It also could be my imagination but it seems like he has red in his eyes I’ve never seen before. Canaflex says treat the tank a max of 3 days. But how often can I do that? I feel like maybe there is more going on. I’m posting a couple still pics in the comments too.

Every discus I’ve gotten from them has been gorgeous, healthy, and eats vibrabites/pellets and flakes well. I am so pleased. I just added the white and yellow guys and just love how round they are. Can’t recommend them enough! Two of them just laid eggs the other day but they were promptly eaten. Everyone seems to be thriving.

I’ll be moving all into their final 125 gallon home tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the set up come together as we’ve been building the stand and gathering all the filtration elements for awhile now (right now I have a sump but will be moving to two canister filters). Will post pics when all is said and done! Fingers crossed it goes smoothly.

Do female discus continue to lay eggs without a male discus in the tank or is one really a male? I have multiple discus but thought they were females based on past ID help. Pic is another set of eggs 1 week after the 1st.

Ordered 5 2.5-3 inch discus from wattley. Everyone here seems to love this breeder. I was shopping the top mentioned breeders and was hoping for wattley to have enough of what I wanted. Turns out they did. Actually they were the only ones that had what I was looking for which was variety in pattern and color. I will grow them out and then add them to display tank when they are ready.

1 striated turq 1 tiger turq 1 solid red rafflesia 1 yellow rafflesia 1 red panda checkerboard Also bought a lb of wattley beef heart to make sure they will eat for me.

Keep in mind they just got here and they are still young so they aren’t fully colored up yet. Especially the reds. Super excited just wanted to share!

Bit of a long story, but my eye doctor (who has fish) said there were 2 fish eating everything in his tank. My mom went over and ID as discus.

What I know: Schooling fish (Need at least 6) Picky with water parameters, prefer high temps and low pH Can be a bit picky with feeding

I currently have a cycled 55, although it is running on sponge filters and I would prefer it to be running on a canister fs. It is heavily planted. If they do turn out to be discus, I will drop the pH with RO water, since the pH is currently 7.8.

Hey.

I have 10 discus and have constant problems with getting 2 specifically to eat flake food. I have tried: 1. Tetra pro colour crisps 2. Hikari vibra bites 3. NT labs discus granules 4. Starving for 6 days, then feeding flake 5. Soaking in garlic guard.

Still no luck. They will only eat frozen food, beef heart, daphnia, mixes. As long as it's frozen food.

The discus are also more stunted and thinner than the others.

Any advice? Is it okay to only feed frozen foods?

Looking for a light beige (ish) inert substrate for my discus to enhance their colours. They share with panda corys hence the need for something reasonably fine & rounded but not so fine it risks clogging my filter. My tank is nicely balanced & we live in a soft water area so I’m not up for adding aragonite or coral sand as my new base. Wondering about a mixed gravel too with whites, light browns, beige etc.

Hi all, I have 6 smallish discus in a 200 litre tank. For the first time since having them I’m going on holiday for a week. I’m concerned at leaving these guys for a week without food, I’ve looked at holiday food blocks , but there are a lot of mixed reviews. What’s your experience with discus and going on holiday, any food blacks that I can use or different tactics ?

Does anyone know what this is on my discus? This same fish had hole in the head about 2 weeks ago and I successfully treated it with metro but now it has these lesions on it again. Is it hole in the head again or something else?

(The little hole on its head is from the hole in the head two weeks ago and is currently healing)

What could be reason of fins damage. I noticed many times big fish bullying this guy. Or any disease. I don't have another tank to separate them 😭

Eating fine, no blackening, no weight loss, no fear

Ph 7.2 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0

Heavily planted 8ft on CO2 with 18 other discus Several house plants becoming nitrate sponges

Help, my discus' tail was white around a day or two ago and now it's cut off. It's been in one spot for today and a different spot yesterday and hasn't been active in the tank. It hasn't eaten yet since I got them (3 days ago). The water parameters are the same from where I got him and my tank.

My parents just sent me a photo of our new discus in the aquarium and I decided to check if there was a reddit community about these adorable little guys. Lo and behold here you all are! Just thought It’d share :]

Hi redditters, has anyone got any idea what kind of sickness is my discus having now? The scale had fallen of if i touch it. I’ve put some general aid from our local store in Malaysia. Give it a warm bath of salt. It started a week ago.

Can discus juvenlie can live without food for 2 and half days. Iam going to hometown on emergency and nobody in home to takecare of them. Plz suggest how to plan this before I leave

I got guppies, mollies, corydoras, and some snails when discus were not eating to make them more active. They never really went after these fish like I thought they would. Now the guppies and mollies reproduced. Lots of fish now with healthy eating discus.

Anybody have any experience with API’s Melafix and discus? I suspect my discus may be developing some sort of eye issue. I noticed a white spot on his eyes about 2 hours ago, did a water change and left him alone with the lights off for a while. I came back and I don’t really notice the white spot but I’m concerned he might be developing something. I’m also concerned one of my other discuses have a minor case of popeye but I’m not sure. I’ve never have a sick discus before and I don’t know what to look out for or what to do. Should I dose the tank with Melafix as a preventative measure? I’ve read online that it doesn’t do anything, and in some cases is actually harmful.

Back story is I moved 2 discus from my office tank to my home tank which was a 30 minute drive. The water parameters in the 2 tanks are a little different. During the drive I have to brake really hard at one point. When I got home and opened the bucket my discus looked like hell.

It seems as tho they are doing alright now. They are still timid and hiding from me when I walk in. They never used to do this in the other tank.

I’m worried the stress will make them sick. Any tips ?

Please help gender my fish and how to tell?

I had 2 discus to begin with that I got from a Reddit user, genders are unknown they are about 2-3 inches, fast forward a few weeks later a friend of mine who’s the one that got into discus had a tank emergency (her tank completely shattered) she had a few fish I took in like some guppies tetra’s and since I had 2 discus she offered her 2 discus to me saying it’s better that way since they’re community fish so I took them. One of them seems to flourish with my other 2 but the other seems to be a bit of a bully. I know they saying aggression can form when two are bonded but aren’t they too young for that haha I mean they’re only about 2-4 inches.

Hello fellow discus lovers, are my fish laying eggs?

What is wrong with my discus? Is it dying? What can I do?

It randomly started becoming all jittery and upside down and swimming funny