Thai Silk questions?
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Hi there... I have been on many forums and have kept track of Thai silk...Now if I am wrong then someone correct me but I am sure this is right...
When they first came out..all the photos and the few that I have seen in stores were a light silver/silky color...Very nice...then years later I read about a blue diamond color(which was actually blue/silk not white/silver silk....I payed not attenion to this untill i finally saw them in the store(and bought a few)...
I just hope that this stain is a little stronger against infectons..very nice to see different strains!!
and by the way I don't see the silver/whitish strain around any more...anyone care to comment....
The blue can defintely vary from strain to strain, breeder to breeder, and even fish to fish. Many also tend to look silvery, or washed out, due to camera flash, and sometimes the lighting used in the tank. IME they are a difficult fish to capture the true colors of unless you own some premium camera equipment, and know how to use it. As an example, here's a TS from a couple of years back shortly after these fish first surfaced in the USA. Same fish, but quite a difference between the first shot taken out of the water, and the rest of the pics taken in the tank.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?250748-3
Now you have some newer strains, some deeper blue in color, and in some the overall nuchal hump size appears to have been developed further as well. All this equates to is more inbreeding/line breeding to fix certain traits. Titanium, Blue Diamond, etc are nothing more than trade names that some Asian breeder or vendor has used to add some new sex appeal to their fish. In the beginning Channacrossbreeds called his Thai Silk, and Lakefishex called his Platinum. Those were the two original vendors that offered them up for sale.
When these fish first surfaced 3-4 years ago you couldn't buy a Thai Silk with a clean bill of health if your life depended on it. If you bought direct from Thailand it cost $150 + transhipping fees for a 2-3" fish, and the vast majority of people on MFK that bought them, lost them shortly after to hex/spironucleus etc.
Back then (late 2008/early 2009) most vendors on aquabid listed 4-5" Thai Silk in the $300 range.
Today you can buy juvies for $20 a fish, less if you buy in quantity, but like all FH the larger in size and the greater the potential the fish has, the higher the price tag.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?250748-3
Now you have some newer strains, some deeper blue in color, and in some the overall nuchal hump size appears to have been developed further as well. All this equates to is more inbreeding/line breeding to fix certain traits. Titanium, Blue Diamond, etc are nothing more than trade names that some Asian breeder or vendor has used to add some new sex appeal to their fish. In the beginning Channacrossbreeds called his Thai Silk, and Lakefishex called his Platinum. Those were the two original vendors that offered them up for sale.
When these fish first surfaced 3-4 years ago you couldn't buy a Thai Silk with a clean bill of health if your life depended on it. If you bought direct from Thailand it cost $150 + transhipping fees for a 2-3" fish, and the vast majority of people on MFK that bought them, lost them shortly after to hex/spironucleus etc.
Back then (late 2008/early 2009) most vendors on aquabid listed 4-5" Thai Silk in the $300 range.
Today you can buy juvies for $20 a fish, less if you buy in quantity, but like all FH the larger in size and the greater the potential the fish has, the higher the price tag.
Camera flash, substrate color, background color, lighting, can all affect how a Thai Silk (or any fish for that matter) will appear in a digital image. In the link posted below the breeder/vendor stated:
The TS shown in the link below was one of the first ones posted here on MFK back in 2008.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?199040
That fish was beat up, sick & not eating (it died shortly after), in a tank with light sand substrate, a light colored background, and even considering all that, plus flash from the camera, it still looks fairly blue to my eyes.
The TS shown in the link below was one of the first ones posted here on MFK back in 2008.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?199040
That fish was beat up, sick & not eating (it died shortly after), in a tank with light sand substrate, a light colored background, and even considering all that, plus flash from the camera, it still looks fairly blue to my eyes.
