![]() ![]() He told me he obtained information from Dr. In September, 1983 I asked Jack about this strain when he was visiting me in Hong Kong. A review of the pompadour or discus fishes, genus Symphysodon of South America. Schmidt-Focke wrote a detailed report in an article, entitled: "The Care and Breeding of the Blue Discus", that was published in the September 1961 issue of TFH. The fish is a Heckel Red Turquoise in today's terminology.ĭr. It has a deep reddish brown body with turquoise blue stripes and the Heckel Bar. The best F1 generation male from this pair appears on the cover of the February, 1967 issue of Tropical Fish Hobbyist. About half of them mature to have stripes on a reddish brown body. The precious "Blue Discus" offspring are given away to friends. Unfortunately, the doctor has to stop with the discus very soon afterwards. It takes more than a year for the first brood of twenty fry to be produced. Many times per day, the pair is fed with live foods such as daphnia, well washed tubifex, bloodworms, mosquito larvae, glass worms and white worms. ![]() They are kept in a big tank filled with soft water specially collected from springs in the Taunus mountain. Schmidt-Focke provides the "Blue Discus" pair with the very best care. Both rivers are tributaries of the Rio Madeira which are located not far away from Manaus.ĭr. Judged by their appearances, these should be discus from the Rio Marimari or Rio Abacaxis. Harald Schultz never told the doctor where he caught the three specimens. Both sexes have a trace of Heckel Bar which is stronger in the female. Schultz (1) and so the pair was called "Blue Discus" by the doctor. This male fits the morphology of Blue Discus as described in the 1960 classification by Dr. The male only has stripes on the anterior half of the body and also on the dorsal, anal, pelvic fins. The female of the pair is fully striated with turquoise blue stripes. Harald Schultz (a Brazilian anthropologist from Sao Paulo, Brazil) in late 1959. Schmidt-Focke received three wild discus from Dr. ![]() Schmidt-Focke's "Blue Discus" Offspring-The World's First Red Turquoiseĭr. Turquoise discus is a name reserved exclusively for hybrids.ĭr. RED TURQUOISE DISCUS FULLAlthough there is a type of wild discus with full body striation on a brown to reddish brown body that is known in the discus trade as Royal Blue but we do not call the red body Royal Blue as Red Turquoise. The term Red Turquoise has been widely used to describe a hybrid discus which has a red body with horizontal stripes from head to tail ever since the name turquoise discus was created in 1969. A detailed discussion of these important pioneer red strains is necessary for readers, especially the younger generation, to understand the history of Red Turquoise. Red Royal Blue (RRB) appeared in the USA market in the early 1970s. The second is the Schmidt-Focke Red Turquoise produced in 1970. The world's first Red Turquoise strain is most probably the 1969 Wattley's Original Turquoise: the F1 generation could be created as early as in 1964. The first documented breeding of high quality striped discus was performed by Dr. Schmidt-Focke's "Blue Discus" Offspring Wattley's Original Turquoise Schmidt-Focke Red Turquoise Red Royal Blue (RRB) & Pigeon Blood Historically Important Hybrid Discus: Dr. Schmidt-Focke and Manfred Gobel's Giant Discus. Notable examples are: WB22 Blue Diamond, WW19LS Red Spotted Green Leopard Skin, WR14 Red Diamond and WR25 Tangerine Dream developed by WWFF Red Eddie bred by Dr. The best hybrids appeared after thirty years in the 1990s. Germany became the undisputed world leader since then. In February, 1976, the doctor introduced his Red Turquoise, the solid color Brilliant Turquoise and other exotic turquoise striped discus hybrids in his Tropical Fish Hobbyist (abbreviated as TFH) article that shocked the Americans. Nevertheless, Germany soon catched up under the leadership of Dr. Charles Wall's Cobalt Blue in the next year. Mack Galbreath launched his Powder Blue in 1971 followed by Dr. Wattley's Original Turquoise made its appearance in 1969. The Americans were actually ahead of the Germans in the beginning. USA and Germany (West Germany at the time) were the two most active countries. Hybridization of discus began in the early 1960s. ![]()
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