Dither Fish for Discus?????

[RedneckDaveAb]

Do they need em?

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Dave :bandana:

[AmberC]

Dave,
No they dont HAVE to have them but the purpose is to make the discus feel a little more comfortable. When the discus see all those little fish swimming around, they know there are no predators (at least this is what I read a long time ago) but there are plenty of people who keep just discus in the tank.

Myself... I keep them because I like to see good variety of fish in the tank. I want the eye drawn to the discus, but I want something else to look at too and it just seems more "natural" to me to see other fish swimming around with the discus :)

HTH
Amber

[RedneckDaveAb]

Amber, what type of dither fish do you have for your discus?

Dave

[lhforbes12]

Dave,
Cardinal Tetras, Rummynose Tetras, Rams are all good choices

[AmberC]

Amber, what type of dither fish do you have for your discus?

Dave

Well... I dont have the discus anymore.. but the dithers I had were:

longfin serpae tetras
cardinal tetras
rummynose tetras
longfin danios
blue rams
and gold rams

HTH
Amber

[architect1]

I have
yellow plecos
brisal nose
Cardinal tetra’s
siamese algae eaters

and thinking about fancy tail guppies.

[Debbie]

I would stay away from the serapes, they are fin nippers.

[wheeler]

it's only been a couple of weeks but i put a couple of killifish in my tanks and they seems to get along in there just fine. actually the discus and the rams seems to square off a lot more. the killi's seem to just ignore everyone else.