Blue acara

[emeraldking56 107]

The one stowaway I overlooked when I got rid of all the blue acaras is still growing up nicely.

 

[Magnum Man77 191]

it would be nice to know the actual lineage of those, before they magically appeared… I liked mine, but lost them after a tank crashed, and didn’t want to invest again when their heritage is blank..

 

[emeraldking56 107]

it would be nice to know the actual lineage of those, before they magically appeared… I liked mine, but lost them after a tank crashed, and didn’t want to invest again when their heritage is blank..

Sorry to hear that your tank crashed at that time. I do like the blue acaras better than the red ones. But at some point, I had too many of them. Once they start to breed, there's no ending of it... SO, I got rid of them all. But later on I'd noticed that one was still present. And I just let it be...

 

[GaryE37 35]

That looks like the possibly GMO electric blue. The story is it's a linebred mutation (as the sale of gene spliced fish is banned in many markets), but it hit the market right around when a bunch of electric blue fish from different families mysteriously appeared. I could never prove it came from a system similar to the glo-gene story, but the timing has always made me wonder.
Circumstantial evidence...
I've never heard of anyone bragging about creating these electric and powder blue morphs, and that ain't natural for fishkeepers.
The natural colour blue acara (Andinoacara pulcher) is a nice looking fish anyway. It doesn't harm the fish. Whether you go for these fish or natural ones is just what you like.