Pigeon Checkerboard
Symphysodon sp.
Description
The Pigeon Checkerboard combines the Pigeon Blood base with a unique checkerboard pattern, created by the alternation of pigmented areas with lighter ones.
🌍 Origin & History
A variety derived from Pigeon Blood featuring a special checkerboard pattern — alternating light and dark spots. Created in specialized Asian breeders.
Appearance
Orange-yellow body with a checkerboard pattern: regularly distributed alternating light and dark zones. Black pepper on the snout. No vertical bars. Red eyes.
🧬 Genetic background
Pigeon Blood × Checkerboard pattern discus. The checkerboard pattern is generated by a complex combination of pigmentation genes that alternate colored zones with depigmented ones.
Recommended water parameters
Care
Care is similar to that of Pigeon Blood.
Breeding
The checkerboard pattern is genetically unstable, with fry varying greatly.
💡 Practical tips
- →The pattern is clearest in direct light
- →Select symmetric-patterned parents for the best offspring
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