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Re: When is a Discus Considered an Adult?

Thanks for the input, appreciate it.

Would you guys consider Discus that have grown out of the juvenile stage and are now around 4 or 4.5 inches?

Re: High Tech Co2 fully Planted setups?

Thanks, I concur with your perspective.

I'm curious if anyone's had success with high-light, high CO2 demanding plants and a school of adult discus. It's rare to see this setup, I know it's tough to keep demanding plants in warm water, which discus require. Has anyone got a heavily planted tank with discus? I'd love to scale up what I've ...

Re: Growing Juvies (need advice)

Originally posted by micsim

Just to re emphasize what wilde is saying, do 90-100% daily water changes if possible, not just for maximum growth, but also to minimize diseases like fin rot, gill flukes etc. Large water changes dilute DOC's as well as pathogens, thus ...

Re: Growing Juvies (need advice)

Yeah, that makes sense, I've seen those Asian discus farms too and how they do massive water changes daily, so I figured that's what I needed to do to get them growing.

Re: Growing Juvies (need advice)

I'll take that on board, thanks for the advice. I'm thinking of bumping up the water change to 60% every other day. Would that be sufficient or should I really be doing it daily?

Re: Growing Juvies (need advice)

Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it. The juvies were between 3.4 and 4 inches when I picked them up. Slowly but surely, they're putting on some size.

Re: Growing Juvies (need advice)

Thanks for the advice, I appreciate the input. I'll stick with my 50% water change every other day for the next few months. I'm glad you guys like the discus, I was able to hand pick them when I visited Uncle Sams in LA.

I've had discus for a few years, but I've only ever bought adults, 6+ inches. Now I'm trying my hand at growing these 7 juvies from Uncle Sam's. I'll share my feed and water change routine, plus some pics.

I feed 4-5 times a day - pellets and flake food for the first 3-4 feedings, then beef heart ...