BRAZIL: Discusfishes from Nhamundà. Part 1

By Heiko Bleher

Heiko Bleher, discoverer of many new discus morphs (and so many other tropical fish species over the last 40 years and more) tells us about his adventure journey to the remote Nhamundá River, a northern Amazon affluent in Brazil, and the discovery of a formerly unknown, almost solid blue Heckel-discus (Symphysodon discus) colour morph. He also talks about about his discovery of rare discus variants in the Lake Nhamundá, which are completely different from those living in the river…

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