What you should know about discus

[simonas]

discus are ace fish and not as tricky as people make out but some can occasionally test your patience with an unwillingness to eat no matter what

I currently have about 12 I think in my set up with altums and plecs. They feed on pellet food as well as beefheart from Chens discus which is the best food I have ever fed them and which has got them eating and growing like weeds

 

[Fishfunn]

Yea mine don't even like beefheart or turkeyheart; the real issue is getting them off of blackworms. I constantly worry they are eating too many black worms.

I finally got mine to eat flakes. The only flakes mine likes are Tetra Color Select Tropical Flakes. It took me almost two months before I could get him to finally eat it. He was only eating frozen bloodworms before that.

 

[anewbie]

I finally got mine to eat flakes. The only flakes mine likes are Tetra Color Select Tropical Flakes. It took me almost two months before I could get him to finally eat it. He was only eating frozen bloodworms before that.

Yea i'll get more aggressive switching them to better foods in a few months - right now they are a little thin - one died i think from starvation but i'm not sure. As mine are wc it could have been something else (I had it 6 months before it died); the others are doing much better since i've trippled their worm feeding and are showing better bodies (I also dosed them for worm with expel but i'm not 100% sure it did a lot). Anyway till at least late october i'll feed them their tripple dose of worms and then try to ween them to more algae based foods.

 

[Fishfunn]

Yea i'll get more aggressive switching them to better foods in a few months - right now they are a little thin - one died i think from starvation but i'm not sure. As mine are wc it could have been something else (I had it 6 months before it died); the others are doing much better since i've trippled their worm feeding and are showing better bodies (I also dosed them for worm with expel but i'm not 100% sure it did a lot). Anyway till at least late october i'll feed them their tripple dose of worms and then try to ween them to more algae based foods.

I use Seachem GarlicGuard mixed in the food whenever I want to stimulate their appetites. I used that to get them to start eating the flakes. Eventually I got my finicky eaters to eat the flakes.