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Turquoise which i believe is a Blue Turquoise. Courtesy of Rod
When i first joined on SD i kept looking for pictures of as many strains as i possibly could and i was somewhat successful but i know there are so many more strains and pics out there that i have never seen. So, it brings me to this thread. My goal is this, i want to post pictures of all strains on this specific thread for those beginners who would like to know more about the different stains out there. This would also be fun for non-beginners as well since we love pictures!. So these are my only requirements:
1: it can not be a picture of a wild since there is a site that already has ton of them and my goal is to cover man-made/hybrid strains.
2: it has to be a sub-adult or adult discus, no juvies what-so-ever. The reasoning in this is so that we can see how they will eventually look fully grown. i edited this to include sub adults because I already see that it's somewhat difficult to find shots of real adults and a little more easy to find sub-adults. an adult is preferable but sub-adult is also acceptable.
3: it has to be a good quality side shot of the discus. no blurry pictures please because ultimately what we want is just one picture of each strain so that they do not keep repeating. i'm not sure if there would be a way to edit a picture out for a better quality one that better depicts that specific strain.
4: when adding a picture only include the actual picture and the name of the strain, THAT'S ALL! my goal is to just be able to scroll through the whole thread just looking at pictures with the strain name. i'm aware that there might be controversy on certain strains and the description of it but we will deal with that bridge when we get there.
5: Has to be a healthy, non-stunted and good colored discus
6: lastly, if you do plan on posting a picture please go through the thread and make sure it has not been posted already please. if you think you have a better picture then please PM me and we will try to post that one over the one that is already there.
I might be over-looking a lot of things here but this thread is meant to be more Fun than anything else. i love seeing pictures and new members would benefit from this because they might not have known there were so many strains out there to chose from . I'll start it off with the pictures from Walter's Discus Aquarium of Natural/Wild Species. I really hope he doesn't mind but here's the link to show the original site: http://www.aquariumhobbyist.com/disc...ins/index.html
I know i said no wilds but this is just to show where everything came from
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Symphysodon Discus Heckel
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Symphysodon Aequifasciatus Axelrodi
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Symphysodon Aequifasciatus Aequifasciatus
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Symphysodon Aequifasciatus Haraldi
P.S. you can download king kong image capture here for free:
http://www.kingkongcapture.com/
this is for the members who do not have a snippet tool to copy a picture that they may come across to post here. download the image capture on that link and then you can crop anything that is physically in your screen at that moment. crop just the discus you will post.
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-10-2009 at 02:00 AM.
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Turquoise which i believe is a Blue Turquoise. Courtesy of Rod
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-10-2009 at 01:45 AM.
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Blue Knight
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-10-2009 at 11:42 AM.
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Super Angel Diamond
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-10-2009 at 11:35 AM.
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Marlborough Red
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-10-2009 at 11:41 AM.
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Violet Reflection courtesy of big_blue_discus
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Blue Diamond
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Shooting Star created by Mr. Wayne Ng (thanks Walter)
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-11-2009 at 01:46 AM.
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Leopard Snakeskin
Here is good reference that has been quoted often in regards to different strain info:
http://www.aquariumhobbyist.com/disc...ins/index.html
cobalt
checkerboard pigeon
leopard snakeskin
The fish in that photo is actually a "Shooting Star" created by Wayne Ng. Identified on page 46 of his Discus Guidebook.
I think it's important to make sure beginner's know that not all leopard snakeskin strains are "Penang Eruptions" <--- that is a specific leopard snakeskin created by Lim Pei Hao.
http://www.fishtradezone.com/index.p...iewDoc&docId=5
I'm seeing a few posts where people are automatically calling any leopard snakeskin fish a "Penang Eruption" and that's not fair to either Mr. Lim Pei Hao or whoever else created a specific leopard snakeskin type of fish, be it Wayne Ng or anyone else.
Hope that helps clear things up!
Walter
Walter
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Flachen courtesy of the man himself, Hans (thx for the approval )
Last edited by rickztahone; 05-13-2009 at 02:53 AM.
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