Discus sp. Heckelii

[Jakob]

From my lfs. I didnt pick it up, just for you to enjoy.

 

[Jakob]

Pair of discus that was also in the lfs, dont know what kind though.

 

[Yanbbrox]

Looks like pigeon blood(bottom pic) nice pictures

 

[BaTsBR]

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]

Second is pigeon blood. I have one that looks almost exactly like it.

 

[BloodredOscar]

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]

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.