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Germans are obsessive, many breeders even keep the breeding rooms a very heavily guarded secret, under lock and key.. Discus also have a lot of value here, and a 12" fish will usually fetch 400-1000 EUR each. Yes, people really do pay that here! But it is also a very popular hobby here: even the most basic beginner tanks here are planted and often quite appropriately sized for the fish, which I find refreshing, coming from UK, and it is very common to walk along the street and see an aquarium through a window of about every third house or so. When I first came over from UK and was unloading my furniture from the van (inc. the aquariums and fish), I even had a few people who were walking along the street stop and start talking to me about fishkeeping! (Which didn't work very well, given that I couldn't speak a word of German at the time..12"!? That must be some Discus, cant say Ive seen many more than the 8" range, I would also say 8-10", but its a skill to get them that big
) Compared to other countries I have been to, the community here is very friendly and open, language is the only barrier I have come up against and even then, a lot of people do speak fluent English (generally, they start by saying "I really must apologise for my awful English") and switch as soon as I stumble in my broken German. And as for LFS, the bad ones are what I would consider to be the average in UK, but the good ones are much better.. Of course, one has to pay the price for the quality: everything is about double the price I can get it for in UK.
