Hi all it’s been a while since I’ve posted & wanted to get your opinions.Hope everyone is doing ok during this covid pandemic. A few months ago I added 2 discus to my 36 gallon corner bow. The discus were smaller than the usual size & from what I read I think they were stunted.
They ate well
swam & chased around one another & got along with my other fish. I have tetras cherry barbs rainbow danio & cories. My water parameters were fine & I was doing 50% weekly water changes which I was told is essential to do for the discus & my other fish were tolerating the routine.
Unfortunately & I don’t know why but one of the discus died about 3 months ago I think it was a female & she was smaller than the other discus. There was no obvious sign of illness on the body so I assumed it was something internal she died from. I just bought another discus to replace the one that died & it’s in QT. My question is re: amount of water am changing out of 36 gallon weekly LFS employee told me 50% weekly is too much water that I could get away with doing 25% biweekly. What do you think? I just did a 25% Wc & gravel vac today & value opinions given in this forum. If I do 25% wc’s still do them weekly or biweekly? Thanks stay safe all.
They ate well
swam & chased around one another & got along with my other fish. I have tetras cherry barbs rainbow danio & cories. My water parameters were fine & I was doing 50% weekly water changes which I was told is essential to do for the discus & my other fish were tolerating the routine.
Unfortunately & I don’t know why but one of the discus died about 3 months ago I think it was a female & she was smaller than the other discus. There was no obvious sign of illness on the body so I assumed it was something internal she died from. I just bought another discus to replace the one that died & it’s in QT. My question is re: amount of water am changing out of 36 gallon weekly LFS employee told me 50% weekly is too much water that I could get away with doing 25% biweekly. What do you think? I just did a 25% Wc & gravel vac today & value opinions given in this forum. If I do 25% wc’s still do them weekly or biweekly? Thanks stay safe all.
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