Discus sp. Heckelii

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Jakob

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From my lfs. I didnt pick it up, just for you to enjoy.
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Pair of discus that was also in the lfs, dont know what kind though.
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Looks like pigeon blood(bottom pic) nice pictures
 
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;2899106; said:
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 :/
 
BloodredOscar;2899113; said:
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.
 
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