First, welcome to the forum! Now on to the discus. That tank is okay for a group of 6 adults, so i would recommend buying 6-7 juvies to grow out. Definitely start with 3inch+ fish, anything smaller will require multiple water changes a day to get them a good start, would highly recommend 4inch+ from personal experience if you can afford it. I would recommend staying with a bare bottom tank if you want to grow them out. It doesn't sound appealing but believe me, when you've experienced how easy it is to maintain you wont care about how it looks . Also lots of water changes. 50% a day is a good number to go by. That brings up aging your water, which you can find info on in the stickies if you dont already know. Lastly their diet. Make sure you do your research on good foods with high protein, that's one reason to do daily water changes, since you are feeding such high protein foods it can foul up the water pretty fast. To put it simple,
1. Read all the stickies and use the search engine to help answer your questions.
2. Get your tank set up, water treated, aged, and heated.
3. Get your filter set up, start your fishless cycle.
4. After the cycle plop in your discus and start the water changes and feeding .
All this and more can be found in the stickies!