some of my discus

[Saturn]

hello all i am new and thought I would share some pics. I was told that the larger one is a chocolate red? but i am not sure. and i need help with the other one. so please help me identify this little guy thanks in advance

[Merrilyn]

Hi Saturn, beautiful background you have in that tank. I was going to say the little guy looks like a marlboro red, then I noticed the bars, so he can't be that. Think we might get our resident expert to cast an eye over that one. "Kev, where are you"

[Saturn]

Thanks ladyred, the little one has more of an orange color but it is hard to see in those horrible pics. If i only owned my own camera i could wait until better pics could be taken. I appreciate the help

[DiscusD]

[quote="ladyred"]I was going to say the little guy looks like a marlboro red, then I noticed the bars, so he can't be that.quote]

Wait...marlboros don't have any bars? I thought they could and did due to their pigeon blood?

[kevkoi]

Well, good quality pigeon bloods are suppose to have orange bars and they should not be evident on the fish.... However, it's a quality issue.

looks to me like a pigeon discus of some sort.

[Saturn]

thank you all, i will try to get better pictures of them later. As for the so called chocolate red is that the correct name?

[Merrilyn]

Well this one sent me off to the reference books again. I am going to refer to Dr. Eduard Schmidt-Focke who calls this the Brown Discus.

Brown discus were all we could get thirty years ago when I started with discus, and this little guy sure looks like the first discus I had.

[Saturn]

Thank You Ladyred. I havent seen any other photos of the brown one so I was unable to verify the name.