Please tell me the procedure and the medicine to perform the deworming my discus fish.My fish are a regular habitant of live foods like BLOOD WORM and TUBERFLEX.
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When you see white feces are present in the tank, and the fish will not eat
then use:
Metronidazole B.P. Tablets – 200mg
Dosage: 2 tablets for 50 gallons water.
Change water and repeat the treatment everyday for 5 days.
When white feces disappeared and see black feces, internal parasites cleared
Do longfins breed true? ifnot do any of the offspring have longfins? how did they get theyre longfins?Are they hormone treated?
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The long-fin discus breed true. The offspring have long fins.
They are not hormone treated then become long fin.
After 5 generations of selective breeding then only get this long-fin strain.
Why my own made discus burger make the water so cloudy? When i put ready made discus burger from lfs it was not cloud the water, it even still in good shape after the discus broke it into pieces..
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After you have made the burger, it should be put into freezer to be frozen before feeding the discus. They will not cloud the water. Make sure you don’t overfeed them.
I have a few discus of size 3 to 4 inches. Recently I have only been feeding them with pellets like Tetrabits for discus. Do I also need to feed them with live food like bloodworm or maybe frozen bloodworm?
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If you feel troublesome to feed them live food, then you can just feed them with tetrabits if they eat. But if you think to breed them for fun, I suggest you feed them live food.
Frozen food like bloodworm is very handy. You can get them in aquarium shop.
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