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A few years back, I bought one tiny jar of each of the White Crane pellets (they have different formulas for enhancing different colors), because they had the HUGEST concentrations of color...

Seachem Discus Buffer is phosphate-based. Do NOT open the bottle, keep your receipt and go back to the shop to exchange it for the Seachem Acid Buffer. Seachem Acid Buffer is not phosphate-based.

Would there be sufficient expertise here to help with questions about other pets other than aquatic ones? Apart from discus, I also keep pet parrots (Amazons and Macaws).

Using an albino fish to breed with a pigeon blood derived fish might theoretically result in some fish with no peppering, although all the fish I have seen bred so far using this method have very...

Yup, discus gobble up frozen bloodworms! My discus especially like the Hikari brand of frozen bloodworms. You could put the thawed bloodworms into a worm-feeder and add a few drops of Sera Fishtamin...

Would you be able to put her into her own hospital tank?

If the discus is a Pigeon Blood derived strain, it could be peppering. One theory is that with the Pigeon Blood mutation, the vertical bars were removed, but the potential for the pigments to be...

The only concern I have is that your water's pH is on the low side, with quite low water hardness as well, meaning that there could very well be a high danger of acid crash due to there being very...

Submicronic filtration is a kind of mechanical filtration only. It is good for removing the tiny particles that can make the water look cloudy, muddy or dirty. Because of the tiny size of the pores,...

Yup and the fish are very nice too!

I believe the answer depends on what you want to do with your discus and discus tanks.

My plans include one large planted tank for displaying some fully grown adult discus in a fabulous Amano-like...

I think when most people say "water ageing", they mean the process by which we remove harmful substances like chlorine or chloramine from the water.

Town water used to be treated with chlorine to...

I like how ladyred has described these people as thugs, rather than as St George supporters.

People such as these are not supportive in any way and therefore should not be called supporters.
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I believe all medications have their side effects. Perhaps your discus were sick or perhaps they were just taking their time to get used to a completely new environment. Maybe the medications helped,...

Wow, it takes a lot of courage to post pics of things going wrong. But that will help the rest of us SO MUCH MORE to learn from your mistakes. Thanks!

Why do you think your tank went so cloudy...

I believe that when the optimum conditions are present for plant growth, ie, plenty of CO2, plenty of light and plenty of nutrients, the plants can photosynthesize to the max, producing even more O2...

ladyred,

Can you confirm or disprove the theory that the red golden diamond males are red all over while the females don't have the red on the head? Or the other way around?

And yeah, we need...

What do you all think of the plans for building a desalination plant in Sydney to supply the city with water?

Is this good or bad news for the discus keeper in Sydney?

I believe Israel has a...

Not sure how long, sorry.

The best way to keep the sponge filter "alive" is to move it into the new tank together with the fish, keeping it turned on all the time, of course.

Then you can take...

If the sponge filter is kept turned on and the water is constantly circulating through it, then the beneficial bacteria inside the sponge should have enough oxygen and therefore be OK.

Of course,...

After seeing Ben's superspawning pair of Blue Diamonds in the Photo Album thread, I'm curious as to how many batches of babies a breeding pair of discus can raise in one year.

How long do the...

When you say "empty", do you mean still filled with water but without any fish and/or plants, or do you mean empty as in completely drained of water and allowed to dry?

Not only rabbits and cane toads but also useful when culling fry

I'm planning to save on heating costs by sharing my body warmth with the discus.

I LUV RING LEOPARDS!

Can't wait to see all these fish at your shop!!