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[golden_dase]

I've noticed that there's an increasing interest in Discus at PCS lately... one of my favourite fish!

Anyways, to help people realise the beauty of these fish and the different colours/varieties available, i've found 2 very good sites which shows you images and common names of different varieties/strains of Discus:

http://www.rockymoun...com/Gallery.htm

http://www.macsdiscus.com/images.html


Enjoy!

Kevin.

[Scat]

How many of these strains are actually available in Australia though ?

Some very nice discus

Craig

[golden_dase]

I've seen about 10 different strains in Perth so far..
When I was in Melbourne, i saw about 15 strains.

By the way, I was at Malaga Aquariums today and they had about 6 different Discus tanks with different strains..
Another good LFS for Discus is my mate Gavin, owner of Aquarium City!

Can't wait till i set up my Discus tanks (yes, TANKS! - meaning more than 1 Discus tank! )... getting back to it after so many years...

[Scat]

What strains were in Malaga ?

Cheers
Craig

[golden_dase]

I saw some red malboros, pigeons, and blue/turqoise...and 1 or 2 strains which i cant place a name!
There's so many different Discus strains/hybrids these days, that it is hard to keep track/classify them all!

[Scat]

Some nice strains !

Terry has a group of spectacular wild caught discus which i saw a few weeks ago,which was made me start thinking about discus ( then saw Dave76`s discus a few weeks later also !)

Will be interesting to see what is available now im learning what the strains are.

Cheers
Craig

[lilfish]

I have a red malboro on hold at malaga at the moment (its the one in a tank on its own) cant wait until i can pick it up (not yet released from shop quarantine) The blue pigeon bloods look nice too, might pick up one of those when they colour up a bit more.

[Peckoltia]

Malaga also has some nice whites, red melons and some nice german strains from memory.

Not much of a discus fan. But some stunning fish!

[*S*T*A*R*S*]

the ones i have seen are

checker board
snakeskin
wild hekle
blue turquise ( spelling wrong i know)
and a few others i cant remember!!!

i dont know if these are strains because i dont know what they are but yeah

Arron