Greens and Heckels

[mckchu]

Had the Green for 9 months, and the blue heckels for 4 months now...

[Wahter]

Had the Green for 9 months, and the blue heckels for 4 months now...

Those look really nice! :D:D:D



Walter

[*Polka dots roc*]

Very pretty:D

[tacks]

very very nice looking wilds, good luck with them ed

[bumblebee]

Very nice wild, is it easy to find wild discus in Hong Kong? If I remember the ph is around 6-6.5 out of the tap water right.

Alex

[Rod]

Beautiful!

[dpt8]

Nice fish !! I'll take the green :9)

[Gajowa]

Lovely fish !!! Good luck with them

[mckchu]

Very nice wild, is it easy to find wild discus in Hong Kong? If I remember the ph is around 6-6.5 out of the tap water right.

Alex

Lucky for me - the tap water from the HK Island side is acidic but not too soft. So I don't need to do too much with the water to begin with, but still need to use peat to soften the water and keep the pH down.

Not easy to find wild fish in HK, as there are too many bred-strains that are not too expensive around. Most good quality wilds goes to Japan, and recently to Taiwan and China mainland. Took me over 6 months of asking around, searching, and waiting to get hold of around 12 good fish. There are regular shipments of plecos and string rays from South America as there is a large demand for these fish, and only once in a while would they order wild discus. And when they do - the good quality fish are gone before they are out of the box, as there are a few keen wild discus keepers in HK - enough to allow competitions but not enough to justify regular shipments... too bad.

Here are 4 more ... these I've had between 6 to 9 months...

[ivo]

you have a collection of stunning wild discus. the green is just sensational. what strain is the one in the first picture? the one that has a lot of red color and markings on body? absolutely beautiful.

[plecocicho]

Very nice wilds! The first two pictures of the second post are not wild green discus but wild blue(/brown species-

[Darren's Discus]

Very nice.


cheers

[mckchu]

Very nice wilds! The first two pictures of the second post are not wild green discus but wild blue(/brown species-


yes, the first photo of the second lot is a wild Blue - Nhamunda Blue; the Heckel on first set are Abacaxis Cobalt Heckels ...

[architect1]

wow there beautiful i can see how they slowly evolved them to become what we have in are tanks now.

[frankline]

I will give you a litlle update on my heckels and what we have done and so far it helped. We lowered temperature to 27deg C, pH to 4 and added plenty of peat moss (in the bag) to a tank. That "crazy" heckel stayed by that bag for a couple of days and was picking on it.
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franklline

[Henrik.T]

Very nice looking wilds

Henrik

[kid 2005]

Good fish, i go for the green, they look so nice and brilliant, but greens get greener with natural green enhancement, enjoy !!!!!

[rsawest@yahoo.com]

Beautiful wilds!

[fisharemyfriend]

they are absolutely breath taking

[marielou20]

magnificent wilds....one of my dreams to have some like these one day;)....

[AlexR]

Not easy to find wild fish in HK, as there are too many bred-strains that are not too expensive around. Most good quality wilds goes to Japan, and recently to Taiwan and China mainland. Took me over 6 months of asking around, searching, and waiting to get hold of around 12 good fish. ...

Time well spent! Great!

Alex