Help with ID of strain please

[baldpate]

I bought this guy/gal from my local fish store. I was told it was a wild caught green. I would have bought it anyway, but I'm skeptical of the ID.

Can any more experienced folks out there ID this strain?

Many thanks!

29639

29640

[baldpate]

As Ben Stein said in Ferris Bueller's Day Off...

"Anyone? Anyone?" :)

[grelot]

does it sometimes show moodbars??

[baldpate]

Nope. No mood bars ever. All colors always stay the same.

[ShinShin]

The stress bars are faintly visible in the top pic. I don't believe it is a wild nor green discus. Its either a brown or blue discus. Brown if you're old school, blue if you subscribe to the new theory on classification.

Mat

[baldpate]

Very interesting!

To clarify, the fish does have bars (six I believe). However, they are faint and they never vary in intensity or darkness.

[Rod]

The stress bars are faintly visible in the top pic. I don't believe it is a wild nor green discus. Its either a brown or blue discus. Brown if you're old school, blue if you subscribe to the new theory on classification.

Mat

Agree with mat :)

[baldpate]

Cool!!!

Thanks for the help!

[cschwaderer]

I'd say it's a brown too and doesn't look like it would be wild. I've had Pidgeon Blood Snakeskins that come out just like that one looks - some of the juveniles don't hold the patterns from generation to generation.

But it's still a nice looking fish - I like the bright red eye.