Some pictures from denmark

[Martin]

Here are a few of my fish.

http://www.akvariesiden.dk/galleri_ny/uploads/1975_4355695.jpg
Always hungry red marlboro and solid tyrk

http://www.akvariesiden.dk/galleri_ny/uploads/1975_3340927.jpg

http://www.akvariesiden.dk/galleri_ny/uploads/1975_4442747.jpg
Red tyrk male and his female in the back.. a shame its a bad cross..

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3110/solid7ro.jpg
solid tyrk

http://www.akvariesiden.dk/galleri_ny/uploads/1975_4488659.jpg
What a great dad, the eggs always get eaten over night though.

Enjoy !

[KIWI13]

Very Nice Indeed... :)

[Condor]

Cool! Altums and Discus! How big is your setup? I always wanted to try that combo. Great looking fish! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Adrian

[Martin]

Its 530 liters, that must be about 120 gallon. 160cm*55cm*60 cm

1 red t
2 red marlboro
3 brilliant t
3 solid t
1 pigeon of some kind
3 altum angels

[Green Country Discus]

Great job! Good looking fish and clean set-up!:D

[Clabbe]

Very nice fish, almost as nice as the SWEDISH fish :):):):):)

/Clabbe of Sweden

[Rod]

Great discus, especially all the turk types. :)

[Martin]

Came across these guys today and just had to have them :)
This is 10 minutes after coming out of the bag.
Wish me luck guys;)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/622/hpim16303xz.jpg

[Martin]

They have eaten some.. They are watching us closely :)
One of them has a bad pelvic fin.. Its smaller than the other one, and it doesnt look like the fish uses it.. hopefully this will get better in time.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/115/hpim1634edit5pf.jpg

[Green Country Discus]

Martin, looking good. My wife loves the heckles but we have no room. Good luck with them. I have never tried any and hear they are tough. Keep us posted.

[Martin]

Here's an update on the Wild Heckels I bought.

http://www.akvariesiden.dk/galleri_ny/uploads/1975_64270.jpg

[Elcid]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[nicholas76]

wow

love these heckels best of luck with them

really look forward to progress pictures

[Martin]

a few new pictures.

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/908/hpim1678lille1vh.jpg

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/669/hpim1675lille3ev.jpg

Enjoy ;)

[AmberC]

Very pretty! Thanks for sharing those!
Amber

[Clabbe]

Good job Martin!! That´s what i call a round Discus :)

/Claes

[marilyn1998]

Gorgeous fish!! WHat kind of Heckels are those? Blue-faced?? I love them!

[Timbo]

hey Martin, whats haapanen? (happening)

nice fish, good luck and keep us posted.

[Ryan]

Martin, those are beautiful fish! The heckels look like they're doing well... but all of those blue fish you have are wonderful! Nice shapes and great colors. Thanks for the pics :)

Ryan

[Martin]

Sorry about the overdue reply :crazy:
Thank you all for the nice comments on my fish.
I think the heckels are rio negro, but thats just a guess.
My tank has been real busy lately, suddenly they all reached puberty I guess. I now have 5 females, of 11 fish total, laying eggs every week, but only 3 of them have mates of their own. My red turk must be enjoying life right now, he has 3 females trying to impres him all day long. Once while he and his chosen mate was going at it, another female started laying eggs 10cm from them and she wanted him to fertilise her eggs too :)
So because of this fighting and chaos I sold a few of the Heckels, keeping the biggest one offcourse ;)

Next week I will get some spawning tanks, there are some really neat Brilliant turk/solid turk pairs, which I believe would make some beautifull offspring.

[Martin]

a few new pictures, I had to sell half my discus because of agression, things are running a lot smoother now :)

My pleco 6-7 inches.
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/4416/hpim17832og.jpg

This pair has eggs in my 140 gallon tank.
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/1995/lkker4en.jpg

hope you like them :blushing:

[architect1]

Beautiful pics and amazing coloration in your fish. Thank you for sharing.

[yeomans]

I love the photos of your heckels, I would love to try my hand at a wild strain sometime, and have had my eye on heckels. unfortunately they are quite hard to come by where i live at. Great looking pictures, good luck with the recent spawnings. josh

[Martin]

I had to sell most of the heckels because they were chased a lot, but I kept the biggest one, I will see if I can get a picture of it soon, its turning out really nice and getting a beautifull red in the dorsal fin. The heckel is hiding most of the time now, because of the blue pair protecting their eggs :)

I want to get more wilds some day, but I love my domestics too much to sell them :love:

[pcsb23]

Martin,

Very nice pics! Nice plec too!

[Martin]

They are doing pretty well for first time parents, the fry have been moved to a driftwood and they are strugling to keep the little ones controlled.
This picture from today reminds me of "Three Billy Goats Gruff". I have a troll in my tank :D

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9948/trold7ip.jpg

[korbi_doc]

:D WOW! Martin, beautiful fish & neat pics, thanx...love the plecos too.. Dottie ;)

[AmberC]

That pleco is awesome and your fish have such great coloration! I love it! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Amber

[wild_heckel]

Martin,

I really really like the fish on the last picture. Is it blue or blue turq?
Such a beautiful shape, I can't find a fish with that quality where I live.
Did you get it as an adult?
Very very nice fish, like some of the pictures from Bernd Degen's book.
Thank you for sharing.

[Martin]

The male is a brilliant turq, he's the one with yellow eye. The female is solid turq .
I bought them all as 5-6 cm.
And this is today :D :D
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1710/ungs6id.jpg

It is amazing how well they handle the fry, since its their first time and they are in a 1.6m long tank. I saw the male fetching runners from the other side of the tank, he must have great eyes.
My tank is a mess now, I have the lights on at night and the algae LOVE it :(

[Martin]

a picture from today. Its a joy to watch these fellas grow larger every day.
I have started cleaning their tank again, still need some spots, but I dont want to disturb them more then I have to.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1158/13maj06lille8we.jpg

[ping]

Very nice discus. Thanks for sharing :)

Ronny

[Martin]

Updated picture from 17/5
They ate bbs for the first time.

http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/9492/hpim18418vu.jpg

[Martin]

A quick update, the lighter is about 8.5cm long. That must be about 3 inches ?

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/841/lighterbs5.jpg

[t_j]

A quick update, the lighter is about 8.5cm long. That must be about 3 inches ?

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/841/lighterbs5.jpg


Is this a picture of one of the fry (well no longer a fry:D )?

[Martin]

it is :)