How to prepare water for keeping and breeding Discus fish
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- How I get my my Discus water ready for safely keeping and breeding my discus fish. These techniques have served me well over the last 30 years. Learn from my mistakes and never let a water issue become the reason you have any problems with your Discus fish. #discuswater #discusfishroom #discusfishtank #discusfishaquarium #breedingdiscusfish #keepingdiscusfish
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Thank you for sharing ! its pure awesomeness . will be improving my filtration specs and be abit more chill with my discus routines. From Singapore
Thank you for your kind words.
Steve Heller
Shelleraquatics
Dam.. And i thought I had ocd.... 🤣🤣 I just set up my first discus tank.... Learned alot from your video... Good stuff brother
Definitely OCD, it's a blessing and a Curse. LOL!
I have been watching you over a week I love the way you do things brother man I need some Discus in near future I live in LA I hope you are close by i.m remodeling my room now after i.m finished I hit you up thanks 😊
Thank you for the compliments, I appreciate it. I have been resetting my entire room to bring in only top quality stock and it has been a process that is going to be amazing. I am a couple states over and will be shipping all over the U.S.
Thank you
Steve Heller
@@shelleraquatics I can't wait so i.m remodeling my fishroom also doing Discus only looking forward to buy some from you in near future have a great holiday season
I wish I could age out some water for my breeding tank. Living in an apartment and attempting to breed these guys is a lot but after a week of getting the parameters in line i think I’ll have some baby discus soon.
Be patient and try different tactics. I can't tell you how many failures it took to get success, even to this day I fail 6 out of 10 times. I have been fortunate to move into large scale so it looks like I'm successful but my failure rate is about the same. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.
Steve Heller
Hi my name is Glen great show thank you
You are very welcome 😊
You rock good stuff love it 👌👌👍
Thank you!!👍🐠😀
Wonderful.
Thank you 😊
Thanks for sharing! Appreciate the effort you put in to ya vids 🙏 Roughly what percent and how often do you water change for moderately stocked with adults?
20-25% 1-2 times a week depending on mechanical filtration. Really great filtration is once a week. Take into account the stocking density also a great place to start.
Steve Heller
Shelleraquatics.com
@@shelleraquatics many thanks Steve
@SickDiscus 😊
I use a 1-micron sediment filter 2-chloramine filters 2-membranes- 2 -di filters i use Discus Minerals which i buy from Germany my ph is at 6.4 i add a little of potassium bicarbonate for a little kh. My discus spawn all the time- i keep them in 90 gallon tanks this system works best for me been doing it this way for over 25 plus Years. Joe H Navy Seabee
I love it, I've been called crazy for my setup but it just takes 1 time to realize how crucial it is to be prepared for anything that can and will sneak up on you eventually and negate all your hard work.
That's just not real life! True! Thanks for this 😁
You bet, thanks for watching I really appreciate it 😊
You can’t add trace directly to the tank?
Yes you can, not a problem 👌
Good stuff, can't be to safe
Avoid "Pain" as much as possible,
Thank you for your comment 🙏
How long should l age water.?
UK
12-24 hours. Anywhere in between will work!👍🐠🙂
+1 for redundancy
"I love it"🐠
Sir why they eat the babies
You must have patience while breeding Discus. There is a reason why they are expensive. It takes time for the parents to figure it out. As far as why do they eat their babies, probably over a 100 reason why they do this. It's a puzzle that every breeder has to solve.
Steve Heller
Why cant you just use 75% ro and 25% tap chasing numbers are not good
I just use straight RO water now with a little crushed coral for a buffer. In 2 years of research I have found that these fish do not take hardly any nutrients from water and most comes from their diet. I have developed a food that gives them almost everything they need. The key is fulvic acid which has changed the way I think about Discus. It is a carrier to the cells. This is a byproduct of humic acid on the cellular level and allows super absorption of all their vitamins and minerals. The results have been amazing. I about to release the product in the next month. As far as mixing I have super hard water and it takes my soft neutral water to levels that are not conducive to the wild species I keep. Even a small percentage agitated my Wild Altums, it also could be a toxin in my water that can't filter out. This is another benefit of fulvic (Gold not brown) it binds heavy metals which does not penatrate to the cellular level. They are my barometer for my new system. I have never seen blue/green turquoise and I call razor silver in captive/wild Altum Angelfish. This has been 2 years of research working with scientists, chefs, farmers, and biologists. I have logged approximately close to 1000 hours on this subject and it has changed how I look at the Amazon, the water and fish diets in general.
Steve Heller
@@shelleraquatics Thank you for your speedy and very interesting reply. Food for thought, pun intended