I got a discus. This could be the start of a new adventure.

So I have many differant kinds of SA cichlids and I just love them. I have always wanted discus but was sure I could do it. Everyone makes them out to be so hard to care for.

So after lots of thinking it over. I bought one. The only healthy one I found at my lfs 2" $20 red pigeo. Of some kind. I got
to the store right as the fish were being taken out of boxes. So I got to take this guy home before he went in to their tanks. There were 3 the other 2 looked like death and had some open wound. My guy was swimming around and looked good in his yellow dirty water.

He is an only discus right now and doing great for only being in the tank for 13 hr. He eats and swims around. Comes to the front of the tank when I go to look at him.

I'm looking to find my rescue uaru a new home so I can make
room for discus. Also my uaru are not as cool as I thought they would be. They hide all the time and are skitish. My one 2" discus is more out going then these 2 5" uaru.

Anyway here he is. Peep is the name. Not the color I would have picked but besides that he is great.

Congratz on the new Discus!!
He looks Great!!!!!

Cool, I love these..

Yeah very nice fish, i do wanna have one of those in the future..

I've started keeping them also in the past few months Feed Frozen Bloodworms and Brine Shrimp... I also do water changes with RO water from my local grocery store ..They are beatiful I have 9

How big is your tank?

I feed frozen blood worms and a mix of beefhearts and brine shrimp. This little guy is already eatting and he was shipped out yesterday. I'm not going to do RO my water is soft and discus can adjust even wild diacus can be kept in ph 7.5 .

awesome discus.. congratz to new venture... Enjoy!!!

thanks guys.

He is looking better already. He eats well swims around is not shy. He is much more then I thought he would be. I always thought they were just pretty and nothing more. but this little guys is pretty cool with personality.

great too hear.

nice color, i like it

Too bad you do not live in the Dallas, Ft. Worth area. I know a guy who breeds them and sells the babies for ten bucks. He even cuts a deal when you buy allot of them. That is where all of my discus have came from. Every one i found in lfs run around $50 each. I currently have 6 and am waiting on another one to breed so i can get some of its fry. (wild card discuss) I think that is the name of it. Good luck on yours, they can be difficult at times.

Just keep up with your small water changes and you'll be fine. Just make sure to only do 10% or so though. I've found with picky fish that the big water changes I normally do (30%-50%) are really hard on them. I would lose German Blue Rams because the water quality changed to the good, but it changed too fast. Small fluctuations are better.

hi snowflake im new to this fourm but ive been keeping discus for years i have 15 in a 125gal tank with 2 dozen cardinal tetras and a dozen rummy nose tetras 6 corys and a pair of kribs you need to check out aquabid.com some great discus shipped to your door most fish stores just dont keep them well just rember to keep them warm i keep mine at 85 and i change 50% of my water weekley with tap water had mine for over 3years now you need to keep a group and its best to put them in at the same time and the same size they are great fish if you do that good luck

snow he's very pretty.

I have 9 discus right now and am fortunate that I know 3 local breeders. Since Peep just shipped in, I would get a few tablets of Metro and for the next 5 days, I would disolve 1/2 a tablet of metro in a small amount of water (very small amt) along with some dried blood worms (dried not frozen)....let the metro and the worms soak together for an hour and then feed the mixture to him. this should eliminate any internal parasites. this should be his only feeding during these 5 days and preferably in the morning. best of luck to you...he should color up more once he gets settled in...

Allen j t............How are your Discus doing?......Still messing with the plants?........I lost a 2 inch Pigeon Blood recently, but the others look great......I even broke down and tried some Asian bred Discus......You gotta treat them with Jungle Parasite Clear because they are full of parasites......The live black worm that LFSs feed their fish are usually infested with parasites also, so be wary.

Dano

Looks great! Good luck with him!

congrats!!! he is very cute!!!

They like live blackworms. I would not feed beef heart, only feed aquatic meat to fish.

Fern wrote:

They like live blackworms. I would not feed beef heart, only feed aquatic meat to fish.

beef heart is safe, thats what every discus breeder uses..

Beef hart is fine as long as you remove the un-eaten portion so it will not spoil in the water. That is what i feed to mine when they was little and in a 20 gallon to grow them out. I usually feed it to them shortly before i did a water change on the tank. Now i feed frozen blood worms, frozen tubifex,frozen brine shrimp.

He's handsome! Keep us updated with new pics as he grows!

Thats a nice lookin little one you have there.
I would deworm him the way Tanya said in her post.
as for fish that can go with him sm apostos, tetras ect
as for food I feed Beef heart mix 24/7 365
do your water changes at least 30% twice a week
thats my 2 cents

I've got a set just under 2" that get 50%+ water changes daily and frozen foods including beefheart anytime I'm at home, with an autofeeder dropping granuales when I'm not. It's surprising how much cr@p builds on the glass,I wipe down at least twice a week. But once they get big enough they'll be in a big planted tank and all that won't be possible.