Harald Schultz and then embarked on three collecting expeditions to the Rio Amazonas basin in the 1960s. 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. In all his letters to me he mentioned almost nothing about them except he once wrote that about half of the siblings mature to have stripes on a reddish brown body and the discus on the cover of the February, 1967 issue of TFH is the best male of the group. The precious "Blue Discus" offspring are given away to friends. The doctor unfortunately has to stop with the discus very soon afterwards. It takes more than a year for the first brood of 20 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. The third fish is a Rio Abacaxis Heckel.ĭr. Both sexes have a trace of Heckel Bar which is stronger in the female. Schultz (1) 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 friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Schmidt-Focke received three wild discus from Dr. Schmidt-Focke's "Blue Discus" Offspring: The World's First Red Turquoise Turquoise discus is a name reserved exclusively for hybrids.ĭr. Although there is a type of wild discus with full body striation on a brown to reddish brown body known in the discus trade as Royal Blue, however, we do not call them as turquoise discus. Hence, a discus having a solid turquoise body is called Brilliant Turquoise a specimen with red body and turquoise stripes-Red Turquoise or one that possesses a central dark bar-Heckel Turquoise. The term turquoise discus has been widely used to describe a discus with horizontal greenish blue stripes from head to tail ever since the name was created by Jack Wattley 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 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 because 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 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 30 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. West Germany and the USA were the two most active countries. Hybridization of discus began in the early 1960s.
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