DISCUS KILL

[azpunisher24]

HEY EVERYONE...IM JUST WONDERING WHY EVERY TIME I PUT NEONS ON MY DISCUS TANK..THEY END UP MISSING.

IVE NOTICED THAT WHEN I TROW THEM IN MY DISCUS QUICKLY BEGIN TO PECK AT THEM...


WHY DOES THIS HAPPEND??

AND CAN IT STOP FROM HAPPENING??

[scottthomas]

If the neons are small enough discus will eat them or wound them while trying. Maybe try to find some larger cardinal tetras for your tank. I once had a large group of cardinals in my discus tank. The discus chased them for the first day and then ignored them after that. I think the cardninals fare better with higher temps too.

[mathao]

discus loves live swimming food, thats what the neons are to them.

[Darrell Ward]

Neons probably won't survive at discus temps for long periods of time anyway. They tend to die off one at a time at higher temps. I used to have a big pigeon female that loved to crush cardinals, and then drop them. I don't think she really saw them as food, she just enjoyed breaking their spine. You would see dead cardinals in the tank that had this ^ shape. On another note, it's cosidered rude and shouting to type with locked caps on the forum. Just so you know. :)

[azpunisher24]

sorry i do apologize. ;)

so i guess my dream of having neons/cardinals with my discus is over lol

thanks for the info guys :D

[birdog]

sorry i do apologize. ;)

so i guess my dream of having neons/cardinals with my discus is over lol

thanks for the info guys :D



I wouldn't think your dream should be over, I had the fortune of buying good quality cardinals, started off with 16 of them, then I lost 4 within the first couple of days, I believe they were eaten, but then the remaining 12 had been doing great they even grew a little, the discus are not interested in them anymore, as a matter of fact they are the more numerous of the type of fish I have and the most ignored by discus, plecos and rams.

Lost one yesterday, small chance I siphoned it out on the WC, I think the canister filter sucked it up while sleeping, they are very strong swimmers otherwise, so I lost 5 in 2 months, I don't foresee any of them disappearing anymore.

My advice would be, getting a few more than you want because you will lose some, someone said that cardinals are like socks, you lose them without a trace.

Regards
David

P.S. Extremely cool to see a school of cards with a school of discus.

[fishorama]

I hope you quarantine the tetras before adding them