dre
07-03-2021, 12:53 PM
Hello my name is Andre and i am from Germany.
I am 4 weeks into my discus project and i thought i had it planned well and all went well but i am running into some issues for wich i find the right section and post some questions.
Living in Germany, i went for stendker discus as you can imagine.
I went for the smallest (cheapest), wich ich somehow regret after 4 weeks.
Smalles available size means 5cm or 2inch
Let me show you quick the tank, little less then 50gal/180liter
This tank is just the raising tank lets say, once the group would outgrow the tank there will be a bigger one.
Filtration is done with 2 eheim canisters, one proffesional one classic, the classic has a mechanic prefilter from sera attached to the loop.
Also i run a K1 bioreactor internal that comes in a spongefilter style.
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This pictures are very early pics. Oh and as you see i got i varity of strains because its very hard to decide when you buy from stendker.
Well i edit this welcome post since i do not find the real bang on topic section tbh. Along with this come mor pics wich is a good thing for you as well i think.
All from the begin, 11 stendker discus
5 german wonder
3 kobalt
3 marlboro red
the german wonders beeing noticable smaller in size but this was no issue
To be fair i was kind of celebrating success, when after lil more then 4 weeks, finally, problems come up.
I was noticing that some grow very rapid and some do not, but i didnt pay too much attention because everyone was feeding quite happy on the stendker food.
But i saw that one of the red one was claiming top position, not a bad thing for me i was prepared of establishing hacking order and so.
I spread the food out the entire tank, but i think that only trained the red one that he has to guard the whole tank instead of the food plot, no kidding.
Finally i have 2 losses ( the ones i thought grow slow) they might not grew at all and beeing bullied certainly did not help.
So from the list above you can scratch off 1 marlboro red and 1 german wonder wich are not alive anymore...sad but true.
I sepperated the one that now chases every other discus around, it does not even matter if food is in the tank or if i am near.
He constantly pushes every other discus in the corners.
With the bully seperated through a acrylic piece, the others atleast come out of heater corner again and show somewhat normal hacking order aggression and only around food.
So i know my options are small and risky...
Put more discus, best would be 4 in his size or even slightly bigger...
What i find difficult to decide and get my head around is: Do i let it run, and loose more fish that become unhappy, or do i order some replacements +2 extra to help establishing a group one more time. AND do i end up in more mess when buying more fish, this is what the human brain would tell you. Is it? :D
Enjoy the beautiful stendker juvis..and thank you for your help.
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I am 4 weeks into my discus project and i thought i had it planned well and all went well but i am running into some issues for wich i find the right section and post some questions.
Living in Germany, i went for stendker discus as you can imagine.
I went for the smallest (cheapest), wich ich somehow regret after 4 weeks.
Smalles available size means 5cm or 2inch
Let me show you quick the tank, little less then 50gal/180liter
This tank is just the raising tank lets say, once the group would outgrow the tank there will be a bigger one.
Filtration is done with 2 eheim canisters, one proffesional one classic, the classic has a mechanic prefilter from sera attached to the loop.
Also i run a K1 bioreactor internal that comes in a spongefilter style.
131586131587
This pictures are very early pics. Oh and as you see i got i varity of strains because its very hard to decide when you buy from stendker.
Well i edit this welcome post since i do not find the real bang on topic section tbh. Along with this come mor pics wich is a good thing for you as well i think.
All from the begin, 11 stendker discus
5 german wonder
3 kobalt
3 marlboro red
the german wonders beeing noticable smaller in size but this was no issue
To be fair i was kind of celebrating success, when after lil more then 4 weeks, finally, problems come up.
I was noticing that some grow very rapid and some do not, but i didnt pay too much attention because everyone was feeding quite happy on the stendker food.
But i saw that one of the red one was claiming top position, not a bad thing for me i was prepared of establishing hacking order and so.
I spread the food out the entire tank, but i think that only trained the red one that he has to guard the whole tank instead of the food plot, no kidding.
Finally i have 2 losses ( the ones i thought grow slow) they might not grew at all and beeing bullied certainly did not help.
So from the list above you can scratch off 1 marlboro red and 1 german wonder wich are not alive anymore...sad but true.
I sepperated the one that now chases every other discus around, it does not even matter if food is in the tank or if i am near.
He constantly pushes every other discus in the corners.
With the bully seperated through a acrylic piece, the others atleast come out of heater corner again and show somewhat normal hacking order aggression and only around food.
So i know my options are small and risky...
Put more discus, best would be 4 in his size or even slightly bigger...
What i find difficult to decide and get my head around is: Do i let it run, and loose more fish that become unhappy, or do i order some replacements +2 extra to help establishing a group one more time. AND do i end up in more mess when buying more fish, this is what the human brain would tell you. Is it? :D
Enjoy the beautiful stendker juvis..and thank you for your help.
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