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    Default Re: Yellow heckel ??

    These two pictures are adult female blues with a prominent center bar.
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    Default Re: Yellow heckel ??

    These are heckle crosses and you will see how much thicker the center bar is. The fish in the first picture is watching her eggs. The fish in the last picture will eat her eggs within one hour of laying them.
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    Default Re: Yellow heckel ??

    This is also a heckle cross. If it was a true heckle the thick center bar would extend better into the dorsal and anal fins.
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    Default Re: Yellow heckel ??

    Whatever it may be, it looks like a very nice fish. Good luck with all of them.

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    Totally not an ichthyologist and definitely have had wilds (blues) with emphasized middle bar but what gets me is how the bar appears to further expand at top of body to dorsal fin rather than start to taper. Raises an eyebrow. Natural cross??? Or just randomness? At the same time Yogi's third pic shows expanding middle bar as body meets dorsal fin so that kind of dampers my point. Love the speculating though. I once had a "brown" (wild caught, drab, not many markings, sort of had a "high body" shape, where there was red it was VERY red) with thick and distinct middle bar that always made me curious as to whether or not it was a natural cross. Picked out from a tank full of about 20 fish where the majority were the same as described. That was about 20 years ago from a guy I know who only brought in wild discus (and seeing that sight forced me to buy at least one of those specimens! Saw a similar discus in B. Dergen's (Sp?) wild caught discus book toward beginning of book)
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    Default Re: Yellow heckle ??

    Quote Originally Posted by John_Nicholson View Post
    Well I have some F2 heckel X penang eruptions that look exactly like it......

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    I wonder where they came from. Lol... It does look very similar.
    F3 Heckel Penang cross


    F2 Male Heckel Cross
    Last edited by JamesP; 02-28-2015 at 01:04 PM.

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