Guides to keeping discus.

can discus mix with bichirs? i know can mix with aro.

Originally Posted by milen007

can discus mix with bichirs? i know can mix with aro.

Hi milen, ur reply is in this post.
cheers
http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=159320

thanks heaps bro kin

Originally Posted by HuttShun

yup. they are caught from the amazon, with lots of mangrove.. haha super acidic..

amazon? is it the same as aro?

[HuttShun]

Originally Posted by Honeystar

amazon? is it the same as aro?

i think the same as the south american aro...

Originally Posted by Aqua-fanactic

Erh, nope, I meant I can see one side of the gill movement more than the other. i.e. the gill opens more on one side during breathing. Eating wise is ok, fins are well open too.

Maybe genetics (highly inbred) or more likely parasitic.

My guess is gill flukes. Quite common (your fish grows up with it until gills seem permanently asymmetric), not serious until the fish surface to breathe, or one side totally shut and the other flapping like crazy. Easiest way is to give it a salt bath (30 g/L, 45-60 mins, common table salt will do) . Osmosis kills them before it kills your fish. Better way is to get formaldehyde (formalin: probable carcinogen. Careful!) base solution. The cocktail from interpet treating white spot has some. Or if you can get a hold of formalin (35-37% active), dose 15 ppm, permanent dip, 3 days. Treats tank env as well, but more water change until bioactivity returns. Get a syringe and some latex gloves from guardian.

Originally Posted by FreEsTyLeR

I dunn think is the bad water condition, l had check all the water parameter but all is acceptable. Ammonia = 5, Nitrite = 0 & Nitrate = 10 and one of my PB have many black gains on its face like pimples but others have very very little on them, Funny rite...

The nitrifying bacts are not there/establish yet. It is first ammonia (dangerous= should be 0 all the time), then nitrite (dangerous), then nitrate (100-1000 x less dangerous), then nitrogen (which will not happen in your tank, that's why water change to remove nitrate).

Water change until filter media establish. Then water change when nitrate accumulates.

Originally Posted by Aqua-fanactic

Is this the internal bacteria? I am using Furan3 now.

More of a flagellate. More complex, multicellular. Small enough to migrate within body systems via blood streams.

newbie question.. very new to discus... bought one this afternoon (cheap cheap onli) so call melon..
looking through the post, some bro mentioned discus breeding... how we determine male or female? or just we have to get several pcs and let it pair up...

[HuttShun]

Originally Posted by alleyoop

newbie question.. very new to discus... bought one this afternoon (cheap cheap onli) so call melon..
looking through the post, some bro mentioned discus breeding... how we determine male or female? or just we have to get several pcs and let it pair up...

for me no certain method.. i will just get 6 and let them pair by themselves