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A. Agassizi Fire Red

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dw1305

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Hi all,
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a "Wild Form" of Aggie fire reds
There are forms with red backs, but I assume that the "Fire Reds" are a leucistic/xanthistic mutation which had been fixed by breeding. They look extremely strange looking in the flesh, and you can't imagine them lasting in the wild.

cheers Darrel
 

Mike Wise

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There is no "Wild Form" of Fire-red A. agassizii. It is a domestic form developed from several different populations of wild and domestic populations/forms/species of the A. agassizii superspecies. One of them was probably A. cf. agassizii Santarem Rotrücken/Red-back. It is a form that has little body color, other than a red band below the dorsal fin. This population was discovered about a year before the fire red was developed. It was probably crossed with one of the 'super-red' domestic strains to develop the first Fire-red Agassizii strains. These have been improved over the years.
 

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