Keeping Discus in a pond

[MississaugaJohn]

Hi

Here in Canada during the summer months I take some of my tropical fish out to my pond ( platties, pleco) between may-Oct . When I take them out they are much bigger and their colour is amazing from all the live food they must be eating in the pond ( I dont need to feed them at all)

I was wondering has anyone ever had Discus in their backyard pond?

[Carol_Roberts]

Yes, Beth (from Louisanna I think) tried them in a pool with some angels. As I recall the angels fared better than the discus . . . .

[diskboy]

i would go with carol because how would you keep a pond at 82-84 degrees which discus like?

[qoperator]

A big A$$ heater! LOL

[goheel]

I would think that if you live in the South, the water would get into the 80s range easily in the summer.

[fishfarm]

It'd be easy here in Georgia, I'd just worry about the Blue Herons, they cleaned us out of koi, Ken

[Westie]

I've has success with koi and goldfish, even when we've hit freezing. I don't think i'd do discus outside unless I had sooo many I'd think of culling second.

[wheeler]

just get yourself an industrial size boiler unit to heat the pond to the correct temp and have at it...LOL.

i don't think it would work too well up here in the great north. even in the evenings in the summer, it does still get a little chilly.

[Ryan]

In the coming weeks I might be pond-raising some angelfish... or, pool-raising, rather :)

I'm in Florida and the weather down here is great for outdoor vats and pools if you can keep raccoons and birds (and lizards and spiders and...) away. If I remember correctly from Beth's experiment a few years ago, she was a little disappointed with the growth of the discus, but her angels did amazing.

Ryan