Can Any1 Help Me

[discuslover]

Hello all, was wondering if anyone could confirm my suspicions. I have a 70 gal jewel vision tank stocked with angels and rainbow fish, two reed fish and a ghost knife fish. my wife and i are just about to move house and i plan on taking the fish back to the lfs and they will give me a credit note and once ive moved i plan on setting up my tank with a shoal of discus maybe with a suitable shaol of tetra. My wife is soo in love with our ghost knife fish and would like to keep him and put him in the new set up onced we have moved house along side the discus but im not too sure wether they will get along. the knife fish hides most of day and is a good size around 6inchs long. can any1 let me know wat they think?

also would reed fish be ok with discus

 

[Chris5787]

Not sure about the ghost knife fish, never hear much about them.

I think your biggest problem would be between the angels and discus.

 

[Bebobb]

Yeah Discuss like schools of olike 12 or mo0re and have like a 6 or 7 inch Length. That would mean you could only get 12. I'd get a larger tank, sell all of your stuff, ask the fish store to buy it. Start your cycle and get discuss, make sure you don't have a lot of males or you will be in fight city and bankrupt city, lol. I'd order some off the internet.

 

[rabbut]

People, please don't offer advise unless you are 100% about what you are talking about.

Discus and knife fish would be a no IMO. The knife fish are semi-nocturnal, and would spook the discus while they sleep, leading to stressed discus. Stressed discus usually start refusing to eat if the problem goes on long enough, and are renound for volenteraly starving to death if something isn't right. For this reason, I'd advise leaving the knife fish out of the planned discucs set-up.

Discus need a group, but not a 12 strong one. Five-Eight is the usual recomendation for group size for beginers. You want 10 gallons per fish, so you could get up-to seven, but the minimum tank size is 55g I'd mebe get 6, leaving 10 inches of stocking for "diter fish", your compatible tetras.

To do well, the discus need lots of clean fresh water. Fish under four inches will need 50% waterchanges daily minimum, over four inches, they need at least 50% twice weekly, and adults need 50% weekly. Lots of clean water IMO is the key to healty discus Not supplying enough clean water will stunt them, and is the most common discus "newbie" error.

Domestic discus aren't too fussy about water hardness and pH, but anything extreamly alkaline or hard should be avoided A mature (six months or more old) tank is IME more important Leave the wild caught discus untill you have experience with domestically bred ones, as the wild caught fish need exact water conditions that require lots of effort to maintain.

Best advise for discus, research, research and research some more untill you can answer all discus questions cropping up on the forum. When ready to get he fish, forget the research Copy a working set-up and then add your fish to it. If it works, don't fix it. If it does not work, you will get a gut feeling from the research, which you should follow

HTH
Rabbut

Edit to add, you don't need 12 fish or a larger tank. Discus mix fine with angels so long as the angels do not pair

 

[discuslover]

Thanks so much for the time rabbut to confirm my suspicions. i will takeyour advice and research more about discus and thx 4 correcting the advice given i could been selling my tank lol or cramping it with 12 discus. not that daft im afraid!!! my wife will be upset about her knife fish but ill break it to her gently lol. thanxs again mate.