Discus Eating

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Sun Devil

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Off and on over the years, I've kept several discus, but I've never seen what I saw this morning. I have three newish (to me) discus who share a tank with a few other tankmates - some tetras, corys, and two angels. In the past I've always fed my discus the usual suspects - tetra bits, frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms, sometimes live blackworms, etc. In all my experience, which is probably limited compared to some of the rest of you, I've never had discus who were even remotely interested in generic flake food. This morning I dropped some Omega One flakes into the tank to give the little guys something to munch on while the bigger guys were busy with their normal meal. My discus greedily vacuumed the flakes up as well.

I think it's pretty cool, but I'm still kind of surprised. Do others of you experienced discus keepers have flake-eating discus?
 
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1boatnut

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I am new to Discus,but mine eat flake too !
Actually more than the other foods you mentioned
 
KingOfTheDeep

KingOfTheDeep

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in the four times i've kept them, they ate flake food more than anything else

they wouldnt touch any type of pellet, or "bits"
 
Star_Rider

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most of mine prefer the foos to drop just below the surface..except they will attack the spoon above the surface..I use a spoon to distribute brine shrim,bloodworms,sinking pellet mix ..the largest discus will slap the spoon knocking the food into the tank.

he will also eat flake at the top.

was this one of the discus you got from Ken?
 
reptileguy2727

reptileguy2727

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Mine and the ones at my work go crazy for New Life Spectrum Discus, the best brand of food out there. That's the only thing they get.
 
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now my discus dont care for flakes and i also have two that wont touch pellets at all but the new life spectrum discus pellets have had a dramatic color enhancement on my other discus that will eat them greedily...i feel that a varied diet is the best for any discus though
 
reptileguy2727

reptileguy2727

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That used to be true, but NLS is truly complete and the best results are achieved when it is the only thing fed, which tells me that feeding them anything else is diluting the nutrition in the NLS.
 
Star_Rider

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I also vary the diet.

I believe that fish , like most lifeforms need variety..
 
reptileguy2727

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They need the best nutrition available. That used to mean a varied diet, but New Life Spectrum has put everything they need into one pellet. It may be hard to believe but if you try you should be pleasantly surprised. Just go to nlpublish.com and check out the testimonials section and see the results that people are getting, fresh or salt this food is a jump above others.
 
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