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Page 1 of 2  REPORT FROM DUISBURG 2008
Premises were not the best: when we arrived in Duisburg at the Landschaftspark about at 12:30 on Tuesday, I went to the reception of fishes for competition and I spoke with the person in charge. He checked his membership list to assign us tanks but ...… there was not our name!!! So I showed him the copy of the registration form and he, first watched me and then said “ I’m sorry but all tanks are busy”. In that moment I had a lot of worry in my head: “I have 5 discus and I am 890 Km away from home what I can do now?” ... “ Where do I put them?”... “I have to come back to Lainate?” I started to get angry.... Luckily a few days earlier I had just spoken with that man and he confirmed me that the inscription was arrived and that everything was ok. For that reason he immediately tried a place also for our fishes: the difficult was to combine any vacancies with the categories of fishes. He was able to find 3 vacancies: one for the Pigeon, one for the Red Turquoise and one for the Red Melon. For the other fishes, two White & Red Leopard, we had to wait until 6 p.m., hoping that someone would not arrive to the championship. After a fast dinner and after being in the hotel, Marco and me came back to the exhibition were, luckily, the person in charge told us that had freed two places and so we were able to put the other two fishes in tanks... mission possible!!! Now, I was more comfortable and I could do a tour of the tanks. I noted that the quality of discus was higher than that of the last two editions especially the quality of breeded discus. Generally Stripe Turquoise were beautiful, I appreciated very much a Snake Skin Blue with a perfect shape and with the ruby eye (a very difficult feature of this variety). The beautiful Snake Skin Blue
Solid Turquoise were not very much in the competition, and this fact show a lower quality in breeding of these varieties in the recent years (who does not remember, however, the fantastic Blue Diamond who won the Best in Show three editions ago?). .jpg "1SolidTurquoise") Red Turquoise were all of good quality, but this is normal because Germany is the motherland of this variety! .jpg "3-RT-(foto-3)") Red Turquoise third place
My favorite category was that of Red: fishes of Yang were very beautiful.
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I spent a lot of time in front of tank n° 210 and I appreciated this beautiful fish with perfect shape, eye and fins, and with a colour intensity that I newer had seen before. Scales were very small, this gives to the fish a red velvet effect that really impressed me: in my opinion this was the most beautiful fish in the competition.
.jpg "1-Red-(foto-4)") This is the discus that impressed me the most
The Open Solid Class, was specifically introduced in order to win an Albino Blue Diamond (and so it happened!!!) it don’t impressed me very much. .jpg "BD-Albino-(foto7)") Blue Diamond albino are very popular in Asia but I don’t like them so much
In Open Stripped-Spotted category there are a lot of fishes: 57 exemplaries that are very interesting to estimate for their future cross. The Snake Skin Golden Spotted (third place) is very beautiful: his pattern is made up of very small spot that never come together in lines. .jpg "3Open-Spotted-(foto8)") Is fantastic the spotted pattern of this fish! Ring Leopard has a beautiful pattern with a very clear contrast of colours: it is very difficult to obtain this variety, in fact, maybe, this is the only real Ring in all the competition, and so, even if it has not a perfect eye and a right size, it won the award for Best in the Show.
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