Show us your monster size Discus Fish

[BODYDUB]

I really will work on getting the other 3 jumbo's measured this week with some nice tank shots of them too. The flachen is about 8.5" and the Brilliant Turq (my "runty" one) is just over 8". Oh gosh, forgot to mention the FlachenSS! He's 8" too. LOL

Wow, all your fish in your pics are 2yrs or younger and are huge. I wish I could see fish of that size in person! Looks like it doesn't take someone from Germany of Asia to raise a huge fish.............

[Allwin]

Hey Toni, beautiful fishes.. What u normally feed/how many times?

[Kal-El]

They just got 2 feedings of variety flakes, 2 feedings of frozen beefheart and 2 feedings of FDBW's per day when they were growing out. I also did 2 water changes per day and that was it. I was as shocked as anyone when they didn't stop growing at 1 year old and continued to grow for another 6 months!

Here you go from her old grow out thread... If i recall Toni can correct me if I'm wrong but she uses the regular frozen San Francisco bay Beef Heart Plus... no special mix...

[Skip]

Hey Toni, beautiful fishes.. What u normally feed/how many times?

Go to my post number two.. the link takes u to her thread . Read it..

U will see the key to the growth was 2 x daily water changes

[strawberryblonde]

So true Warlock! It wasn't magic food, it was just a lot of water changes.

I thought that they were done growing at 18 months when I took the pics and made the thread. I was wrong...again. <sigh>

I will have owned them for 2 years in April and they are still growing very slowly. Hopefully they truly are done now??!! Heck the younger Stendkers are still growing like weeds and then I've got my 10 month old Golden's to worry about. Gonna hafta buy a bigger tank soon.

[Kal-El]

I'm surprise we don't have more hobbyist with 8+" discus. Show/share/brag, about your awesome monster discus or have seen on the web/in person.

[Allwin]

Hello Kale, I have been to Chicago Discus few months back and they have some healthy 8+ inches ones..

[Mary10]

WOW WOW WOW !!!! What beautiful fish !!!! Thank you for sharing with us .

[lipadj46]

I'm surprise we don't have more hobbyist with 8+" discus. Show/share/brag, about your awesome monster discus or have seen on the web/in person.

I think 8"+ discus are just not that common. I'm happy if a couple out of a group reach 7"

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[Kal-El]

I think 8"+ discus are just not that common. I'm happy if a couple out of a group reach 7"

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That's the beauty of it thus they are consider monster size Discus fish

[Kal-El]

Hello Kale, I have been to Chicago Discus few months back and they have some healthy 8+ inches ones..

I've been there to Josie many times and she does have large discus but they look more 7"-7.5". Josie will have to confirm this or maybe when I go pickup my pre-order fish I'll take a tape measure and ask Josie to allow me to measure her biggest fish...

[0Dgreen]

She has a HUGE tiger turquoise in her 300 gallon that i offer to buy every weekend but she refuses to sell it lol...i'd say its at least 8" if not more. Biggest fish in her tank of adults.

[timmy82]

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Alenquer domestic strain
Size largest 20 cm + Haven't disturbed them too much to get final measurements
Supplied Discus Planaterium QLD Australia
Age ? they still grew a little while DP had them for 6 months at a guess 3 - 4 years

Feed beef heart mix & FDBW they pigs just about eat your hand off. Only had them 2 months.

[Kal-El]

She has a HUGE tiger turquoise in her 300 gallon that i offer to buy every weekend but she refuses to sell it lol...i'd say its at least 8" if not more. Biggest fish in her tank of adults.

You might be right on that turq... I forgot about that one. The one might be 8" hopefully Josie could confirm or ill talk Josie into measuring the fish.

[lipadj46]

That's the beauty of it thus they are consider monster size Discus fish

Yes I was saying we are not seeing many because they are not that many. You might think you have an 8" discus until you measure it and realize how big 8" is. The only ones I've seen pics of are Toni's. I think Hans had some jumbos he had pics of on rulers but I don't think they were 8".