Discus with black tail

[Charles Crews]

Has anyone seen a discus with a black tail before? I have 9 discus in a 140gal high tech planted tank. One of them developed a black tail about a month ago...when I purchased him at the LFS his tail was clear. It is just the one out of 9 that has the black tail. All of the discus are eating well and don't appear to have any signs of illness. I just found this unusual.

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[TNT77]

I bought a group of juvie Checkerboard Pigeons from Sunrise Tropicals. 1 out of the 4 ended up with dark black fins, 1 with semi dark fins, and 2 had clear fins. Might have to do with peppering. The 2 with the dark fins had a touch of peppering, while the 2 with the clear fins had no peppering at all.

[Eddie]

As stated above, its the peppering. Pigeon bloods have wide ranges of peppering, from none (super clean) to being almost totally black. As the fish grows, it can get more prominent.

[DiscusOnly]

I have MG that doesn't pepper but has black color on the outer edge of it's fin/tail.

[Stag]

Nice Tires, 285/35 R20s sounds like they could go on a fast car!

[Darrell Ward]

Yep. It's only one of millions of discus swimming around with the mutated pigeon blood gene. The black peppering color can show up anywhere on the fish.

[Charles Crews]

Nice Tires, 285/35 R20s sounds like they could go on a fast car!

Yep! Nissan GTR ;)

[aXio]

My Fire Red has a completely black tail as well.

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