Discus Pictures

[Jed67]

Great pics!!!
They are good looking fish

 

[ringham]

Thanks

The discus in the first pic and the very blue discus have actually paired off now lol and are breeding LOADS!!!

 

[Anita]

Thanks

The discus in the first pic and the very blue discus have actually paired off now lol and are breeding LOADS!!!

Any luck with babies, or do the eggs get eaten?

Anita

 

[tetraman]

I want discus soooooooooo bad!

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

Anita, you said you have 6 Discus? How come I counted seven or eight in one of the pictures

 

[Anita]

You did, one I lost
Also largest fish in the tank I took back to the breeder (I only had him about 6 months), he paired up and spawned several times with one of the browns. But he also decided he wanted to keep her for himself 24/7. So he completely dominated half of the tank and wouldn't let any of the other discus there and wouldn't let his mate mix with the rest of the group, he was pretty aggressive to all the other discus. I changed the decor to see if it would help, but no. A couple of the smaller fish started to hide away and weren't showing good colour, so back he went.

Anita

 

[Rafael Dilone]

Anita I have to say those are some of the Healthiest Prettiest Discus I have seen. You have alot of fish in that tank. Is it not hard to maintain good water quality with so many fishes.

 

[Anita]

Anita I have to say those are some of the Healthiest Prettiest Discus I have seen. You have alot of fish in that tank. Is it not hard to maintain good water quality with so many fishes.

Yes there are a lot of fish in there never looks it though, I guess that's because apart from the discus everything is on the small size.
No I don't seem to suffer many problems (I hate saying that, as it seems to be tempting fate ) but, I put it down to the amount of water that gets changed every week, a UV (which perhaps helps a bit) and a massively over filtered tank

Discus seem happy enough, which is good here's a picture of them guarding eggs after spawning. Didn't like me going near the tank with the camera though as you can see!

Anita

 

[Loko17]

Wow I love Discus. If I had a tank big enough to house a group I would have them because my LFS is crawling with them all the time, all young ones that are about 3 inches from top to bottum. But If I got them I'd probably want to breed them and breeding killies is just too much fun to give it up. And my mom says no more tanks...

 

[Marshall..]

I have always had trouble with my discus fighting they pick on one until he stops eating and dies all yours look really healthy is it just a case of taking the aggresive fish back. Ilove discus but hate their nature yet others seem to have no problem with it why?

 

[tetraman]

I would like to breed both killies and discus, but my LFS has neither. I'd have to turn to Aquabid.

 

[Anita]

I have always had trouble with my discus fighting they pick on one until he stops eating and dies all yours look really healthy is it just a case of taking the aggresive fish back. Ilove discus but hate their nature yet others seem to have no problem with it why?

That is why you must start with a good sized group 5 at a minimum. The bigger the group, any aggression can be distributed between the fish.
You will always get a dominant fish, if that fish is removed because you consider him/her to be a bully another will take it's place, and so the behaviour continues.
The male I returned to the breeder was a large fish (biggest in the tank) and he immediately took the dominant role, which was ok. But that combined with in pairing off made the situation much worse.
I have found introducing small fish is easy, the larger ones do not see them as a threat and pretty much ignore them.

Sorry I rattled on a bit there.

Anita

 

[Anita]

Ilove discus but hate their nature yet others seem to have no problem with it why?

As cichlids there pretty easy going their nature is the thing I find endearing.

Off topic...
Last night in Plymouth it was pretty cold, anyway the tank temperature dropped a bit over night. This morning I came down and they were all gathered around the heater as if they were letting me know it was a little cold in there! I turned the heaters up a notch, and didn't even move away for their breakfast until the water warmed up a bit (true)

Anita

 

[love-angel]

Your tank really nice , i wish i have 1 like that .

 

[xygtfalcon]

Awesome discus

Wish I could afford them