Blue Festae???

Stramn

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anyone ever seen a blue color morph festae??? I saw a pair at the LFS today, and couldn't get a pic. But never heard of such a thing before.
 

darth pike

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Traditionally festae males were green ... under actinic lights they might appear blue. That's about the only thing I can think of.
 

Stramn

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idk. the lights were standard t8 bulb warm white, the fish seemed blue not green. the owner showed me a book with them in it labeled as Nandopsis Festae "blue" collected from Ecuador
 

Blue Jaguar

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My experience has shown that they get that offset bluegreen flower on the base of the tail. I am not sure if these are pure festae but I picked up some at the LFS like the one pictured. Males tend to look blue-green.

festae.jpg
 

Stramn

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My experience has shown that they get that offset bluegreen flower on the base of the tail. I am not sure if these are pure festae but I picked up some at the LFS like the one pictured. Males tend to look blue-green.
they seem almost teal in color its really weird. i'll have to snap a pic
 

BIG-G

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Yes if you can please post a photo. Video would be even better!
would love to see this.
 

David R

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I've seen varying degrees of blueish/greenish hues on the few I've kept, but have never seen or heard of a "blue morph". Sounds like LFS marketing to me.
 
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