New Member Sharing Discus pictures and discussion - Aquarium Advice

yh88 · 05-06-2008, 04:41 AM

Hi All,

I started with an 15g fish tank. The longest surviving fish I had was a silver dollar (1 of 2 that survived) and it grew from about 2 in to almost 6 ins. It was getting very jittery whenever I introduced new fish into it. So I had it traded for credits from a LFS.

In Apr 08 I have a 55g AquaOne Tank to keep Discus. The discus are about 2 in in size when I had them. There are also 2 Corys, 2 sucker fish, 1 bristlenose, 10 rummy nose, 8 Cardinal tetras, 3 Neons and 6 Glolites. I have 1 4in+ ciclid in the 15g tank.

However, I am really at my wit s end as to how to get my 3 of 4 discus to eat their Sera discus granules. Of the 4, the yellow-red discus is the most voracious - it eats just about anything if it is hungry from flakes to veg wafers meant for catfishes. One of the discus the striped bluish red one always follows the yellow-red one to feed, but then it doesnt know how to eat from underneath the cone from which I feed them. Some articles claim that some discus are genetically deficient in their sight. I have 2 cones to feed them in case the smallest yellow-red discus gets bullied. But the smallest one just doesnt have the appetite for the granules, but is easily attracted to live blood worms and mosquito larvae - so also the most dominant one which has not appetite for the granules except live bloodworms.

I was told by the LFS that I should starve them for 2 days and then see what happens, but it doesnt seem to work. As I have stated I have one fish that has a great affinity for food thought it spits it out for the smaller fish to eat when it is full - it just like to 'peck' at everything.

Yes, eversince I changed to feeding them live blood worms (when they werent attracted to the Spectrum granules meant for tropical fish) their stools have gone white - but hasnt seem to have any effect on the voracious one which is 3rd in the pecking order. The most dominant one and the little one are always hiding away, I dont know how they are going to survive if they don t seem to eat at all

Kind regards to all

neilanh · 05-06-2008, 09:38 AM

Beautiful fish!

Welcome to AA!!!

**Devilishturtles** · 05-06-2008, 10:14 AM

Wow, nice!

Welcome to AA.

mom2reds · 05-06-2008, 10:29 AM

very pretty fish welcome to AA

**roka64** · 05-06-2008, 10:43 AM

Welcome to the site!
I like the 1st pic.

fearlessfisch · 05-06-2008, 12:50 PM

Beautiful fish!

You would probably get more responses to your questions about feeding if you posted in the Freshwater General Discussion forum.

Good luck!

Sahabo · 05-06-2008, 01:00 PM

Welcome to AA!

I agree, you should definitely post in the general discussion threads.

**melosu58** · 05-06-2008, 03:02 PM

Welcome to AA

yh88 · 05-07-2008, 02:05 AM

Thank u all for the replies.

**Ziggy953** · 05-07-2008, 09:40 AM

WOW! Very nice! Welcome to AA!

05-06-2008, 09:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
neilanh MTS Advocate Community Mentor Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 2,501 Images: 15	Beautiful fish! Welcome to AA!!! __________________ ~Neilan In the DC Metro Area? Check out GWAPA Look, I have a My Info Page! Where's yours? Useful Links: Vote for AA, Nitrogen Cycle, Fishless Cycling, Articles, Acronym List

05-06-2008, 10:14 AM	#3 (permalink)
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05-06-2008, 10:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
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fearlessfisch Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 545 Images: 7	Beautiful fish! You would probably get more responses to your questions about feeding if you posted in the Freshwater General Discussion forum. Good luck! __________________ joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea ________________________________ 55 and 20 gal. freshwater tropical tanks

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05-07-2008, 02:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
yh88 Aquarium Advice Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2	Thanks.. Thank u all for the replies.

05-07-2008, 09:40 AM	#10 (permalink)
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