My Alenquer

[Xtreme]

Hi All,
Heres a pic of my alenquer,what do you think of it so far:

[Xtreme]

another shot

[Robdog]

I saw that little guy in the flesh the other day. A little arrow shaped but that could be due to his size and youth more than anything. Hopefully he'll fill out nicely because his colours are really nice and the photo doesn't really show that.

[the german]

good shape niccw fins and good size of the eye in relation to the body.
coulors a very light is it an albino?

[mcloughlin2]

good shape niccw fins and good size of the eye in relation to the body.
coulors a very light is it an albino?

Albino's have a red eye matey. :wink:

[the german]

interesting,hm (think) hm
then he is not very colourfull i reckon not much red
i think thats more like it

[the german]

here one more pic

[mcloughlin2]

the german,

Your discus is a snakeskin. :wink: Not a alenquer. :)

[Xtreme]

heres another pic of the fish:

[scott bowler]

wayne that is a very nice fish it has good shape . eye is good size and the colour is coming along very nicely . i think i have two just like that from the same batch and there colour is out . inpresive fish

[the german]

snakeskin :D because it have 11 bars.........
for me a snakeskin have to look like a snakeskin and not
only have 11 bars

[samir]

snakeskin :D because it have 11 bars.........
for me a snakeskin have to look like a snakeskin and not
only have 11 bars

i can count at least 14 bars on it :wink: you can call it what you want, its still a snakeskin :P :lol: If its here for a "co-critique" then imo its a very average fish, shape's pretty bad and the bars are not uniform. If I had bred that fish it would end up culled or used for testing new medication.

The Alencer from Xtreme is of much better quality, though imo still an average fish.
here's an Alencer that imo is of very good quality.

[the german]

thats a nice fish samir.

but why would you kill a fish for his bars when hes not even 7 month old?

[samir]

you can't kill him now, he's become a pet :P

[Squid]

Alenqers are close to my heart. They are my favourite wild strain. now Extremes Alenquer is young, but will colour-up with age. I reckon you've got a good fish there. A good idea to get better colouration is to get it out of the blue tank set-up. I've got some good photos of how much this can change their colouration. And also, females tend to have deeper red colouration. Heres a couple of photos of some young Alenquers and what they grew up into (with only a basic Oxheart/discus dinner diet).

Squid

[Squid]

Alenqers are close to my heart. They are my favourite wild strain. now Extremes Alenquer is young, but will colour-up with age. I reckon you've got a good fish there. A good idea to get better colouration is to get it out of the blue tank set-up. I've got some good photos of how much this can change their colouration. And also, females tend to have deeper red colouration. Heres a couple of photos of some young Alenquers and what they grew up into (with only a basic Oxheart/discus dinner diet).

Squid

[the german]

that are very nice fish squid.