CincinnatiDeb
10-08-2003, 09:04 AM
Greetings Discus Lovers,
This morning, at a terrible 7:00am I found our coerulean blue on the floor under the aquarium. He happened to jump out the filter opening in the back which is about 3 cm larger than he is in the middle of the night. The fun part is we had just bought our discus a new 75 Gallon tank (more to come) and are planning on moving them this weekend.
So, among other things, we're in the market for at least 2 or 3 more discus. Here's some information that I hope will be useful to anyone who might have the time for some advice.
New Tank: 75 Gallon All Glass
Substrate: 75 lbs of standard small sized aquarium gravel (brown)
Planted: Yes, several small to medium amazons (from old aquarium)
Filtration: Marineland Canister Filter w/ Bio Wheel Pro System (Forget the model, but I can get it if needed, for a 90 Gallon aquarium, think it's the 350?)
Tank Mates: 3 Rummy Nosed tetras (from old aquarium), 1 12" High-Fin Tiger Pleco (from old aqarium), 1 1" Cory Catfish
Number, type, and size of discus: 1 6" Red Turquoise, Sex unknown, 2 8" Blue Diamonds, Sex unknown. (Only about 2 years old on the blue diamonds. The Turquoise we picked up from another hobbyist, unsure of it's age)
The new tank (we checked) has no openings which they could possibly fit through. The largest is where the bio wheels are on the back of the aquarium and is about 1 square inch. We've heard of discus jumping but it never occured to us that any of them would fit through the slit in the back.
The information we're hoping for is how many discus should/can we buy and obviously where to get them. We're in the Northern Kentucky area very close to Cinci and are willing to travel a bit (50 or so miles, give or take) to find discus. We have a strong preference to seeing the discus ourselves and choosing individual fish or buying from another hobbyist who just has too many to reasonably keep. Our discus are purely for the pleasure of having them with no intention of breeding them. They are pets and the loss of one is very sad for us. We take (well we thought we were) good care of them with careful water monitoring/changing and a diet that consists of live blackworms, beefheart, turkey heart (Discus delight), bloodworms (frozen and freeze-dried), and the rarely given pellet food.
Is there an advantage to buying more than 1 discus at a time?
How many can/should we buy?
Is there something we're not doing or doing wrong?
This morning, at a terrible 7:00am I found our coerulean blue on the floor under the aquarium. He happened to jump out the filter opening in the back which is about 3 cm larger than he is in the middle of the night. The fun part is we had just bought our discus a new 75 Gallon tank (more to come) and are planning on moving them this weekend.
So, among other things, we're in the market for at least 2 or 3 more discus. Here's some information that I hope will be useful to anyone who might have the time for some advice.
New Tank: 75 Gallon All Glass
Substrate: 75 lbs of standard small sized aquarium gravel (brown)
Planted: Yes, several small to medium amazons (from old aquarium)
Filtration: Marineland Canister Filter w/ Bio Wheel Pro System (Forget the model, but I can get it if needed, for a 90 Gallon aquarium, think it's the 350?)
Tank Mates: 3 Rummy Nosed tetras (from old aquarium), 1 12" High-Fin Tiger Pleco (from old aqarium), 1 1" Cory Catfish
Number, type, and size of discus: 1 6" Red Turquoise, Sex unknown, 2 8" Blue Diamonds, Sex unknown. (Only about 2 years old on the blue diamonds. The Turquoise we picked up from another hobbyist, unsure of it's age)
The new tank (we checked) has no openings which they could possibly fit through. The largest is where the bio wheels are on the back of the aquarium and is about 1 square inch. We've heard of discus jumping but it never occured to us that any of them would fit through the slit in the back.
The information we're hoping for is how many discus should/can we buy and obviously where to get them. We're in the Northern Kentucky area very close to Cinci and are willing to travel a bit (50 or so miles, give or take) to find discus. We have a strong preference to seeing the discus ourselves and choosing individual fish or buying from another hobbyist who just has too many to reasonably keep. Our discus are purely for the pleasure of having them with no intention of breeding them. They are pets and the loss of one is very sad for us. We take (well we thought we were) good care of them with careful water monitoring/changing and a diet that consists of live blackworms, beefheart, turkey heart (Discus delight), bloodworms (frozen and freeze-dried), and the rarely given pellet food.
Is there an advantage to buying more than 1 discus at a time?
How many can/should we buy?
Is there something we're not doing or doing wrong?