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I keep getting discus fish and everytime they are in my tank within 1 week they start breathing fast through 1 gill. Anyway this is the third time I have kept discus and once again three of the four fish are breathing through one gill fast and it's only the 5th day of having them. They are in...

Hey everyone, I've posted on here quite a bit in the past about small problems I had been having with the discus I was keeping at those times. A lot has changed since then and I think I have things a little more controlled now. I just wanted to create my own topic about Discus fish that allows...

(Skip to bottom to get to questions if you want lol) I'm starting to think my tank is cursed with gill flukes or something and I'm starting to get really sick of it. A couple months back I had started off with some new discus and they had gill flukes or something and it got out of hand...

So.. This has been an ongoing problem since the introduction of my discus. I have had them for over a month now and i am still having a gill problem. I have tried so many things like quarantining, treatment, daily 50-80% wc to get rid of it but no. The same symptoms remain. Clamping one of their...

Hi guys, One my new discus is breathing quite fast and only out of one gill :( it's weird though because he is showing his colour beautifully, he is never hiding and is always with the other discus, he doesn't have any clamped fins, he is eating very well, he is not scratching, dashing, or...

Hi there! I recently went to an aquarium pet shop that sells monster tanks and a large range of fish. they have over 150 tanks on saltwater, coldwater, and tropical fish. The guy serving me told me about a special they have on an aquarium. The aquarium is a 420 litre (around 110 gallons i...

My chocolate oranda male & my female red & white oranda laid eggs yesterday morning in a 40 gal breeder tub :) (In New Zealand spring is start of september through to end of november just incase this confuses some people) As soon as the parents stopped i took them out and i lowered the water...

Hi there, I am very interested in try to breed goldfish. I decided about a week ago that breeding my fancy goldfish was going to my new project and funnily enough 2 days later a pair of goldfish had their first spawn. Sadly i had absolutely no idea about goldfish breeding yet so i most of the...

Hi guys, I had an unexpected spawn in my show tank the other day. The male was a calico moor who was actually chasing some females about 2 days prior to the spawn but i'm not sure which one was the female? Anyway... I was hoping that i could breed them more in september (spring time in NZ) so i...

I have a small 15 gallon aquarium which houses one male betta fish. It is a bare bottom tank and the betta is doing really good in the tank actually. The tank has some river stones and some plants that i left floating and some that i wedged between rocks (i went bare bottom in my large fancy...

I bought an oranda a week ago and when i floated the bag in my aquarium i noticed one 1 spot on the orandas wen. I'm pretty sure it's not ich because the spots are bigger then ich spots (i'll leave photos down below) i kind if thought it was nothing and as the days went by it got smaller and...

Its a female moor of some sort. I thought she was a white butterfly but her tail isn't very butterfly like. And then i thought she was an albino but i'm not to sure? Ver beautiful in my opinion though! :) Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

So my brother got me a new lion head today except i didn't ask for one. Anyway when i looked at it i thought it was quite long for a lion head and it doesn't even have a wen? The fish is over 10cm long and it has a little bit of a wen growing (i'll put a photo down bottom) He said the pet shop...

So i have have lately posted a few topics on my discus being aggressive. After doing more larger and frequent water changes they have slowly calmed down (still occasionally chasing and pecking). last week they were the most beautiful i have ever seen them. So colourful schooling together and...

So i'm new into the discus world and i finally have got my setup almost complete :) the only problem is my discus are very aggressive! I have Two 3" blue diamonds One 3" marlboro red One 3.5" pigeon blood One 3.5 blue leopard One 4-4.5" red melon (i know its quite large but it does not bother...

I bought 2 blue diamond discus the other week to go with all my other discus. They haven't been doing so well in that tank (always being bullied) they are eating and still love eating! But i also think they may have brought gill flukes to the tank. one of the blue diamonds tends to flash on...

I started keeping discus 3 weeks ago after 3 months of having some time to research and prepare the tank for them (the tank was already cycled before then, its almost been 6 months of that tank being cycled) once i got them, all i had was problems ever since day 1. Aggression, sickness symptoms...

I have a 60 gallon aquarium with live plants and driftwood with the temp at 30 degrees Celsius. Also i clean my tank twice a week taking out 50% all together and my parameters are: Ph: 7.2 Am: 0 ppm Nitri: 0 ppm Nitra: 5ppm Anyway i have 5 discus; 2 diamond blues, 1 leopard snakeskin, 1 pigeon...

I bought 4 discus a week ago and 2 of them were to aggressive toward my other 2 favourites. So i returned the aggressive 2 back to the store yesterday (the lady will be ordering replacements next week) since yesterday when i netted the fish out, got new driftwood and plants, did a wc, etc the 2...

I went to a pet shop a few days ago and bought my first 4 discus. When i went into the store there were 2 that were literally black (brilliant turquoise discus) and 2 that were colourful and happy swimming around (pigeon blood and marlboro). I knew that dark discus are bad signs but when the...

Im really interested in keeping discus fish but i was told i need atleast 4-6 unless they're a pair, so i was going to get 4 but then i was told once they reach maturity they will pair off and ill have to move the non paired up discus into separate tanks which i cant really afford to do,so i...

Ive set up a 15 gallon breeding tank with a 6" water level, heated up to 28.4 degrees Celsius, tank has no substrate, i have floating plants and hiding places for the female and im conditioning the pair with live mosquito larvae, freeze dried bloodworm, and frozen brine shrimp. Ive already...