Heckels - what to do?

[brianyam]

Before I took a break from fish to go work abroad, I pretty much had domestic discus. Coming back into the hobby, I wanted to get into wilds. So I bought a variety of them. I noticed the Heckels I bought are really tough. They get bullied allot by the other discus, don't eat as much and just generally don't look as happy. While the other wilds I have are thriving, eating like pigs and growing allot. What should I do? Should I move out the heckels into their own tank? I feed only dry food, should I feed them food like frozen blood worms? I alread lost two heckels out of 5 the past few months. Thanks.
Brian

[nikond70s]

i just bought some nhmunda heckels like 3 weeks ago. i been feeding them live blackworms and they eat a LOT and are getting thick. urs are prolly weak and needs to be fatten up to compete with the others. they are wild after all. i would recommend feeding them live food like blackworms to fatten them up first.

[brianyam]

Cool, thanks. I guess I should take them out and be in their own tank. Feed them worms, seafood mix.

[vicdiscus]

That is great feedback and help to solves! Thank you for sharing.

[nevsfish]

hi from my experience in keeping heckels they require much differant water conditions then other wilds .they would do better in a heckel only tank with a low ph around 5 to 6 .also heckels dont handle stress to well so they need there own tank as soon as possible.regards lawrence

[zchauvin]

i just bought some nhmunda heckels like 3 weeks ago. i been feeding them live blackworms and they eat a LOT and are getting thick. urs are prolly weak and needs to be fatten up to compete with the others. they are wild after all. i would recommend feeding them live food like blackworms to fatten them up first.

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