were do white saum variant green terrors come from?

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Rapp has only wild white suam (non-Stalsbergi) in his stock, but not red suam. Apparently, they have not found the collection point of the original red sauum that were imported decades ago that became the aquarium strain. In most GT literatures they describe red suam as an unknown species from an unknown location. I am curious what the wild red suam looks like when they find it.


(On the other hand, I haven't always found wild fish to be more aggressive. I currently have some wild Peruvian scalare that are actually pretty mild, milder than the domestic silver angels I initially had them with, even though the wilds were twice the size of the domestics.)

If your wild scalare are twice the size of domesticated angel, they may not be scalare. A recent tropical fish magazine I read identified a dozen new angel fish species versus only 3 in the past. One species has naturally red color and the other has blue/green that are candidates for line breeding into colored angels.
 
My stals grew pretty quick. From 1" to 6" (alpha male at least) in 6 months. The females reached 4" at this point.
 
Rapp has only wild white suam (non-Stalsbergi) in his stock, but not red suam. Apparently, they have not found the collection point of the original red sauum that were imported decades ago that became the aquarium strain. In most GT literatures they describe red suam as an unknown species from an unknown location. I am curious what the wild red suam looks like when they find it.




If your wild scalare are twice the size of domesticated angel, they may not be scalare. A recent tropical fish magazine I read identified a dozen new angel fish species versus only 3 in the past. One species has naturally red color and the other has blue/green that are candidates for line breeding into colored angels.



so what your saying is the gold saum we all know and love cant be found in the wild? , that would mean that the species evolved and is starting to look different. thats wicked. that is what your saying right?...
 
My stals grew pretty quick. From 1" to 6" (alpha male at least) in 6 months. The females reached 4" at this point.

How are they doing? I looked on your thread and havent seen an update on them in a while. Would love to see how they're doing. ;-)
 
How are they doing? I looked on your thread and havent seen an update on them in a while. Would love to see how they're doing. ;-)

Unfortunately I had to shut down my tanks back in november. Because of work commitments and such. So I had to sell them. I believe the person who has them has had some spawns and they are growing well.

My biggest (fishy) regret is having to get rid of them. Definately my all time favourite fish (so far!).
 
Unfortunately I had to shut down my tanks back in november. Because of work commitments and such. So I had to sell them. I believe the person who has them has had some spawns and they are growing well.
My biggest (fishy) regret is having to get rid of them. Definately my all time favourite fish (so far!).

Ah man, sorry about that. Curious, were yours Wild?
 
If your wild scalare are twice the size of domesticated angel, they may not be scalare. A recent tropical fish magazine I read identified a dozen new angel fish species versus only 3 in the past. One species has naturally red color and the other has blue/green that are candidates for line breeding into colored angels.
I've had domestic angels (koi and a gold pearlscale) in the past just as big as these, but they're larger than the domestics I had when I got them.
 
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