Originally Posted by
Paul Sabucchi
Thanks, when I first started lurking on discus forums a few years ago I was quite shocked by the apparent "cultural difference" between this forum and the local ones here in Italy and, as far as I can see, also what goes on in other European countries, where putting you have discus in a tank with substrate, ornaments and plants is the majority of cases. Towards someone who dares to say that he keeps discus in a BB tank, feeding plenty and changing a lot of water the attitude ranges from condescending (I don't like the look of a bare tank) to hostile (it is not natural keeping fish in a barren environment, they need wood and floating plants to shelter them from the light or they get stressed, they need to be kept at a pH of 6 or less... and so on). Personally I think the proof of the pudding is always in the eating and that the general consensus on this forum is far less militant.