My Discus after 1 week

Beautiful dicus Francis! I'm lucky Kenny's fish are very healthy and are always very hungry! Kenny warned me about them :) My biggest concern right now is too not over feed them. Everytime I get near the tank they always think its feeding time.

msjinkzed congrats on your purchase! My discus are not that finicky eaters.. They take in wardley's shrimp pellets, tetra colorbits (i soak them in a little water befroe i give it to them) and the Omega one flakes.

I also supplement them with DIY beef heart fish food with recipies I got from this forum and simplydiscus which i just tailored to things i had available to me at the time I made it. Also Hikari frozen blood worms, and frozen turkey hearts.

I hade to make my own food just to save up on the costs of purchasing the frozen beef heart and bloodworms from the LFS. $5 per pack every week sure does pile up in the long run. :)
 
My discus never seemed to want to eat tetra colorbits so for a pellet I do New Life Spectrum discus pellets. They are nice and small, the discus blow them out of the gravel, it's funny to watch. They will eat shrimp pellets that I throw in for the cories too. For flakes, they love Ocean Nutrition Brine Shrimp Plus flake (their favorite) which is made up of salmon fillets, plankton, adult brine shrimp, squid, salmon eggs, krill, sea clams, naupli and kelp, it's an excellent flake food; and Ocean Nutrition Formula One Flakes which is salmon fillets, plankton, squid, tuna eggs, seal kelp, adult brine shrimp, and naupili. They get frozen bloodworms daily and live white worms 2 to 3 times a week. They go crazy over the white worms! They just play around with beefheart and preferred the frozen bloodworms so I stopped trying to get them to eat beefheart. All it did was cause me more tank cleaning. They are hungriest when I first get home from work and that is when they get a mix of flakes and pellets. Those young blue cobalts I have still refuse to touch flake or pellets!
 
I feed my discus a combination of frozen foods(all by Hikari for the added safety and vitamins) as well as Hikari Discus-Bio Gold. Bio-gold is by far the best pellet available for discus(you can tell this by which ingredients are the primary ones). However, it is pricey, which is why I alternate with frozen foods.
 
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