Strictly Red Turqs...

[brewmaster15]

Hi all,
After having ran this board for the last year... I have seen a lot of fish pics! :) What always amazes me is the slight variations that are found in all the strains out there. I had an idea for a series of threads here. I thought we could go strain by strain.. post your pics of that particular strain. It might interesting to see all the subtle differences.

We could do similar for many other strains as well.

Red turqs are always a safe starting point, so how about some Red turq pics everyone.


My idea so I guess I will start....

thanks,
al

[April]

Sounds great. heres a little red turq checker i had. lost it ..when i moved and new pipes. but it was on of my favs.
id love to get more.
this is when he was young still.

[April]

heres another pic. better colour.

[Carol_Roberts]

Here's my favorite Red Turk picture

[Rod]

This is a male red turquoise variation.

[Rod]

These red turks are around 9 months old.

[Rod]

This is a german male red turk i owned many years ago, he was a great breeder 8)

[Rod]

This is another red turquoise, sex unknown.

[Rod]

Not sure if i should add this one as strictly speaking they are a cross( red turquoise X brown), but they are showing many features of what is classified as red turk imo, so here they are ;D

[Rod]

These are also red turk X brown from the same spawn as the fish above. they are around 4" and just starting to show good colors.

[SLY]

alright I'll bite. ;D

[SLY]

some semi adults.

[SLY]

another.

[larry lob]

here is my turk pair she is stunning he is a little odd shaped here and there.
Larry

[larry lob]

and the male

[TheDiscusKid]

Heres one of mine :)

[Tyler]

Heres one of mine....still a young fish, but nice color on him/her.

Tyler

[Brad NC]

One Pat_in_NC gave me. Horrible shape but I love him! Newbies take note of the arrow-shaped head.

[EthanCote.com]

I'm curious to know what feature is use to classify a strain as a red turq?

Is there suppose to be some sort of redness to the overall body with blue striations?

Thanks for the input.


Cheerio,

Chi

PS: Nice fishes all.

[John_Nicholson]

Here is an old pic of one of mine.

-john

[DIZ]

Carol
Real nice picture. Looks likefish are not even in a tank
DIZ

[fcdiscus]

These are my German Red Turks. Frank

[brewmaster15]

Chi... Thats one of the reasons for this thread :)

-al

[discusman69]

Red Turks have always been my favorite strain. Here is one of mind.

Bin

[Rick_May]

Al, this is great it also might be a great idea to find out what everyone thinks makes a red Turk a red Turk. Here’s how I'd describe a red Turk and I'll also point some of the previous pics that I think are good examples.

IMO a red turk is to have smooth horizontal red lines on a blue background. The lines should be long and not broken up into spots. Nor do I think their should be vertical lines. The key point IMO is that the anal and dorsal fins should become more red the further away from the body. Now, IMO if the dorsal and anal fade to blue then they are blue turks. IMO good examples are the first three pics of rod’s, the first three pics from Sly, the pic by Bruce Duong, Brad NC, and John Nicholson. Now I’m not saying that the others aren’t red turks or nice fish (because they are all real nice) its just they IMO don’t fit the classic red turk profile.

So that’s my the way I look at it. But I’d like to hear differing points of view.

[Aquarius]

This is my favorite Red Turk from Mat P.
Still less then a year, but laying already ;D

PS. Yes, them are nice Green Algae spots on the tank, not the fish!

[brewmaster15]

Hi Rick,
Thats Just the kind of discussion I hoped would come out of this.. :)

-al

[hkong]

My F1 Red Turquoise is the modification from Bin Sato’s Cobalt Reds. I hope F2 will do better.

--Henry

I just Love those Red Turquoise. Hope I have some of the Quality you guy's have some day.

Bruce_Duong
I really love your Pic. Not just the fish.

Ronald

[Kagan]

John you got a wonderful red turq there and IMO, the best example so far.

Kagan

[gary1218]

Bin,

SUPERB pair of red turqs. They look like they have a very light green, almost mint green, body color along with the red striations. Or, was it just the lighting?

GARY

[Discus Tefe]

;D ;D Just get this Male Turqs from a friend of Mine.. ;D ;D

[beta]

They've all paired up and laying but no wrigglers so far :(

[beta]

My fav among the three :)

[beta]

my three turks along with the pb's

[John_Nicholson]

Thank you Kagan

-john

[Discus_Hans]

okay Let me try, http://www1.tip.nl/~t640879/images/mcv-322f.jpg

Don't know why it doesn't work :( :( :(

I give up, easier, go to my home page http://www.discus-hans.nl English banner Gallery first page 18 red turks :) :) Sorry, Hans.

[limige]

geez, i've been gaining quite a colection of rt's. kinda weird, i didn't really mean to, they are some very nice fish!!

k, my turn, i'll post some

[limige]

above is what i feel as a "classic" turk example, but i'm prefering turks with a yellow base to them, this photo doesn't show it as well but heres another turk

[limige]

here's two i'm hoping will work out as a pair, they've shown all the signs!!!

[limige]

k one more

[mutfish]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid55/p277f1f413d3db0b5fd79cf4617b8c5ec/fc81dc13.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid55/pcdc3745448fbafba997358e832624935/fc81dc15.jpg

[SLY]

mutfish those are nice turks. ;)

[mutfish]

Thanks SLY, they came from some of Mike Wells stock many moons ago 8)

[Willie]

Rick;

There are turquoise and red turquoise, no blue turquoise. Aside from this triviality, your assessment is good.

Here's one of mine which originated with Bing's Red Cobalts many cycles ago. There was a snakeskin cross in the grandparent generation of this fish.

Willie

[April]

Willie i will take that one. i really like it.
and those ones of mikes are very nice also.

[Jeff]

Ok I'll bite. This are from Wayne and he calls them swallows. I only have two and both are females. :(

[njdiscus]

Here's mine.

[brewmaster15]

Jeff,
Let me know if you ever want to decrease those two "swallows" to one! ;) I like that fish!!!!

-al

[April]

Brew...i swear Jeff already promised me....the swallows. lol.

[Mr.Trips]

Please excuse my Stupidity, Ignorance, etc. But what two fish originally made up the Turq Reds?

Tanks!

[Jeff]

;D Sure will.

[BJ]

Here are a few of my Reds with an Alencer...

Ben

[BJ]

One more...


Ben

[CARY_GLdiscus]

;)

[Ramon Anastacio]

Can I call these fish red turquoise too?

[Ramon Anastacio]

Royal Blue/Red Turquoise?

[Ramon Anastacio]

What about this one? Just curious.

[Mat]

Ramon lovely fish mate, one of them looks like its got some brown discus in it, ive got turqs reds and blues a little young though to appreciate their full potential theyre all in with a blue diamond which contrasts nicely 8)

[Mike_T]

I have to say red turks and red turk/RSG crosses are still the prettiest fish out there...

-Mike T 8)

[Ivan]

Male RT with friends

[CHughes]

Here's my 2 year old female!

[CHughes]

Sorry about that, I'm having trouble attaching the image file...one more time!

[Fish_Fin-atic]

Hey njdiscus, are those Mike Wells' fish? I've got some that look very similar.

[CHughes]

Fin_Finatic
Sorry to say I don't know the origin. I happened by my local lfs and they had a really nice batch (they claim from Thailand...who knows!). I suspect there is a local breeder around my area who really knows his/her stuff.

Chris

[April]

heres my rt x brown. still growing....

[Rick00]

here's one of my rt

Rick

[Rick00]

here's another

[Ardan]

This is a great teaching thread if all could please repost your pics if you have them


April, Al, Carol, Ben, Cary, anyone :)

Thank you
Ardan

[Rod]

Hi Ardan,

Heres a few red turks.

[Rod]

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[Rod]

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[Ardan]

Thank You Rod!
Those are beautiful discus! :)

[Willie]

In the world of Red Turqs, Rod is king.

Willie

[DLFL]

Again most of the photos are missing now.

[John_Nicholson]

18 total post and all you can do is complain?

-john

[Keith Perkins]

And on a thread no one has posted on in almost eight years.