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rinokaz - 8 years ago

Beautiful! What is your tank size? How often you make a water change and in what amount?? Thx

Add dy - 9 years ago

how to keep pH low

Tony Gonzalez - 8 years ago

Use driftwood, it naturally brings down the PH and keeps it there.

Sofia Krylova - 9 years ago

Getting my first one tomorrow to joing my angel fish. Thank you for a great video xxxxx

Nick Williams - 9 years ago

Hi what heater do you use in this tank? I have a 300w heater in my 3ft tank but I struggle to get the water temp above 29c. Is it best to use 2 heaters?

rinokaz - 8 years ago

Nick Williams // I use 2 heaters. Just in case if one of them will not work and also they do help each other to keep proper temperature.

Darren Lee - 9 years ago

Hi how big a tank does 1 or 2 discus need? Also your video gives me confidence to start discus keeping

Jay's Aquariums - 8 years ago

Always buy more than 4 or 5, they are a shoaling fish that need groups for security and they establish a pecking order so if u only have 2 the more dominant one will constantly pick on the weaker one and 1 it will not have a sense of security. A 55 gallon is a nice size for 6 adults grown from young

utsuriman - 10 years ago

Hi How R They In 2014? Update ?

ROSHAN verma - 10 years ago

How's the filter at the corner

ROSHAN verma - 10 years ago

How's the filter at the corner

Maurice Aquariums - 10 years ago

Looved the vid mate. I just got myself 4 juvenile Discus & it's my first attempt at the lil guys. Ur vid helped sooo much new questions I had. You got a sub :D

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Tony Ngo - 11 years ago

Very nice

Trevor Mercer - 11 years ago

Best way to keep ph at a decent level for discus is go buy some peat moss balls and put them in your filter.They last months and you can also add bog wood.Youll have no problems keeping discus in a ph of between 6.5 right up to 7.2.

tomas dx - 11 years ago

My discus Refuse to eat flake food or pellets. What can I do ? Please help :(

Darren Arnett - 11 years ago

Nice video. Scratch the rain water. Some places will be better than others but as rain water falls it picks up contaminants on the way down. Not a risk in willing to take. Ime. good luck with the discus!! Some nice ones

captainhelmet69 - 11 years ago

Just from a local garden centre

Happiness is a fish Tank - 11 years ago

Hi captain, I really enjoy your video, Just a question, where do you buy that tuffer rock?

captainhelmet69 - 11 years ago

To measure it you can use test strips but there not the most accurate I use a chemical formula to test input some of the water and the chemical in a tube and it colours up to tell you the ph. Ways of hanging the ph you can do it naturally eg adding certain woods to make it more acidic or certain rocks make it more alkaline hope that helps

Metalfishead - 11 years ago

How do you lower your ph and how do u measure it?

D GW - 11 years ago

Thats a pretty nice set-up. Cheers from Canada, thanks for the advice. You are correct, discus aren't as hard as people think. Lots of water changes is my best advice to new discus keepers. That white one is fantastic! I keep cory cats and 4 pictus cats in my tank and they get along fine.

paul lee - 11 years ago

Thanks gud info but the amount of food u gave them in 1 feed ??? Is that how much I require ??? Please reply SOS

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Shaff1708 - 11 years ago

plants help to regularize the pH of water... they are important and helpful when having discus

Shaff1708 - 11 years ago

hehe thats what i do as well :D and it works well

scalau2 - 12 years ago

i have been keeping tropical fish for 20 years or more this is great advice well done mate

captainhelmet69 - 12 years ago

thanks to clean my sand and get the uneaten food i quite often use a net create a whirlpool by moving it about then food then tends to come up out of the sand and i just net it from there with the food if there is any left after 5 mins or so net it up

Krista Farrelly - 12 years ago

how do you clean the sand please and how often also about feeding i never know if am over feeding or not or how much i get told in different places different answers lol many thanks beautiful fish

captainhelmet69 - 12 years ago

no dont use a buffer had problems where it was even lower i have put in the two pieces of tuffer rock to get up to where it is i have never used chemicals in my tank and i want to keep it that way