My 75gal wild discus tank

Thanks for the good comments! :P

I will be making some food for them soon...i hope i can see some more colour in them! right now they dont have a very varied diet... mostly bloodworms and flakes :roll:

i'l update soon

I have a problem... that i have had for a long time actualy... but it's really started to worry me...

3 out of my 4 discus really are starting to get fat (new home made food, they are starting to like it). They look great and all... but all 3 of them are always pushing in a corner the other 4. I never did see any marks on the little fella... but they wont let him eat... he's starting to be very skinny now...

any suggestions?

tank is heavily planted as you can see...i doubt changing the scape will do anything... there is a strong hierarchy between them..

update...

See how they are all arround him... he's in the top corner
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Please any suggestions??

feeding at night maybe?

adding more plants in the front to give him more cover?

Thanks

-Bruno

actualy looking at my fish, i think i might have a pair in the group... its actualy the same 2 fish ramming the other 2 in the glass... one of the 2 they dont attack him as much since he's the biggest of the bunch.

That big fella doesnt want to share is corner with the other one tho..... :x

what do i do?

make a corner wich is more attractive to a pair to breed in calm? i got plenty of plants to do this...maybe i could isolate them using plants...

might look good if i use the wood appropriatly...!

would this work?

i dont have another tank for a pair..

The pair will soon take over a corner of the tank and settle down. If you like, you can put a branch of driftwood in a corner for them to spawn against.

As far as the skinny one, it might be a good idea to treat for internal worms. Most wild discus seem to have some kind of worms, especially if he is eating well and not putting on weight.

Ask your Local Fish Shop for something to treat round worms and thread worms, then a week or two later treat them for tapeworms. (You need two different kinds of medication)

Nice Setup. :)

I've got levimasole and metronidasole already... They have been treated for worms already...

He is'nt eating... or barely... they wont let him!

Thanks for the nice comments

hopefully they do settle down... not many options... might try to rearrange the setup.. again..

-Bruno

Well, here is a little update..

baught 2 more wild discus. They both died within 2 weeks. Then two weeks later lost the one i was talking about earlier...

now I have 2 really nice fish, and the third is looking like the last one that died... I am trying to get rid of him....

tank will be completly re-done next week... i have just finished a new stand

I will come and update soon!

better to keep a bigger batch Bruno, I've seen your tank before. Pity about the dead fish. I have seven very aggressive fish but it gets spread around, when I had four, one of them was starting to get stressed.

I've never heard of anyone that has had discus eat their apisto's but if they are pinching your emp tetras, I'd believe it!

I am not sure about the apistos...

I have recently baught 3 more... and again... they disappeared... maybe they died or something but i couldnt find any corpse... maybe the corys took care of that... not sure...

for now I am planning on keeping the 2 discus alone... they are really nice together and they are the best of the bunch anyway... Never fight...

I want to go buy a 12 or so other cory sterbai... I would have 18... love those little guys!

OR more discus... not sure... they are getting kinda expensive. I guess we will find out soon enought!

-Bruno