Red Turquoise Discus

[Bizzaro]

thats a red turquoise? oh thank g** i didnt buy that one someone was trying to sell me... it was maybe a passion or something.... it was more RED then DARKER RED....

 

[revkkoolaid]

is that dan, as in dans discus? and ouch stafford, that is only 4-6 hours and 250- 300 miles away from me.

Still totally worth the drive IMO lol.

People drive to pick up from Dan's from El Paso, Oklahoma, and Arkansas to name a few. . .

I think he went by Gulf Coast Discus back when he was primarily in production. He's now Houston Aquarium Warehouse as he now deals in all types of fresh, brackish, and marine livestock as well as Discus.

 

[revkkoolaid]

Yep, Dan always has great fish.

He sure does! We buy all of our discus from Dan and have always had great success. Dude is a straight-up discus whisper lol.

His discus are always outstanding, clean, healthy, and well adjusted to tap water. Even his wild fish.

Plus his prices are always "reasonable" or dare I say cheap. . .

you get what you pay for at Dan's that's for sure.

 

[revkkoolaid]

thats a red turquoise? oh thank g** i didnt buy that one someone was trying to sell me... it was maybe a passion or something.... it was more RED then DARKER RED....

Keep in mind there's a ridiculous amount of variation amongst discus of the same strain. Even within the same batch sometimes. IMO more than any other farmed mass produced aquarium fish. Next add in the radical amount of color and pattern change discus go thru with mood, condtion, size, age, diet, lighting, etc etc. . . .

Not to mention "grade". I've seen healthy red turqs ,even in the same price range, that totally range, from ho-hum to OMG!!!

One quickly realizes that as with a lot of man-made fish the different types of discus strains typically end up quickly being just an overall basic descriptioin of appearance and nothing more. At the astonishing rate fish are farmed the strain ends up kind of a "basic idea" to a point. But if it wasnt for the on-going genetic mutation and rapid reproduction most of the strains wouldn't be here in the first place lol.

But with that being said it's really surprising sometimes how suddle the differences in characteristics that define each strain are as well.

"Oh no thats a male ultra super blue diamond snakeskin leopard pigeon blood melon."

Bottom line - buy discus that look good

 

[fishyjoe26]

cool, I'll have to make a trip down there.