![]() Everything bigger and better than in the nature. sp the results of such a diet means an outstanding growth, coloration. The diet You wrote about is bollocks □ It’s a strange thing that rarely anybody thinks about what actually feeding the meet of warm-blooded animals does to the (most of) fish. Don’t feed them more than they can eat in about 30 seconds, most food packets say 2-3 minutes but I think this is too much, a fishes stomach is only about the size of it’s eyes. Discus need a wide variety of foods such as pellets and flake foods and will eat a good variety too, they are not too picky, remember to give them a varied diet, feeding small amounts a good few times a day. Discus like to have a nice large root to swim around, it makes them feel at ease as they are a shy fish.įor feeding discus many people like to make their own frozen food as a part of their diet, with a mixture of beef heart, shrimp, cod and vegetables, something like 70% beef heart (remove the white sinew from the beef heart), 15% cod, 10% shrimp and 5% peas would be good, you can find many other recipes online, just put it in the blender, compact it into a flat slab and freeze it, then break off chunks for feeding as needed. Young discus need frequent water changes, I would suggest at the minimum 30% every 2 days although once a day is obviously better, once they reach adult stage 30% every second day is okay but again every day is better. A breeding pair should have plenty of space both horizontally and vertically, so a tank around 48″ x 18″ x 18″ (120cm x 45cm x 45cm) – 255 litres is recommended for a few juvenile fish or a pair of breeding adults.ĭiscus prefer a slightly acidic PH, A PH of between 6.0 and 6.5 is okay for them although Wild discus are generally harder to keep in an aquarium environment. Aquarium Size Top ↑Īlthough Discus only grow to around 6″, they can grow to be as tall as they are long. It is however claimed that Discus can actually reach 9″ in aquaria through a stringent regime of frequent, large water changes during the most important growth periods. The maximum size reported for wild Discus is around 14cm (6″). Here it lives in schools in deep, sheltered areas around tree roots and rocks. It’s not often seen in the main river channels, being mostly found in slow-moving tributaries and forest pools. Introduced populations also exist in the neighbouring countries of Guyana and Suriname. The natural range of this species extends down the Rio Solimões and along the main Amazon river, between the Rio Putamayo in Colombia and Peru as far as the Rio Tocantins drainage in Brazil. Order: Perciformes Family: Cichlidae Distribution Symphysodon aequifasciatus PELLEGRIN, 1904 Discus Classification ![]()
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