discus fish loves to live with in a community,during their living they can form a pair,which is commonly known as breeding pair. make sure that the size of the breeding pair will be min. of 5 inch or more.when they breed they can from their own territory and they can attack other discus if they enter to their territory. at the same time, they move together,they eat together and most importantly they identify some places and clear the place for breed.
The best and primary way to breed discus is to keep breeding pair of discus. The common name of adult discus capable of breeding is known as “breeding pair discus”. You should Keep either 2 adult discus in your aquarium or keep 1 male and 2 female discus together. Most discus breeder keeps the bare bottom tank to breed discus. The female lays her eggs (up to 200) on a vertical support (PVC pipe, plant pot, aquarium glass). Other type of aquarium, which is used to breed discus, is the planted tank. Planted tank means an aquarium is full of natural plants. But it is very important to note that in discus aquarium only a few types of plants can survive. Those plants are echinodorous sp. and Anubias sp. Most discus can lay eggs on the echinodorous sp. plants. The large leaves of these plants are very attractive to them.
For a breeding pair of discus the selection of food is also very important. You should use “tetra bits” or frozen blood worm to feed them. Proper selection of filter is also very useful. I say you that do not use power filter because discus cannot survive in the high power filtering system. You can use biological or peat filter. For a discus breeding tank 86-88 deg Fahrenheit temperature is used. Moreover, the ph level which is used is 6.5-7. The nitrite and ammonia level of the tank must be zero.
