Tropical Fish Discus Forum Questions Answered!

Archive for December, 2006

Water condition

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

I just set up my tank for discus, every thing seems to be right, the only thing I can’t do is a lower PH, the PH in my tank water is always around 7.0 to 7.2, I have treated the water with PH down
products, but it’s hard. What do I have to do or to take in consideration to get the right PH for my tank? At same time I wonder how easy or complicate could be each water change when needed. Thanks.

Reply:
Why do you want to put the pH down?
pH around 7.0 is quite okay for discus fish.
Unless you want to breed the wild discus then you have to put it down to 5.5

Tankmates for Discus

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

I am looking into getting two/three discus fish. What kind of fish can live with them? neon tetras? Chinese butterfly pleco? I’ve heard that only some types of plecos will leave the discus alone. Is
this true?

Reply:

The discus fish is good to keep them together with their own kind.
Their habitat and behavior are quite different from other fishes.