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Due to the fish becoming more skittish I have reluctantly decided to put it up for sale.   If anybody is interested please see: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272110500482?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 .

  The plan is to get another Discus or 2 when I sell my 2 120 litre aquariums and buy a larger 500 litre one for the living room. Being on his/her own perhaps is the cause of it not being confident enough to seek out food but I'm compensating for that by spending 1 or 2 hours ensuring it eats.

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  Is it definitely a he? I've always wondered.

  Ok I'll pick up a Tropical Mix and see if it likes the black worms and white worms. I've known it to ignore artemia for some reason but anything left over is eaten by the Corydoras Aeneus shoal anyway.   The poor thing started life emaciated, is picky with food and recently had its territory...

    Tetra Prima is what I ordered just yesterday. Hopefully my Discus will appreciate the taste and size. If something is too small or big it ignores it and sometimes it will ignore the food based on taste alone.   I do feed the discus frozen blood worm. Again, as with the staple food, the worm...

Hi all,   For a while now I have been feeding my Discus Tetra Crisps and have found that it can take over 1 hour to get it to swallow a sufficient amount due to the crisp being too big for its mouth. I usually have to crush 3-4 crisps down into granular bits and then make into an even finer...

Fish usually swim with their head down if they are generally unwell; they won't necessarily have a swim bladder issue. If the fish does have damage or an infection to the swim bladder it will typically swim upside down or sidewards and will have no control over which direction it wants to swim...

This issue is now resolved. It was indeed the pond soil that had leached the ammonia out into the water. I have now removed the soil and the plant containers permanently.

An unexpected crisis has occurred in my 1600 litre Koi pond recently, in that after 2 years of having excellent water quality (ammonia and nitrite at 0 ppm as well has a optimum nitrate and pH level), my ammonia level has suddenly started to spike at 2 ppm (as recorded 2 days ago). Over the last...

Aren't there two kinds of Elodea, one for the cold water and one for the tropical aquarium?   I have Elodea Densa in an aquarium with a temperature of 31 degrees C. To get them to grow you need to avoid putting them into co2 'dead zones' as they have the potential to grow very quickly or die...

Thank you for your suggestions.    Would a 90%+ water change solve the issue along with giving the filter media a thorough clean? The issue I have is that when I disturb this detritus a lot of it does not get sucked into the filter as my rate of filtration is only 350 litres per hour. I do have...

Hello,   For the past few weeks my aquarium has had thousands of light brown minuscule dust-like particles floating in the water column as well as darker brown cumulations of the same that adheres to the plant leaves, glass and filter box.   What exactly is it and how do I get rid of it? I'd...

  Out of those symptoms it is just darting forward and sometimes swims erratically.   The other fish in there are acting very normal; I'd expect them to be showing some symptoms of irritation given that they are also in the treatment water but they are not doing so.   I am finding that after...

Hi all,   I thought I'd return to this thread as the Discus is displaying some symptoms associated with body flukes in that it is shaking it's head and jolting forward as though it is trying to rid itself of some irritation. I have treated the tank in succession and to no avail with WaterLife...

  Ok thanks for the advice there. It would appear that it had eaten too much that day. I had put more food in than usual because the fish had been very selective in what it was consuming. Unfortunately, it did a u-turn and eat everything that I offered.

How many blood worms can a small-sized Pigeon-blood Discus consume within a 5 minute time frame?   I realise that the fish is quite big compared to other small cichlids like the German Blue Ram or the Boliviam Ram but it's stomach appears to be very small and I'm now wondering if I should cut...

  Ok thank you. I've not found Sterazin to be bad when treating my Koi but I guess different species react differently.

  Well I'm still using Sterazin and this needs to be dosed on days 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8 (or something similar; I will have to double check) to deal with the body flukes. However, I believe this also treats internal worms as well.   When I have finished the Sterazin dosing I will switch back to...

  Hey WILDER,   The fish appears very happy now. It darts around the aquarium, weaving its way around bog wood and plants. I've taken a lot of bog wood and plants out so that about 70% of the tank is open space.   Here is a video I uploaded of the...

  I don't know what will happen for certain but the fish is eating like there's no tomorrow at the moment so one would hope that it puts on some weight and becomes more energetic.   Unfortunately, the plants I recently introduced to the aquarium seemed to have come inclusive with skin flukes (as...

  Thank you for your suggestions and for not having a go at me like some people. I have ordered some more freeze-dried food for now for it. Where would I get live mosquito wrigglers? I would have to buy them in, but I'm sure we get these growing in our pond filter in the summer.

    My response to you is this:   I have stated that the fish was in a dimly lit aquarium so it was not, in your words, "obviously" sick. That is your quote, your painting a different picture to what I was faced with on the day of purchase. The "responsibility" for the this fish nearly dying...

    I was aware of the fishes requirements on the day of purchase which is much more than what can be said for the shop  which were starving this thing to death.   With regards to the possibility of getting good service I can tell you that that most likely will not happen as they have a...

It seems to be eating Hikari Micro Pellets which I sink to the bottom. While a fish is eating there is always hope 

  I will do my absolute best and get back in-touch.   Before I go, would it be worth me reducing the amount of hours the light is on in the tank? When humans are ill they usually know to rest "when the lights are on" but fish don't. So perhaps more dark hours would encourage it to rest and...

  I have some Seachem Garlic Guard which I placed over blood worms and two other freeze dried foods and it did appear to stay in the spot where the garlic was placed in the aquarium but it would not eat anything.   I have applied the Kusuri Wormer Plus and I have sunk some Hikari Micro pellets...

  Hi,   There is nothing in the mouth.   I will re-apply Kusuri Wormer which I had used 5 days ago as part of a disease prevention routine I have.   What is your experience with regards to cichlids and internal worms? My view is that 9/10 LFS have this problem but are happy to still sell you the...

  Hi WILDER,   I will have a go at checking the mouth for something. The gills are ok at the moment in that there is no redness and they are moving at a normal rate.

Bacterial blooms are, from experience, the resulting effect of very high ammonia readings. I would recommend you set up a separate body of water and place the fish into that body of water while you complete a 100% water change on your main aquarium. From then onwards I would reduce your fish...

Before I describe the fishes behaviour, here are my aquarium stats:   Aquarium volume: 120 litres Total Ammonia: 0 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Nitrate: 20 ppm PH: 6.0 Temperature: 29 degrees C. Other fish in the aquarium: 2 German Blue Rams, Corydoras and several Black Neon Tetras.     I acquired a...

The fish could have ammonia poisoning or a bacterial infection of the swim bladder. The latter can cause a fish to lose balance and it will generally go in the direction of the current.

My bolivian ram has recently started to refused to eat and it has started to look like it has tar marks going horizontal across its body. I have tested the water and observed an ammonia level of 0 ppm, nitrite of 0ppm but the pH is reading as 6.0 or lower. 6 is the lowest on the scale of my API...

I have not seen any small red threads hanging from the anus. I just see long minuscule white threads which is thought to be a symptom of hexamita. I'm not sure how I'd positively identify the parasite since if it is hexamita, the damage is being done inside rather than outside. Would it be worth...

I've noticed over the past 2-3 weeks that one of my male Bolivian Rams started to only eat the miniscule particles breaking away from the sinking tabimin pellets I was putting in for the Corydoras. I put this highly selective behaviour down to the fact that their is another male Bolivian ram in...

Day 2 video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8YHefY4Dc