My Dominate Blue Scorpion Male and some New Born Wigglers

[Tautog]

Good morning. I have posted several photo albums of my South American Discus Community... Today I am posting a couple of pictures of my largest dominate male... I call him Big Blue.

He is a Blue Scorpion whom I have grown out to between 6-7 inches. Notice the long fin growth on backside of dorsal fin. I have 12 Discus in my 150G and I have 4 pairs that spawn... They seem to pair bond and stay together although I did have my other large Blue Scorpion male try to switch partners... I had some drama for a while but my smaller Blue Diamond never backed down...

Please tell me your thoughts on this fish. I am going to attend the North American Discus Association (NADA) show in Austin next weekend and see what I can learn from the pros.

P.S. - third pic is of my newborn Discus wigglers...

BIG BLUE Pix

http://i1344.photobucket.com/albums/p654/jscarb639/Big%20Blue/BigBlueNo2_zps674513ca.jpg (http://s1344.photobucket.com/user/jscarb639/media/Big%20Blue/BigBlueNo2_zps674513ca.jpg.html)

http://i1344.photobucket.com/albums/p654/jscarb639/Big%20Blue/BigBlueNo1_zps34c5342f.jpg (http://s1344.photobucket.com/user/jscarb639/media/Big%20Blue/BigBlueNo1_zps34c5342f.jpg.html)

New Born Discus Wigglers

http://i1344.photobucket.com/albums/p654/jscarb639/Big%20Blue/Wigglers_zps18922b32.png (http://s1344.photobucket.com/user/jscarb639/media/Big%20Blue/Wigglers_zps18922b32.png.html)

[kkdiscus]

Beautiful fin.

[Mikemeets]

Yup love it.

[musicmarn1]

Handsome fish!! I love my blue scorpions dearly, my favourite kind of domestic discus so I love seeing yours!

[Tautog]

Thank you all. Music man. Do you have picture you can what on your Blue Scorpions? I have seen many variations online. Hoping I got the domestic type right since so many places can get type wrong. Mine have red tip fins and some specking in the blue. I like the colors on mine.

[Phillydubs]

What causes the fin growth like that? I have a blue diamond that I've been growing out from Josie and Miranda and it has a very long top fin like that. He's about 5" now or so. I have another red white that has long growth as well but it's on the bottom back fin.

It's very pretty just curious what causes such a growth? Is it just in the breeding line and finnage of that fish or does something else attribute to that type of growth

[Rudustin]

Beautiful fish! I also have a Blue Diamond that has the same kind of growth on his dorsal fin. I think this question has been answered before. It is the lineage of the fish and when I asked Hans he said that it seems predominant in Males but not necessarily so because I have seen females also have this growth as well. Congrats on the wrigglers and the beautiful parent. We should all wish him a Happy Father's Day.