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Long time no post. Are there specific trade names for those discus that are BRIGHT green (with very little striping) and bright yellow (usually with more striping.

I have room for one...

Thanks, Ladyred...

Ok, so there are now 5 discus. All of them seem to be within about a year of one another in age, but the largest is probably a good 4 1/2-5" while the smallest is in the ballpark of about 2 1/2,...

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So as you may remember I'm still a bit of a plebe when it comes to discus. So, I had that one discus who was really runty, not even so small, just sort way down the heirarchy and kind of...

I was putting some new material in my eheim cannister filter and (besides a big messup that resulted in mucho spilled water) I've been unable to get the siphone going since. It will start up, the...

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That runt I've mentioned before has been hiding extra lately and this morning I noticed his very movements are lethargic... he's not paddling, his face is gaunt, and his scales are...

So, I was doing a WC on my 29 gal. marine yesterday when my girlfriend accidentally knocked over the hood I had placed on the floor. She broke the glass casing that the flourescent light sits on.
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I named my BGK "Bowie" because, well, he's a knife. But also because there's a Phish song called "David Bowie" that I like a lot.

I named my 11-12" pleco Cheney 'cause he's mean and hides a lot...

Yeah, I pretty much name all my discus...

Ok, with that in mind, I am going to add a 5th discus to my 55. They're all about 2-3 long right now, pretty young. I've noticed some mild sparring between the two big males, and the female is...

As a marine and discus keeper, I would say discus is a step below saltwater on the overall difficulty level... but that said, I don't even want to think about breeding yet (note my post in water...

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So my (tank bred) discus are in a 55 that until the last few days was hanging out around 7.1 PH. The smallest in the group was a little sluggish, so I've lowered it to about 6.8-6.9 and...

Hey all. Would you say it's best to have an odd or even number of discus "schooling" in the tank? For purposes of heirarchies/lowered agression, etc.

They've all been together since the start (and together at my LFS)...

Sometimes they swim top-to-bottom, with the timid one hanging out almost on the substrate, the next smallest above him/her/...

Hi all. I currently have 4 juvenile discus in a 55 gallon tank... I see a distinct pecking order, but one of them seems to be so far down it is outright isolated. I hides a lot, spend most of its...

Hey all, when I established my discus tank I bought 2 swords to start a bit ogf a "garden" in the tank... one sward sprouted offspring almost immediately... but the other has a clipped stem where it...

Hey, buddy. You should check out some of the ridiculous deals they have on tanks and supplies in the Indiana on eBay. I have no idea why, either, but whenever I'm sort of browsing (not like I can...

As lovers of the water and its life, I thought y'all would want to see what's going on right in your neighborhood.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/claptrap-substantiated

Some...

A piece of lead? 1) what exactly do you mean 2) isn't lead in water like, really, really bad? Isn't that how th Roman Empire fell... and wouldn't it be awful for discus?

Well, in this 2 weeks I've owned them, I've become rather anal. I change about 20% of the tank's water every other day... I would do more but I don't want to mess up the discus or gouramis stress...

Thanks friend... it's been done, and you guys won't believe how quickly the new plants grew towards the light. "Phototropism" I believe it's called... they were growing parallel to the substrate but...

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I noticed on one of my swords there's a particular outgrowth that has what look like bulbs, small leavesm, and even roots. Currently, they're running up a shoot that's long enough to come...

I put a feeder block in my community tank and the water was gross and pastey when I got back, after only about 4-5 days. Also, I think one my swordtail just refused to eat from it anyway, and got...

In a simpler tank containing discus/goramis, two powerful standard filters (an aquafin 70 and an eheim 90) any advice on what I can use to fertilize the swords I've just put in there?

Also, with...

Hey all! It's the American here...

I just wanted you to know that after a month or so of following your advice, and several months of planning, I now am the proud owner of 4 new discus in my 55...