Probably an adult Albino Ring Leopard! That is a beautiful fish! Or I would just get 6-7 adult Checkerboards... I have a 4” I’ve grown from 2.5” so far and was just thinking the other day how awesome a complete school must look.
If you could buy any discus (cost does not matter) what would you buy?
let the opinions fly
*Noting we all understand that you would not keep just one discus
Probably an adult Albino Ring Leopard! That is a beautiful fish! Or I would just get 6-7 adult Checkerboards... I have a 4” I’ve grown from 2.5” so far and was just thinking the other day how awesome a complete school must look.
Tough choice for me either Hai Koon’s San Merah or Ung Seng Lip’s Alibino Pearl Diamond.
San Merah
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Albino Pearl Diamond
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Grasshopper
Francis
Ive been eyeballing on my seller's red pigeon discus for a long time. But he wont sell this fish.
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picture kinda blurry because I took ss from his instargam
I used to think that if someone developed a jet black discus but now I think that if that fish got sick I would not know it because as we know many discus turn black when they are sick. Now I would like to find and afford small wild or F-1 Tefe or Peruvian pure strain discus. They are available but available space is my problem.
Twenty-five years ago, I saw a tank of adult ring leopards in a specialty discus shop in Taipei. The fish were covered with rings throughout the body. The rings were so well formed that I first thought they were very large leopard spots, but they were actually rings. The fish were so high end that I didn't even bother to ask for a price. Haven't seen any ring leopards for a few decades now, but they were gorgeous. I'd be willing to drop some serious money if these came on the market today.
At my age, everything is irritating.
Cliff;
If you ever come across this strain again, they should know there is a motivated buyer in the Midwest.
Willie
At my age, everything is irritating.
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Everyone yearns for a fancy fish. All I want is an old time but good quality Blue Spotted Snake Skin. It's amazing how hard it is to make something that is no longer available. The other fish I really loved was the old fashioned Red Cover. The fancy popular ones today are tomato red rather than brown red.
I'd give up all those for a pair of top quality wild RSG's. To me there is no more beautiful fish.
Mama Bear
I feel the same way. I see so so many incredible strains but I am not sure I would go for them as my "dream fish".
A group of 12 wilds would be incredible. I see the Santarem wild discus and I get lost in their beauty. A school of Ice Red would be a real show stopped in my 270 gallon.