When is a heckel a heckel?

[DiscusNoob]

I just want to know when you classify your discus as a heckle?

I recently bought some juvi discus and I bought the some which had stress bars (black lines going vertically through the body) and the LFS said that these lines would fade away through time.

I just want to know if fish with stress bars are classified as heckles?

Do these stress bars fade away or completely go away through time?

DiscusNoob

[Merrilyn]

Depends what you mean by bars.

Lots of discus have bars through the body. Sometimes they go away, and sometimes they don't.

Heckels have a very dark stress bar through the middle of the body, much darker and wider than a normal stress bar. (there's one in my avatar)

But fish that have a heckel father and a non heckel mother will often show the heckel bar too, so it's really hard to tell.

[DiscusNoob]

Thanks for the reply.

Can you tell me if this discus will lose its bars?
and it's name? I forgot it :?

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m106/ThugAngel515/DSC00120.jpg

[mistakes r crucial]

Looks like an RSG to me and I doubt it will lose those bars and for mine they shouldn't either, adds character.
MAC

[mistakes r crucial]

What's the fish in the background, it looks unusual.
MAC

[DiscusNoob]

It's a albino cory something :D . I've had it for ages and its so huge now compared the the one in the LFS anyway :D

DiscusNoob

[mistakes r crucial]

LoL, I meant the other discus! Maybe it's just the pic but if that's a Corry it's the biggest brute I've ever seen. You sure your Council doesn't put 'roids in the water?
MAC

[DiscusNoob]

ROIDS! LOL! :lol: But when I come to think of it my BN is huge. Who knows hope it works on the discus to. :D For the blue discus i don't know what it is either. :? Though I got a picture.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m106/ThugAngel515/DSC00128.jpg

[JamezMan]

My Juvi discus have the same thing.

[mistakes r crucial]

It's a blue turq.
MAC

[DiscusNoob]

Thanks for the replies guys. :D