Discus Hand feeding

Got some really neat pictures of feeding. I wanted to take a video and I will at some point but this has taken all of one month (from the time I got them) but they have now warmed up to their tank and me. I started hand feeding them and it made a huge difference in how they viewed me. Once they started coming to the top of the tank and eating out of my hand they all start to follow me as I walked past the tank. Now when I gravel vac the tank they swarm around my hand haha. I now completely understand why people love these fish so much.

Enjoy the pictures!

thats cool, my cichlids know when i grab the food jar off top of the tank and they know when im just looking at them. and my angels swarm the surface of teh water when i come up to the tank. my favorite thing is when i use the gravel vac they try and eat some of the stuff in the tube.

Nice fish. They look like EJ's. I have a bunch from some earlier batches. In fact they may have been in my tanks before. did you split a bunch with a friend in Richmond? What else do you have in Discus?

they look healthy

You have a good eye they are in fact those exact ones! These are my first 6. I plan to get more fairly soon as well.

Very nice.

Very Cool!

Have to upload a video sometime haha if I hold the food in my hand so that they can't get at it they will peck my fingers till I open up. I have owned lots of fish but these are at the top of the list. They are still fairly small but it is amazing to see their growth rate! I hope they all grow close to full size I think it would be pretty amusing hand feeding 6+ inch discus haha might actually feel those pecks!

Haha I agree. I can't wait to see what my male venustus does to me when he is full grown. He is about 5in atm and pecks my hand like crazy if I don't put the tubifex worms where he can get to them.

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Have to upload a video sometime haha if I hold the food in my hand so that they can't get at it they will peck my fingers till I open up. I have owned lots of fish but these are at the top of the list. They are still fairly small but it is amazing to see their growth rate! I hope they all grow close to full size I think it would be pretty amusing hand feeding 6+ inch discus haha might actually feel those pecks!

how about a picture of the parents to go with it. They are about 6 and 6 plus inches

How many 14 bar juvies did you get in you bunch? those may do something exceptional.

They look very nice as well.

Thanks for posting those! They made some very pretty babies haha.