Thank you very much Heiko!Heiko Bleher wrote:Hi,
I am sorry to answer so late, but I did Interzoo 2008 – have a look ate http://www.aquapress-bleher.com and the Interzoo biotopes.
The fish from the mentioned site is NOT from the Nanay. It is a S. haraldi (blue-brown) from almost anywhere in its distribution (see my book – and I wonder that there is still a discus lover who does not have it...). As I mentioned in it: I found S. haraldi's with 8 up to 16 bars. That is found in several aras of their distribution and not limited to anyone to my knowledge. They mis constantly, and you have it also in the aquarium breeding variants. The so called "snake-skin" is a S. haraldi and can have also 10-16 bars.
Anyhow, those are not discus which are found in large quantities in nature, there are always some in between, as I have shown.
All the very best,
always
Heiko
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com
You give me very much new information in your wonderful book, but some time I wonder and in this issue you give me very good answer. I have been working with Discus since 1971, but you give me new information in your book I have been wonder for many years, very often in every pages. I have never sine a book about nature and animals like yours, you have given a big contribution to history and the description of a biotope how can be destroyed and disappeared in may be the next generation. Your book is a testament of the nature we know today with your knowledge’s. I inside me I crying when I think this stupid Humans working in Amazonas can destroy may be the garden of the Eden for the world and the humans . It is hard to think about this, but the interest for the Discus gives me this information. We need explores like you, thank very much for what you gives all of us.
Best wishes from Norway
Bjørn Johan Kirksæther