Showcase: Your favorite wild

[Yowi]

Mmmm, were do you purchase these fish???

These wilds come from Santarem Discus Ltd.
If I am right, in the States exclusive dealer is Mary Ellen Sweeney.

Will the stress bars in these wilds always be predominant? If so, is it because they are now in an aquarium? Not having wilds and then seeing these beautiful specimens, makes me anxious to get mine soon!

Jeff, stress bars in wilds work very different way than hybrids do...
All arround a lot of people associate prominent stress bars with stress conditions, sickness and potential problems.
Posibly in hybrids a lot of times you can find relationships, but in case of wilds this is much more extense and complex...

Basicly stress bars refers to camouflage system, designed to dissapear in their river biotopos, where lots of roots and branches help them to get blurred.
Discus use them to protect from predators, and is normal that when they feel threaten, finally stress bars are asociated with stress produced...
One thing is consecuence of the other, but this tool is much more complex in reallity.

I could even maintain that the way they use and activate the stress bars is used to communicate themselves...
If you watch wilds interact for enough time, you conclude they have a very interesting and basic corporal languaje, based in the way they switch on and off some bars, all at same time, none or even invert them...
According to different situations in the group, dominances, feeding time, etc, you find out they use different configs for their body bars...

For this reason wilds for me are a different and incredible world, much more interesting to admire and try to understand.
Environment affects their stress bars, that is absolutely true, but simplify to that in wilds is simplify too much...

I really do not prefer accentuated dark stress bars or the opposite.
For me that different options in so short space time, depending of state of mind and living rules between them is what never bores me to watch.

And wow Yowi, your wilds are soooooo amazing. I love the bright red colors!

Thanks Jose...

I present you another of my favourites...

Is an haraldi Royal blue, from Trombetas basin river...
This kind of royals are usually called "royal red" by the provider because of the intense red base colour...

Great fish Yowi, any chance of some full tank pics ?

Well, I have some different biotopos for different wilds...
For instance, this one I show is which I call the "solid reds biotopo"...



Anyway, this thread is to show your best wild in general for all, so I think if you like is better if I open a new one to present my tanks... or not?...

[DiscusBR]

Thank you, Yowi, for sharing the photos and your experiences. Your amazing collection of wilds and biotope tanks deserve a separate thead! I will be waiting for it.

[zchauvin]

Yowi I love the background/sides of your tank, what are you usong to get the colors?

[jcardona1]

so I think if you like is better if I open a new one to present my tanks... or not?...

Please do, I'm in love with your wilds, and that tank is amazing!

[zchauvin]

Please do, I'm in love with your wilds, and that tank is amazing!

+1

[damian_ireland]

+1

+2

[Melissa]

+2

+100

[zchauvin]

Nice melissa

[strawberryblonde]

Right now it is my high finned Heckel

Oh my gosh, seeing him makes me miss my old heckel SO much! He's long gone since I raised him in the 80's and sold him when he was 6 years old, but golly, I'd forgotten just how vivid he was. Waaaah, I want heckels!!!

[WMD]

and the winner of 'Showcase: Your favourite wild' goes to DiscusBR

Hi all,

What about start showing off your favorit wild? Here is my Royal Cuipeua.



Next?

[DiscusBR]

and the winner of 'Showcase: Your favourite wild' goes to DiscusBR

LOL! Thank you for the award. I really like my buddy, but the purpose of the thread was to show how beautiful wild discus can be. And I am just astonished by the beauty of the fish shown here. Thank you all for sharing your pictures and others for looking. The thread has become a powerful reminder on how spectacular wlld discus can be.

Now, what about your picture?

[YSS]

Here are my three. Taken with a camera phone and I am not a photographer, so the pictures don't look very nice. If some of the very talented phtographers took the pics, I am sure they will look much nicer.

[ewok]

here are some blue face heckels and rio nanay greens



this was sold to me as a blue... these were my first wilds.

[zchauvin]

Very nice fish... Hopefully by august ill have my first wilds. Ah I've never been so anxious before

[hekdiscus]

My alenquer Royal