Originally Posted by
Kaushal
Hello everyone.
i am new to the hobby.
I will try to provide as much information as i can of my little knowledge about fish keeping.
I have kept pigeons all my life and very successful in keeping them, i have applied the same thought of husbandry in keeping discus.
My tank is 50 gallon, its been around 5 months since i have started keeping discus.
Tank i have is from a friend of fine, who wants to get rid of the hobby.
when i got the tank, i searched web and information about keeping fish.
the only fish that i loved the most was discus.
the tank that i bought had 1 2.5 inch discus, 1 parrot, 10 pink zebras, 1 danison, 4 zebras normal. some other 1 or 2 no of small fishes.
i just wanted to keep discus even though i was a beginner in hobby so i read some posts about keeping discus.
after a small research of 1 week.
i decided to keep discus,
so i removed all the substrate from tank, gave away all the fishes except pink 10 zebras, 1 danison and 1 discus.
I installed an external filter, 2 automatic heaters in the tank, 1 temperature meter, 1 led light strip, aereator.
and removed all other things from the tank including background scenery.
next day i bought 1 more discuss, which survived only 1 week and died.
after a week, the tank was very clean and started attracting me,
2-3 days later, i bought four 3.5 inch discus.
After few days the 2.5 inch discus died. I bought API freshwater test kit, this day.
Checked all the parameters.
tank started doing well until i introduced a plant in the tank, it is a plant found in india, which dont require sand to grow.
After a week 2 of my discus died as if they suddenly got poisoned.
i checked all the parameter, temp. everything was fine,
so the only thing that i changed was plant, i removed it.
Now i had 2 discus only. after 2-3 months, now i have introduced 6 more discuss of the size 5 inches, since my 2 other discuss are of same size now.
Presently
My tank is 50 gallon, with external filter, water changes is 10% everyday, 50% almost after every 3 days, i feed tetra bits & dried blood worms to my fish, Ph is 6.5, hardness is 90, amonia, nitrite, nitrate level keeps on going up & down, since some time my mother overfeed the fish & tank when i am out for my buisness tours.
I have now 8 discus in tank, 8 neon tetras, 1 danison, 1 sucker cat, 2 pink zebras.
Any suggestion is welcome that can improve my hobby.