SOS! Discus refusing to eat !

[tau]

Its has been three days since I got my first two discus. Both of which have not been eating. The first two days, they just hid behind my sponge filter. Yesterday they finally came out to explored the tank. Today, they are pecking on the food, but both would not swallow it. Per advice from this board I have raised the tank temp to 88 f. The following foods have been fed: Tetra Bits, Ocean nutrition Formula 1, and Sally's frozen beef heart.

What am I doing wrong? ???

[Fisheyes]

Find out what they were eating from the first owner .
Are there any poopers on the bottom ( white or Black)?
Make sure your water perameters are ok .

I would go a little higher on the temp and add aquaium salt
1 tablespoon per 10 gal.

Higher temps --- make sure you have enough air for them
Fisheyes

[April]

Being theres only two..they will be shyer.
just keep trying and dont leave food sitting on the bottom. hopefully in a day or so they will come to the top begging.
you can turn your heat up to about 90 to get them eating.
you could also try frozen hikari bloodworms. and you can also find out what they were fed where you got them from.
how old are they? or what size?

[Fisheyes]

Good advice April.LOL

How are you today ?
Going to try and get in on the chat thing today.
Fisheyes

[April]

great fisheyes. think there will be a few who come. looking forward to it.
go to general and post your country . we shall overtake. lol.

[tau]

They are two marborol reds 2". I got them from Jeff at discusfarm.us. He told me that they were fed on these foods. I guess they are just shy like you said.

[Carol_Roberts]

Hi Tau:
Jeff has blackworms for sale. Go buy some and feed those until you get them eating good again. I also think they will eat better when you get your other two discus. Remember, this is one of the reasons I suggest you buy 6 discus. They feel much more secure and eat better in groups of 6 or more. When do you get the other discus?

[Keith.L]

Hello all,

Here comes a message from yet another newbie... Very informative site, by the way!

Fisheyes, in regards to feces color in white or black, what is the difference? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
-Keith 030623

[Fisheyes]

Well If there is feces on the bottom that would indicate someone is eating something .
If they are dark then I would suspect just a problem with getting use to the new homeand I would crank up the heat and add a little salt
If they were whitish I would suspect an intestinal problem like hex and treat accordingly

Fisheyes

[April]

the fact they came from jeff at discusfarm.us i would say they are healthy happy fish but just shy.
as carol said.they will be a happier group when you have more. you are getting them from the same source ihope or else quarantine time.

[discus_nw]

Two small discus will be very shy most of the time. Do you have any dither fish in another tank to add to the tank they are in? If you have no tetras, even a couple of cories would help the discus feel more secure. If you feed them cbw's, you may be asking for trouble in that they may only want to eat them from that point on. We won't even get into the other problems they have been known to cause.

[April]

I believe Jeff feeds cbw so they may respond to them well.
encourage them. id talk to jeff also. im sure he can assure you and direct you also.
lets not get into the food choices again..

[tau]

I just came back from Jeff's and got a pound of CBWs. I just put them in, hopefully this works. Thanks everyone.

[tau]

Discus NW, no I don't have any tank mates for them. But thanks for the suggestion.

[Carol_Roberts]

Yes, just a few wigling blackworms - that way you can tell it they have eaten them all.

Did Jeff tell you how to rinse them?