Ways To Prevent Discus Fish Diseases   by Adam White

in Hobbies / Collecting    (submitted 2011-09-20)

The discus fish is a variety of fish originally from the Amazon. These are known as discus in reference to their disc like shape; they possess a sort of disc like form and dazzling showy hues. Discus are used to the streams and rivers of the Amazon, in addition they are comfortable with a lot of dense greenery for their tank and also very soft water. Whilst these beautiful, brilliant, exotic fish have been the rage for about 90 years they aren't the simplest to care for. They can be considered a particularly fragile sort of fish and rather susceptible to disease

When ever maintaining discus, you'll need a very big aquarium for them to stay healthy. At just 6 months old they are the about the size of a tennis ball this should reveal approximately what capacity aquarium they're going to require, in general at least ten gallons for every mature discus as an approximate calculation. Because they definitely do better inside a bigger group, about six or eight together, due to this you can see that a rather sizeable tank is definitely required.

Discus Maintenance Tips

Water - Discus fish tanks should receive daily care as well as weekly over-all cleaning. The temperature need to stay at a little warm 28-30 degrees Celsius. Discus Fish enjoy having a little acidic water which has a P.H. level of between 6-7. Furthermore, closely keep track of their aquarium for nitrogen waste.

Aggressive Fish- Don't keep them with aggressive fish because they do not thrive. They usually are better with a little more gentle fish but generally prefer more of their own species. Be careful to not keep them together with significantly smaller fish because they might just consider them to be food.

Discus Disease

Good aquarium maintenance is quite possibly the most important aspect of Discus care, water plays a vital aspect in keeping a healthy discus. When the temperature inside their fish tank isn't really monitored diligently they could end up unhappy. If you see the colours of your discus start to become dull then you know that you've got an unhappy Discus. A miserable Discus will stop eating. You could even observe that they begin breathing quicker. If you begin to observe that they're passing a white-rope-like stool chances are they are becoming unwell caused by the aquariums temperature. However this can be easily addressed just by correcting the conditions within their fish tank that are unsuitable.

Care should be taken in choosing the kinds of fish that your Discus will be housed with as they might get to be stressed by aggressive aquarium-mates and after that end up ill. Whenever you notice that they're acting like they may be stressed, then just removing them from the fish tank will help them. A frequent mistake is accommodating them together with an algae eating type of fish and believing that this breed is harmless to them.

Discus can get sicknesses caused by worms. One of the most typical of these is hole in their head disease. it can be treated by using readily obtainable treatments. Which can be mixed in their frozen food. There are a number of different more extreme diseases which they may get but, in the vast majority of cases, could be avoided by simply keeping a clean tank and the appropriate water temperature.

About the Author

My name is Adam White and I have been keeping and breeding Discus for over 10 years,to learn more about keeping and breeding Discus fish, go to my Discus care website, there you will find out about preventing Discus disease and also a complete list of common Discus diseases