View Full Version : Discus sp. Heckelii
From my lfs. I didnt pick it up, just for you to enjoy.
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0903/igdlu6x4_DSC05951.JPG
Pair of discus that was also in the lfs, dont know what kind though.
http://www.fishfiles.net/up/0903/3ctxr1wc_DSC05999.JPG
Yanbbrox
03-09-2009, 8:23 PM
Looks like pigeon blood(bottom pic) nice pictures
BaTsBR
03-12-2009, 11:56 PM
the wild ones doesn't seen to be heckel, but I can be wrong. Nice discus anyway
and the second pic surely is a pigeon blood, very nice one.
Ullopincrate
03-12-2009, 11:58 PM
Second is pigeon blood. I have one that looks almost exactly like it.
BloodredOscar
03-13-2009, 12:00 AM
Second is pigeon blood. I have one that looks almost exactly like it. Really? It looks like a gold nugget to me? Meh, never head of a pigeon blood :/
hillbilly
03-13-2009, 12:54 AM
Really? It looks like a gold nugget to me? Meh, never head of a pigeon blood :/
I'm sorry, but if you've never heard of the "pigeon blood" bloodline of discus, then you know very little about discus. A great number of modern discus bloodlines carry the pigeon blood gene. Do you see the little black specks on the fish in the pictures? That is called pepper, a dead giveaway that these fish carry the pigeon blood gene. Pigeon blood fish have pepper as opposed to bars, or stripes. This is a result of a mutated gene found in the pigeon bloodline.