Consistent clean water is the key! Not too many here will disagree Congrats on your results, care to share some pics?
I am raising discus for last 7 months. My Water PH is 8.2. The discus are foong great and have grown from 2.5 inches to almost 6 inches.
I feel that high or low PH does not matter. What matter is the consistency of the PH.
What is your say?
Consistent clean water is the key! Not too many here will disagree Congrats on your results, care to share some pics?
I wouldn't say it doesn't matter but it isn't crucial with domestics. However, lower ph can curb illness and discus would most likely prefer acidic ph below 7.
Sorry for changing the topic.. but just now i witnessed something about my yellow checkerboard..
I just tossed a single piece of hikari tropical food stick. Its quite big in size. The yellow discus saw some curiosity and then swallow the whole food stick. After that i tossed some 5-6 sticks, and five of my discuses just devoured on them. I really did not anticipate that they would like to eat those big sticks so much.
Will it be healthy to continue feeding these floating hikari tropical food sticks ?
Stable pH is more important. Lower pH however helps with nitrates, since ammonia stays at ammonium below a pH of around 6.5. Ammonium is less toxic to the fish. At higher pH, nitrates are geometrically more toxic to the fish. Also lower pH helps with hatch rates if you're getting a lot of eggs with fungus. Since the lower pH helps with that and bacteria.