What makes a Thai Silk?

[theunytedone]

Aloha everyone,

Well i've tried to ponder the matter very much but have no idea what 2 fish are used to produce a thai silk FH. (referring to the one in my picture)

He is a solid blue (the gradient kind of varies)
but has no flowers or pearl-ish swirly markings.

i have recently seen some babies at LFS that looked just like mine did when it was smaller, but they have a flowerline and are a little more pearl-ish...there was no tag for the LFS babies, but it looked like they would be "Blue Dragon"...makes sense right?

Thanks in advance for any answers.
Not really a FH geek but love my/my gf's TS very much and wanna know more.

 

[BLUECAN]

No one knows exactly how they were developed, the babies you came across may be thai silk crosses, they have been all over the market the last just over a year due to several breeders trying to cross to other FH"s and develop better thai silk's especially the kok as the first silks had little or no kok , in the mean time they obviously have a lot of babies left over and many of these crosses turn out very nice too. I have often wondered where they got that solid TS skin from too lol , i dont know much about discus but i know they have strains with the same color as well as with rams...very interesting....the closest natural fish I could see with similar to this white-blueish skin is texas cichlids (carpintis) but of course theirs consist of pearls not a solid, but their color can be the same.

 

[theunytedone]

Thanks mate,

I also have pondered on the texas cichlid..but not really knowing much about breeding possibilities between species just leads me to doubt my own thinking. lol..

 

[FishFreak95]

I've asked this too. Its most likely just selective breeding