Bizzaro;3028391; said:
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
