Electric blue acara?

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RBoydIV

RBoydIV

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I bought this guy from a chain pet store under the general misc. SA cichlids. Looked different right away. Is there such thing as a electric blue acara not much on it on the internet. Think I found my self something special. Pictures don't do it justice.
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Yes. Do a search here, there are a few threads. They've only been available a couple months.
 
Very nice find. Looks great.

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Let us know how he does as he grows. I keep a blue acara and a yellow acara. The yellow has a far more tame nature, the blues I find can be grumpy, so it will be interesting to see the temperment of this guy.
 
Good luck, I haven't seen an adult electric blue acara yet so I won't het any until the genetics strengthen.
 
Yesterday at a LFS I just bought an acara that looks exactly like yours, only they were calling it a "neon blue acara". Are they the same thing? Mine is the same size and looks identical. Beautiful little guy.
 
meggo said:
Yesterday at a LFS I just bought an acara that looks exactly like yours, only they were calling it a "neon blue acara". Are they the same thing? Mine is the same size and looks identical. Beautiful little guy.
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I have the exact same species and it's an electric blue acara.

Naming things something a little different is a tactic many breeders and LFSs use to attract (and often swindle) customers who don't necessarily understand what they are looking at. A customer who doesn't know any better will ask what it is or say something like, "I think I have seen this fish online. I think it's called an electric blue acara or something like that." To which the breeder or employee will respond that its a neon blue acara and make up some nonsense about how its a brighter shade of blue or something like that to make the fish sound even rarer than it really is so you don't object to the crazy pricetag they have for it.

As a general rule, I don't shop at places that do this because it indicates to me that the shop either doesn't know what they have and therefore make up a name without having any real knowledge about the fish to give to their customers, or they are trying to rip people off.

I have encountered this scenario before with super red severums. I bought a 2" male for $30 from a LFS. When he started getting aggressive with my other fish, I went to trade him in at the same store I got him at. Well this store offered 50% credit for whatever the fish was listed as. When I got there, they had relabeled the super red severums (literally right in front of me) to "fire red severums" for $40 each. They offered me $10 for my 5" red sev, stating it wasn't a super red (again...I bought it from them labeled as a super red). When I asked what the difference between super and fire red was, they said the fires had more red on them (they had less than the one I had in my bucket).

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