Feeding them Beef heart, frozen bloodworms, frozen Daphnia and occaisionally, some flake. I have tonight moved them both into a breding tank, will keep you posted on any developments, and, fingers crossed, will post pics of any fry.
My Discus
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Great looking fish Yo, one day I hope to keep Discus when I'm more experienced in the hobby!:drool:
yogias i have discus and i can say that mine dont look as beautiful as these do!tell us your secrets....what are you feeding them,water readings,water used,ect.,ect.,ect.,please share with us other peoples!thanks and a few more pics wouldnt hurt either!
Well i can honestly say, hand on heart, that I have no secrets! I use an AquaOne CF1000 external filter. I also have a sponge filter in there. The tank temp is 86 degrees. I do a partial water change maybe every two weeks. The PH is 6.5. It is a planted tank, which they appear to love, always in and out of the Amazon swords. I have Malaysian Trumpet snails in there for my clean up crew. I don't use RO. I don't do anything special. I wormed them about a month ago, andthats about it. I have said what I feed them and can't think of anything else!
When I set the tank up, I wanted to try to re-create their natural Amazonian habitat, using a sand substrate, using native plants and making sure thet the PH was correct, even if it meant having a black water tank(the colour is like cold tea!). I use a twin bulb lighting unit (mainly for plant growth) and have moonlight bulbs for night time.
I have been keeping Discus since the very start of my fish keeping time, and yes, I have had a couple of fatalities. I get the odd spot of swimbladder problem, but use Interpet Swimbladder treatment as soon as i spot it and this does the trick.
My larger fish are very shy, with the smaller ones being first to the food. I have a very good friend who used to run a LFS and when I have panicked about water conditions ( cloudy, etc) he told me just to leave it and it will settle down. He has been right every time I have needed advice, Thanks Sean!
All I can say is don't fuss them too much. My tank pretty much has a perfect cycle and I rarely have to do anything with it.
The ones in the breeding tank have started to show signs of lurrvve and I will keep you posted(with pics) of any fry.
Hope I have helped!
hi yogias.yes you have helped alot-plants must be something very benificial to them for im doing everything else the same as you and still yours look better(mine dont look bad but...)i never put the plants because they say you have to have co2 and high lighting- do you do that?i have the regular lights that came on my 55 gal-are these good enough for the plants?if you can help that would be great and im also wating on those fry pics!!(plan on selling any?)let us know!
hi yogias.yes you have helped alot-plants must be something very benificial to them for im doing everything else the same as you and still yours look better(mine dont look bad but...)i never put the plants because they say you have to have co2 and high lighting- do you do that?i have the regular lights that came on my 55 gal-are these good enough for the plants?if you can help that would be great and im also wating on those fry pics!!(plan on selling any?)let us know!
I keep mine in a planted tank to..but I plan on reducing the light to 1.5-2 wpg(it's a 75) and keep the pressurized CO2.
many of the plants will do fine with a lower light set up with co2.
