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    Hi Dan, nice to see you back with fish. I hear you on the FB groups.
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    Following along as I will be looking to grow some discus on myself soon. Can I ask when people refer to fish from Hans are we talking Stendker fish?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Second Hand Pat View Post
    Hi Dan, nice to see you back with fish. I hear you on the FB groups.
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnlfc View Post
    Following along as I will be looking to grow some discus on myself soon. Can I ask when people refer to fish from Hans are we talking Stendker fish?
    Yes, Hans only sells Stendker. He is the only U.S. importer of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dprais1 View Post
    Yes, Hans only sells Stendker. He is the only U.S. importer of them.
    Thanks that helps clear things up a bit. I’m based in UK but have decided to go with Stendker discus which seem to require different methods to Asian imports for instance. I recently read a lot of the documents available on the Stendker website which were very helpful.

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    Been about 10 weeks since I got these guys. 6 are runty and have been separated to be donated to a friend. He cares less about shape and size and just likes the colors.
    The other 9 are doing well, measured them today most are 4.5" to 5", I think two are 4" or so.

    I ditched the job filter due to noise and added a box filter with marbles and filter floss. Actually does a great job of polishing the water but is super noisy until i added a bit of poret foam to the output tube.

    Finally, realized I was grossly overfeeding. After looking at some old posts by John N and Eddie I cut back to pellets 2x a day and tubifex 1x a day. I'm opting for superior water quality over heavy feedings.

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    The 9 pictured look great! Bummer that 6 of 15 are not up to standard. Glad you have a suitable home for them

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    Thing I’ve found with my Hans discus is they grow at different times. My first groups now 2yrs old and of the 6 2 are 4.5 1 is 5.5” and 3 are better than 6”. Of the 3 smaller ones they were all at 3” when the bigger guys were at 6”. Little guys grew! Just took longer.

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    Very cool! Whats the red one next to the flachen?
    Amateur discuskeeper, Professional doofus

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    Marlboro red.

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