAD"
which has a very good response all over tamilnadu.the protein content is 62% whereas humpy head contains only 58% |
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