haven't seen these in a while...
WC actual blue acara's ( not electric blue )
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fishorama
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We had them years ago & loved them. Pretty mellow for CA cichlids & bred every 30 days. Oops, hard to sell or even give them away after a while. I think they are more attractive than "electric" blues.
Hands down, that's my favourite blue acara. I don't like the modified ones very much, and that's a subtler, prettier fish.
I saw a thing from Webster's dictionary about retronyms - phrases that backdate things. All cameras had film and were called cameras, but with digital, suddenly the old ones are called film cameras. We have lots of things like that. All guitars were once acoustic, and were called guitars, but with the invention of the electric, we invented the name acoustic guitar. Landline phones, desktop computers...
So what do we call fish that make an appearance as natural fish, but have been replaced in the trade by genetically modified or linebred forms? In this case, is it the 'real' blue acara?
Wild form Pristella tetras have come back after not being in my region for a long time - we had the glo version, blushing versions, albinos and such for a decade. With a number of fish, the wild forms are very hard to find and have been replaced by the man made types. So much for learning about nature through the hobby.
I'm happy to call the real blue acara Andinoacara pulcher, and the possibly gene spliced version the electric blue acara. A whole pile of fish appeared together around the same time with that electric blue sheen, all supposedly linebred. It's an odd coincidence I've questioned, and I've wondered if the linebreeding story is a get around for the EU laws against marketing GMOed fish...
I saw a thing from Webster's dictionary about retronyms - phrases that backdate things. All cameras had film and were called cameras, but with digital, suddenly the old ones are called film cameras. We have lots of things like that. All guitars were once acoustic, and were called guitars, but with the invention of the electric, we invented the name acoustic guitar. Landline phones, desktop computers...
So what do we call fish that make an appearance as natural fish, but have been replaced in the trade by genetically modified or linebred forms? In this case, is it the 'real' blue acara?
Wild form Pristella tetras have come back after not being in my region for a long time - we had the glo version, blushing versions, albinos and such for a decade. With a number of fish, the wild forms are very hard to find and have been replaced by the man made types. So much for learning about nature through the hobby.
I'm happy to call the real blue acara Andinoacara pulcher, and the possibly gene spliced version the electric blue acara. A whole pile of fish appeared together around the same time with that electric blue sheen, all supposedly linebred. It's an odd coincidence I've questioned, and I've wondered if the linebreeding story is a get around for the EU laws against marketing GMOed fish...
Add to that conundrum, there are at least two other Andinoacara species that come in and get the tag "Blue Acara"and some are even identified as A. pulcher but are not. A. latifrons for example.
And I prefer all of them over the man-made form.
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