My New Stendker Discus Have Arrived!

This past year I pulled all but a few plants out of my discus tank and changed the substrate from fluorite to white pool filter sand. I'm so glad I did. Along with being much easier to clean I get the added benefit of watching the new feeding behavior. Now the discus blow little puffs of water into the sand to expose food...so cool.

Mark
 
nice fish, man! a few years ago, when I moved my discus, I simply filled the new tank with water, got the temp up to match the tank they were in, took the filter from the tank they were in and put it on the new tank (along with, of course, the new filter system I had with the new tank, which was bigger), and then I just netted them from the old tank, and plopped them right into the new tank. the old filter seeded the tank, so there was minimum cycle... I watched closely, and stayed on my usual water change schedule... no problems at all when I did it that way.

whatever way you go with, good luck!

-Rich
 
no problem... I would also say that anything you can take from the old tank... wood... plants... whatever... that you can add into the new tank, can only help. espeically anything like wood or even take a stocking, and fill it with some of the gravel from the old tank, and just sit in the new tank for a while. it will help the mini cycle happen even faster. just fyi. then, once everything is stable, just remove it!

your discus should be fine... they are tougher than people think... ESPECIALLY those Stendhkers... imo, the most bulletproof discus available anywhere!

-Rich
 
All of their wood and the anubias is moving over with them. Some of the other fish will be moving with the discus, but I am going to try and get some fry from my 4 rams. They spawn all of the time but everything gets eaten. One of my bn plecos will be moving to a different tank as well, so the bioload will be less. I am planning on daily 25% H2O changes anyway just to make sure.
 
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