Can fish be discus food?

[gabloo]

I am wondering, if i can feed them salmon or any other type of fish by itself or mix with beefheart.

[dean9922]

I have done both.....strictly a fish diet including salmon and also a beefheart mixture and also a combo of the two.

[Skip]

eddie has a recipe for a seafood mix with not beefheart.. its pretty good

[gabloo]

Can you please link me to his post?


eddie has a recipe for a seafood mix with not beefheart.. its pretty good

[seanyuki]

No freshwater fish in yr seafood mixture.......

[gabloo]

O no freshwater fish? Why that? Is salmon freshwater fish?

[Skip]

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?69130-Super-Tuna-Salmon-mix-pictures&highlight=seafood+mix

[seanyuki]

Hey dude......yr first post..... so I said no freshwater fish......better search the forum for details

Can fish be discus food?

I am wondering, if i can feed them salmon or any other type of fish by itself or mix with beefheart.





O no freshwater fish? Why that? Is salmon freshwater fish?

[Skip]

Francis.. not sure what you are saying here.. :)

[Larry Bugg]

I think the majority of beefheart mixes I have seen include fish and or seafood. I have used salmon but most of the time I use Cod. I also use shrimp in mine.

[yim11]

O no freshwater fish? Why that? Is salmon freshwater fish?

Freshwater fish may carry disease/bacteria/parasites/etc that could potentially be passed on to the discus. A saltwater fish would not carry the same type of pathogens and the ones it might carry are usually not harmful to freshwater fish.

HTHs,
-jim

[ericatdallas]

Salmon should be fine, although they are anadromous which means they can do either fresh or salt water.

I usually stay with things like ocean perch or cod because they're pretty cheap and from the ocean.

[strawberryblonde]

Actually, salt water fish can contain pathogens just as readily as freshwater fish. I shudder just thinking about the time I bought some scrod for dinner years ago, only to find tiny worms in it when I opened the package....ugh.

I do use fish in my seafood mix. My discus love it and eat it as readily as they eat beefheart...and my mix is a lot less messy! I use salmon and perch or cod, depending on prices at the fish market that day.

[seanyuki]

+ 100......that's why I only use ocean fish and not freshwater fish.


Freshwater fish may carry disease/bacteria/parasites/etc that could potentially be passed on to the discus. A saltwater fish would not carry the same type of pathogens and the ones it might carry are usually not harmful to freshwater fish.

HTHs,
-jim

[zimmjeff]

All fish have worms some you just can't see well.

[ericatdallas]

I don't think it's whether they have parasites or not, it's whether said parasites are contagious. The theory behind using ocean/saltwater fish is that the pathogens adapted for them are not adapted to survive in a freshwater ecosystem or freshwater fish.

That's just a mitigation factor, because there are diseases that can go in both environments. They're just fewer.