Electric Blue Severum

[awwinterfall54]

Does electric blue severum exist?

I would like to know where to get one. I remember seeing some really blue ones in a store but back then I didn't have the space.

 

[neutrino]

There are some Heros species wild collection locations with varying amounts of blue, occasionally imported, none are what I'd call electric. About 1991-1992 I saw what they were calling "blue severums" at a shop in Cambridge MA, not identified by place of origin-- very nice and you could legitimately call them a blue fish, almost a lapis color, but you wouldn't call them electric. I've seen some 'red spotted turquoise severums' for sale (not AZ Gardens), nice color if the photos can be trusted, I don't know their origin.

Summing up, I've seen severums with some nice blue or turquoise in them but I've never seen or heard of 'electric blue severum'.

 

[twentyleagues]

I had a green severum years ago he ate a ton of algea wafers, he stole them from the pleco all the time. His color was very blue. I don't know if that was the cause or not. He was a typical severum when I got him but he got more blue as time went on, not electric blue just dark blue. I sold him to a pet shop for a hundred bucks when I went African. They asked where I got him from. Funny thing was I got him there about 2 years earlier.

 

[ryansmith83]

There are no electric blue Heros that compare to electric blue rams, acaras, etc. The closest you’ll get are some of undescribed species out of Brazil that have wide blue striation on the body, but there are no Heros with solid iridescent blue bodies like the line-bred “electric blue” cichlids.

 

[Malte81]

Heros Tapajos has a nice blue colour.
I wouldn't call it electric blue but looks very nice.

 

[FINWIN]

I had a green severum years ago he ate a ton of algea wafers, he stole them from the pleco all the time. His color was very blue. I don't know if that was the cause or not. He was a typical severum when I got him but he got more blue as time went on, not electric blue just dark blue. I sold him to a pet shop for a hundred bucks when I went African. They asked where I got him from. Funny thing was I got him there about 2 years earlier.

Sounds like my severum Chip. He was sold as a green severum but hasn't been 'green' the whole time I've had him. He generally stays a navy blue color, almost black (looks pretty with his gold eyes). At times he goes blue silver with a black band near the tail. Occasioanlly he looks like a washed out brown perch.