Cross between blue diamond and Marlboro red

[MD.David]

Peppered Pancakes!
Great shape... and they appear to be healthy.
I always find genetics so interesting.

[Quintin]

Sorry for barging in on your thread.those babies look good.
I know crossing pb and non pb is 90% of the time a bad idea especially for a novice breeder, but is it not also true that some master breeders with a good understanding of discus genetics occasionally cross a turquoise based discus to pb to breed the peppering out of a line? so experienced input would be appreciated

[nc0gnet0]

Pigeon blood to non pigeon blood cross's are general done using a barless non pigeon blood fish. This is what makes the turq such a terrible non pigeon blood to work with. Clean looking fry at a young age is promising, yet, peppering can and does develop as the fish matures.

And FWIW, the Stendker Dark Angel has Marlboro red and blue diamond in it's genetics.

The real issue here is not that your doing the cross, or have purchased fish from the cross, it's that whoever bred them didn't take the time to grow them out a bit more and cull the peppered ones. Hopefully he kept some of the fry for himself to work with, if not it is generally ill advised.

[Adam Harness]

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[Dudley Eirich]

I think that they look great!. I would love to have them in my tank.

[Adam Harness]

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[warblad79]

I can see peppering

[MD.David]

I see a very healthy discus!
Nice shape and actually a pretty cool looking fish.... not as crazy stunning as some but still a beautiful fish.
A dark water planted tank with 7 of those and 3 wilds would look amazing.
Very raw roots-ish, kind of like old dirt blues.

Cheers mates,