My Discus has a CUT!
- Thread starter Hungriee
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Wow. they are awesome looking.
Today my discus are starting to come out and swim from their hideouts but I've noticed they are very slow eaters; each time I'm feeding; the cardinals race to steal the food. Good thing is the uneaten food, is a feast for the cory cats.
The cut is slowly healing, but my discus are scared of light. When I turn on the light, they hide right away. Then they turn a tint of black; they're still blue but you can notice they are a little black and can see their bars a bit. They are probably stressed, but is there a way I can acclimate them to light? I try to turning it on 2-3 hours a day so they can get use to it, but still not working.
I'm keeping up with my 20% wc daily, hopefully they'll be happier.
Today my discus are starting to come out and swim from their hideouts but I've noticed they are very slow eaters; each time I'm feeding; the cardinals race to steal the food. Good thing is the uneaten food, is a feast for the cory cats.
The cut is slowly healing, but my discus are scared of light. When I turn on the light, they hide right away. Then they turn a tint of black; they're still blue but you can notice they are a little black and can see their bars a bit. They are probably stressed, but is there a way I can acclimate them to light? I try to turning it on 2-3 hours a day so they can get use to it, but still not working.
I'm keeping up with my 20% wc daily, hopefully they'll be happier.
If you take your fish from darkness to light, they will always dart away frightened and hide and get a bit dark showing stress. They are basically being blinded by the light and need time to accustom to it. Because discus are known to be tank darters when startled by sudden light, I have my lights on a timer and time to come on after the daylight lightens the room and they start moving around in the tank....so...during the summer season here that equates to 8:00 AM for my tank. My suggestion for you would be to do the same thing, invest in a timer. They are inexpensive. Discus have been known to knock themselves dead by darting across the tank out of fright and banging into the other side. When I have young discus that need to be fed before I leave for work in the morning, I get around the darkness/light issue by installing a dimmer switch on my dining room light where the tanks are. I slowly, over a period of maybe half an hour, bring the light in the room up from very dim to normal, they have adjusted from dark to some room light by this time and I can safely turn on the tank lights without them fleeing in fright. Hope this helps.
Hey Pinkertd & Redscare, all:
What kind of food do you feed your discus? I want my discus to get fat! So far, I tried bloodworms (they liked but they eat too slow and my cories end up eating them all), tropical granules (my cardinals eat this and the discus only gets scraps); and mysis shrimp which the discus totally loses out and it makes the water a little cloudy. Overall, all the foods I tried, the discus eats but very slowly and usually loses out to the cardinals or cories I have in the tank.
Whats the best method & food to feeding discus?
What kind of food do you feed your discus? I want my discus to get fat! So far, I tried bloodworms (they liked but they eat too slow and my cories end up eating them all), tropical granules (my cardinals eat this and the discus only gets scraps); and mysis shrimp which the discus totally loses out and it makes the water a little cloudy. Overall, all the foods I tried, the discus eats but very slowly and usually loses out to the cardinals or cories I have in the tank.
Whats the best method & food to feeding discus?
