Ive seem hints of iridescence on the gray main body, mine also have a lot of blue scattered through their fins.
Firemouth Color
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That’s a beauty! I will have to switch back lights and see what I come up with. I feel like this light is a little too much anyway.
I've got meeki from 4 different shops in my area and the meeki available at each shop definitely differ in colour and shape
They're stunning and remind me of firemouths I had 30 years ago when I have a thing in my head that they were bigger and better looking then with more grey and red? Maybe its my memory
Thanks! Yeah that’s what I mean. When adults they have more grey and red. When spawning the red gets brighter.
Thank you, I've had 7 meeki for around 10 months now, some of them show good colour most of the time and some are drab most of the time. I've recently got 6 more that are currently in quarantine, the 6 new fish are from the same breeder as the fish in photo no.2, that fish is my smallest at only around 4-5cm long but has shown serious potential with it's coloring lots of red and loads of spangling so I thought I'd get some more of the same and swap out the dullest. I plan to rehome my 3 dullest fish and replace them with the 6 new juveniles, giving me a total of 10 and these ten would still be from 4 different shops so plenty of different bloodlines if I did decide to breed them
FYI most local shops get their fish from the same local wholesalers therefor the same fish…
My local wholesaler supplies fish to 4 adjoining states
My local wholesaler supplies fish to 4 adjoining states
What about the UK though? I know this is is true about the US. Monopolies do exist.
I'm in the UK and over here it's not like that, my local shops use different suppliers, even the big chain stores like maidenhead aquatics use different suppliers for each shop. My six little juveniles and the fish in photo 2 come from a shop about 10miles from me, they import their meeki from a breeder in Prague, he brings them over in a heated van. Before brexit this lfs used to import lots of fish from Germany but due to increased costs this is no longer a viable option for them, its very much up to the shop/owner/manager on where the fish come from, some breed in house, some source from UK and others come from further afield. A lot of the meeki I've found commercial available over here can be quite drab but these meeki from the Prague breeder always look very bright and spangled, I don't think the bloodlines are so overbred like they appear to be in the uk
