More Heckels

[Fishin dude]

Blue Face and Pineapple....possible pair

[Rod]

Good lookin discus but why are they called blue face? they look like the regular type to me.

Rod

[jim_shedden]

[Fishin dude]

Awe Heck Rod!, thanks Jim,
Not sure it is a regular Heckel, but it does have some green in the face?
I only have a few, so I am not an expert on the Heckels.

[Rod]

No offence intended fishin dude, just i've always considered blue face to have solid colored opercula and foreheads.

[Fishin dude]

Koola Rod,
I am still looking for one for the solid colored opercula.
Not sure if they are endemic to a particular area of the Amazon. It did have the most green/blue on the head out of 40 or so Heckels in the last shipment from Brazil.

[wildthing]

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No offence intended fishin dude, just i've always considered blue face to have solid colored opercula and foreheads.
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good ones will , most come up with solid blue faces & gills but only a very few retain that, it usually reduces to blue spots on the gills and a generally lighter body tone than regular Rio Negro heckels. It seems to be very water quality and diet related and heckels water conditions are very hard to maintain in a closed system as pH will crash all the time from the low conductivity. I have had many sold blue heckels arrive..even the whole body was solid blue, but within a coule of weeks they lose much of that blue tone a become striated again

[Fishin dude]

Great info wildthing, thanks!

[jimmyjoe]

Looks like a Blue face to me Fishin-dude. Generally blue-face are just more solid blue in the face region then other stiration's. ;D ;D ;D I like EM if you ever get sick of em send them to me I'll buy'em from ya..................Good luck Jim