My discus tank - new look re-scape
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Any suggestions then, on what I should feed them to maintain the paler yellow ?
Although I am keeping in mind that this strain is called 'golden' - not yellow, and they do have a deeper yellow coloration in the finnage - some may call it orange, but it's not an undesirable coloration imo.
isn't Tetra one of the lower quality foods anyway? i won't feed tetra brand food to my fish.
ah, just did a little reading and it seems a lot of discus keepers use tetra foods. why? when it is such a low quality fish food, and you are feeding such expensive and beautiful fish?
ah, just did a little reading and it seems a lot of discus keepers use tetra foods. why? when it is such a low quality fish food, and you are feeding such expensive and beautiful fish?
I've kept discus for many years and feed a variety of foods, including freeze-dried blackworms, frozen bloodworms, frozen mysis and brine shrimp, frozen krill, spirulina, bio-gold discus pellets, Omega and other quality flakes, as well the Tetra Color and Tetramin products. I have regularly grown out many discus from under 3" to over 6" to 7".
And I have not ever read or heard of Tetra food products being lower quality fish foods. The ingredient listings set out in their labels indicate a wide variety of beneficial foodstuffs and vitamins, and my discus literally go wild over the tropical granules and crisps in particular.
I'm not surprised that many discus-keepers feed their fish these products. In fact, it was 2 reputable discus breeders who put me on to them.
when i've compared tetra foods to other brands, like omega (for example), the list of fillers and other grain based products in the tetra foods are much higher up in the list and with greater abundance than with other foods (like omega). IMO these fillers make for cheap food that isn't so great for fish. they are fish, not cows that eat grain. lol.
i am in no way saying omega is the best food, that is just one that i am using as an example. i feed mostly omega and nls to my fish, along with occasional frozen bloodworms, silversides (for the big fish), and algae wafers and zucchini.
i have in the past fed the tetra crisps to my fish in addition to the frozen foods, algae wafers and zucchini, but found with their current diet listed above, with omega and nls as their 'dry foods', they are much more active and generally look much healthier than before. i still have some of the same fish that were fed on tetra in the past, so it is a true comparison in my own tanks, not just comparing fish A on diet A to fish B on diet B.
while i have never kept discus, i would imagine that fish health related to diet is the same across the board, and discus are no different, eh?
i am in no way saying omega is the best food, that is just one that i am using as an example. i feed mostly omega and nls to my fish, along with occasional frozen bloodworms, silversides (for the big fish), and algae wafers and zucchini.
i have in the past fed the tetra crisps to my fish in addition to the frozen foods, algae wafers and zucchini, but found with their current diet listed above, with omega and nls as their 'dry foods', they are much more active and generally look much healthier than before. i still have some of the same fish that were fed on tetra in the past, so it is a true comparison in my own tanks, not just comparing fish A on diet A to fish B on diet B.
while i have never kept discus, i would imagine that fish health related to diet is the same across the board, and discus are no different, eh?
Interesting. Well, I suppose a most beneficial diet depends on the type of fish you are keeping- and whether they are herbivores or omnivores.
Based on my experiences, I believe that discus do well on a high protein coupled with a high fiber diet, and the grain-based products seem to provide the latter, if that's what the Tetra products provide. And I don't agree that these so-called 'fillers' amount to 'cheap' food.
I too feed Omega & NLS products,as well as foods like algae wafers, but I can't avoid feeling there is benefit to the Tetra products, judging by the feeding-frenzied enthusiam that my discus show for the Tetra granules and Crisps, and the resulting health and growth.
As for fish health related to diet, I'll stick with the obvious results I get from growing out my discus.
If we agree to disagree, then you keep doing what works best for you, and I'll keep doing what seems to work best for me. Okay ? LOL
Based on my experiences, I believe that discus do well on a high protein coupled with a high fiber diet, and the grain-based products seem to provide the latter, if that's what the Tetra products provide. And I don't agree that these so-called 'fillers' amount to 'cheap' food.
I too feed Omega & NLS products,as well as foods like algae wafers, but I can't avoid feeling there is benefit to the Tetra products, judging by the feeding-frenzied enthusiam that my discus show for the Tetra granules and Crisps, and the resulting health and growth.
As for fish health related to diet, I'll stick with the obvious results I get from growing out my discus.
If we agree to disagree, then you keep doing what works best for you, and I'll keep doing what seems to work best for me. Okay ? LOL
Angels Plus sells a wide variety of good quality foods (and in bulk). You should try them out sometime. http://www.angelsplus.com/Foods.htm
but it's the discussion and disagreement that makes this forum so interesting! lol.
