Which One is Different?

[Willie]

I thought this would be interested for people looking to enhance discus color. These are Gold Leopard Intermediates from Winnie's Discus. I got these from Ceyhun slightly under a year ago, so they're ~15 months old. Recently, a fellow breeder bought a mated pair from Winnie's and Ceyhun added a gift discus for me. The fish went through quarantine and was added to his/her siblings yesterday. After a big water change, they were nice enough to line up for a video.



Ceyhun raises his discus on beefheart and Sera Discus Granules. These foods contain no coloring agents in order so as to preserve their golden base. Mine get beefheart and FDBW, but the tank also gets VibraBites and earthworm flakes for the Corydoras axelrodi and gold rams in there. Of course, the discus will also eat these.

Ceyhun's present is the third fish from the left. You can see the golden base when fed without colorants. In contrast, my GLI's have developed a blue/white base with very red patterns. The VibraBites ingredient statements shows the following artificial colors: Red 3, Yellow 5. So these two colorants darken the pattern, but also dramatically change the base color.

Those of you with particular sharp eyes will also appreciate the Winnie's GLI's have multiple rings in their pattern.

[seanyuki]

The video is not working.

[Willie]

The video is not working.

It runs when I click on it, Francis. Bigger brains than mine will be needed to solve this problem!

[BrendanJ23]

Won’t work for me either.

[Vinni Smith]

The video needs to be edited and set to public instead of private
Hope this helps,
V

[LizStreithorst]

Vinnie, apparently you have a bigger brain than Willie. Good job!

[Willie]

Thanks, Vinnie. I think it should work now.

[danotaylor]

Very informative Willie, and really nice discus from Ceyhun.

[Vinni Smith]

Vinnie, apparently you have a bigger brain than Willie. Good job!

Well, maybe. But only a small part of mine works.
Willie seems to have more access to the working parts!
; ^ )

[Vinni Smith]

Those are indeed some beautiful discus!

[Willie]

A slightly better video of them looking for red meat, .