Discus Fish
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rabbut
I don't bite, all that often...
We usualy recomend a 4ft 55g tank for them, but you *may* scrape it. How wide and tall is it?
Realy, you want a minimum group of 5, and to buy them at 4" or longer as a first time Discus keeper. Small Discus are very easily stunted and even the breeders often struggle to prevent it in bare tanks with daily waterchanges...
All the best and
to TFF
Rabbut
Realy, you want a minimum group of 5, and to buy them at 4" or longer as a first time Discus keeper. Small Discus are very easily stunted and even the breeders often struggle to prevent it in bare tanks with daily waterchanges...
All the best and
to TFFRabbut
We usualy recomend a 4ft 55g tank for them, but you *may* scrape it. How wide and tall is it?
Realy, you want a minimum group of 5, and to buy them at 4" or longer as a first time Discus keeper. Small Discus are very easily stunted and even the breeders often struggle to prevent it in bare tanks with daily waterchanges...
All the best and
Rabbut
i havnt actually bought my tank yet. im buying it on the weekend but the biggest i can fit is about 37-40 inches wide. and im planning on getting a pretty tall tank aswell. and then after my tank is setup and the water is right then im gonna buy them.
also umm there are 2 places where i can get discus from and i was wondering which one you recommend because at one place the discus are quite large and are all the same price no matter what colour and the staff dont really know a lot about them and they dont really swim around they just sit there, but at the other place the prices are different depending on which colour and most of them are only about 9cm long but the staff seem to know a lot more about them and have a larger range, so yeahh just wonderin which place you would chose..
thankyou..
rabbut
I don't bite, all that often...
The latter. It always helps if the staff have a clue and the fish are healthy to start 
Discus require a mature tank, so after it's cycled (i.e. Ammonia and Nitrite have dropped to 0 in 12 hours after adding to 5ppm, or remaining at constant zero's if you fish-in cycle) you want to add your dither fish, or some temperary inhabitants, for about 6 months and forget that it's a Discus tank 
Discus are widely considered hard to keep. This is mainly down to keeper igorance. Advanced, mebe, but difficult, no, not if you have researched them proerly and know their care requirements very well Spend the 6 months you must spend waiting for the tank to mature before adding them to your tank researching whenever you get a chance. When you feel more confident about them, start trying to help people with Discus on forums. Make it clear that you don't yet keep them, just say what you would do. When other people that keep them keep comming in and saying yes, good advice/idea, you are ready to try them. If you keep being corrected, don't be disheartened, look on it as a chance to realise more research is needed before you jump in at the deap end If you aren't well researched before getting Discus and don't have an established tank for them, you will likely loose them 
Usualy, you aim for at least 18" tall, 48" long and 15" wide for a tank for Discus. If length is lacking a bit though, you can make up for it with a wider tank and clever aquascaping to break-up the lines of sight It's best to try to go with fish at least 10cm long, and to start off in a bare tank
HTH
Rabbut
Discus require a mature tank, so after it's cycled (i.e. Ammonia and Nitrite have dropped to 0 in 12 hours after adding to 5ppm, or remaining at constant zero's if you fish-in cycle) you want to add your dither fish, or some temperary inhabitants, for about 6 months and forget that it's a Discus tank
Discus are widely considered hard to keep. This is mainly down to keeper igorance. Advanced, mebe, but difficult, no, not if you have researched them proerly and know their care requirements very well
Spend the 6 months you must spend waiting for the tank to mature before adding them to your tank researching whenever you get a chance. When you feel more confident about them, start trying to help people with Discus on forums. Make it clear that you don't yet keep them, just say what you would do. When other people that keep them keep comming in and saying yes, good advice/idea, you are ready to try them. If you keep being corrected, don't be disheartened, look on it as a chance to realise more research is needed before you jump in at the deap end If you aren't well researched before getting Discus and don't have an established tank for them, you will likely loose them Usualy, you aim for at least 18" tall, 48" long and 15" wide for a tank for Discus. If length is lacking a bit though, you can make up for it with a wider tank and clever aquascaping to break-up the lines of sight
It's best to try to go with fish at least 10cm long, and to start off in a bare tank HTH
Rabbut
Think we need a few more of these in this thread:
well done on that thread i am pretty new at discus but done alot of research and learnt more by looking at this forum and you need to listen to these fellas or you will lose all your fish and be put off haveing discus and they are one of the best fish you can keepThink we need a few more of these in this thread:
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