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.
These two pictures are adult female blues with a prominent center bar.
Jerry Baer
it's just a box of rain
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.
Jerry Baer
it's just a box of rain
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.
Jerry Baer
it's just a box of rain
Whatever it may be, it looks like a very nice fish. Good luck with all of them.
Yun-
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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)
-Elliot