Our New Discus Tank - V

by George J. Reclos

Two of the other discus (October 2002). Feeding well but not growing that much, despite the regular water changes. Perhaps the harassment by the dominant one is a bit too much for the smaller representatives.. Even with just four discus in the tank (the initial six proved to be a very optimistic calculation) still two of them have chosen territories while the rest just try to be as invisible as possible. I am not an expert in Discus but I have some experience with cichlids so I am really trying to figure out how to arrange things in a different way. I am sure that when the plants grow part of the problem will be automatically resolved. I only hope the four discus will make it till then. Although extra care was taken at the beginning to ensure that all discus would have the same size when introduced in this tank, the preferential growth of two of them have created this sort of problem. Removing the smaller discus and adding two larger ones could be a solution but this is not the way we would like to go. Giving away fishes we have added in our tanks is something we try to avoid as much as possible.

The thought of adding some more fishes in this tank was always in the back of our minds. However we would like to chose fishes that required the same water parameters, while being compatible with the discus and - if possible - from the same biotope.

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