I have a 10 gallon QT tank that I'm putting my discus into before putting them in the 110 gallon. The LFS has pigeon blood that are 3-4" for $60.00 or 3 for $150.00 so I want to get 3. How many will fit in the 10 gallon? Should I only get 1 at a time? Will only 1 discus get lonely being by itself for a month? If I get one at a time, it'll take 3 months just to get 3 fish in the 110 gallon, but I don't want to do anything wrong. What are the thoughts?
How many discus will fit in a 10 gallon QT?
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I figure you can stack 20 in there at once!:grinyes:
On there serious side, I would do one at a time to keep the water healthy and to give it swimming room. Depending on the quality of your LFS you may want to consider a shorter QT.
I never QT from the lfs I do most of my business with as they take excellent care of the livestock nor do I purchase anything brand new/just arrived. I have them hold it for a couple of weeks first. They haven't lost fish and neither have I.
On there serious side, I would do one at a time to keep the water healthy and to give it swimming room. Depending on the quality of your LFS you may want to consider a shorter QT.
I never QT from the lfs I do most of my business with as they take excellent care of the livestock nor do I purchase anything brand new/just arrived. I have them hold it for a couple of weeks first. They haven't lost fish and neither have I.
It depends on if you stack them top to bottom or side to side
. I would think you could quarantine 3 at once if the tank has an established bio filter and you do 50% daily water changes. TFH had an article by Jack Watley awhile back where he visited a friend who kept a breeding pair in a 14 tall. As long as they are well fed and the water is good I dont see a problem.
can you get a biggeer QT? Like maybe a 20Long?
The reason being that it would be best to add the 3 discus to your show tank at the same time, rather than one at a time .. to avoid possible agression issues...
otherwise the first discus in the tank mya dry to dominate the others...
happenedin my 125.
The reason being that it would be best to add the 3 discus to your show tank at the same time, rather than one at a time .. to avoid possible agression issues...
otherwise the first discus in the tank mya dry to dominate the others...
happenedin my 125.
You don't say whether you have any other discus or not? what other fish are in the 110?
3 Discus is the worst possible number to keep you need 5 or more so that their aggression is spread around. 3 will quickly kill one then the 2 remaining will go at it till the other is dead.
You need to read up a little more on discus before you start keeping them.
3 Discus is the worst possible number to keep you need 5 or more so that their aggression is spread around. 3 will quickly kill one then the 2 remaining will go at it till the other is dead.
You need to read up a little more on discus before you start keeping them.
in a nutshell a 10 is too small for Discus even for a qt period. you will need a larger tank 29-40 Gal to house for qt.
i agree. if you're going to spend the money on discus, you might as well spend a little more on a good qt tank for them and do it right. one other thing is that if in the future something *bad* happens and you need to use a hospital tank to isolate a sick discus, a 10g definitely isn't going to cut it for a bigger fish or two. better to be prepared from the start than breaking the speed laws trying to get to petsmart before they close to pick up a larger spare tank. (because the worst fish emergencies always happen when all the stores are about the close. and i'm not kidding.)
I would pretty much double what everyone has said so far.
A 10 is way to small for one, especially alone for a month. use your 125 as the QT tank. Ask the store to hold them in a seperate tank, if your going to get 3 or more they might be willing todo this. Otherwise just take them home and put them in the 125.
Again it would be better to get 5-7 totally, for some reason i have heard that they do better in odd numbers above 3 rather than even ones.
A 10 is way to small for one, especially alone for a month. use your 125 as the QT tank. Ask the store to hold them in a seperate tank, if your going to get 3 or more they might be willing todo this. Otherwise just take them home and put them in the 125.
Again it would be better to get 5-7 totally, for some reason i have heard that they do better in odd numbers above 3 rather than even ones.
I had 3 discus in my 125 for about 3 weeks... the smallest was bullied by every other discus..
I added 2 more, and all was good.. you definately need more than 3.
I added 2 more, and all was good.. you definately need more than 3.