Green Discus Fish

Green Discus Fish Room
Ahhhh, those greens. Not salad my friend….nature, the woods, trees, the great outdoors! My generation loves everything you can think of doing outside—swimming, hiking, camping, stargazing, wind surfing, bird watching, fly fishing, white water rafting, kayaking, deep-sea angling, mountain climbing, spelunking. Okay, caving is where I draw the line but all the rest I’ve done.
Brought up achieving merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America, we had paper drives when there were no words for it. We went green without knowing it, and before it was a fad. Paper drives, recycling, solar panels….the whole nine yards. Now they tell us we must go green or the proverbial you know what is about to hit the fan. Even if the deniers are correct and humans have absolutely nothing to do with climate change and global warming…dumping plastic into the deep blue seas or into the green dark forests seems incorrect to me. If going green means taking care of our own garbage, well that seems fair.
But the deep green forests….nothing like a camping trip to one of our great National Parks. I’ve been to Acadia, Glacier, Everglades, Mt. Ranier and the Grand Canyon and I’m here to tell you–these experiences are beyond words. My bucket list? Alaska leads the way with Denali National Park at the top of the list. After all is said and done, we do need to preserve these places, if only so future generations can have a respite from everything that isn’t green.
By Robert Gluck

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  4. My Discus pair have begun to spawn every week since Christmas. The eggs are fertile. As they hatch, the parents seem to fight over the babies; which then soon disappear. What should I do?

  6. Im having issues off and on by loosing fish. I have 7.6 ph tap water. I keep a 40 gallon barrel with heater and air Stone. I treat the barrel to lower ph in between weekly water changes for 40 and 90 gallon tanks. Any suggestions are welcomed.

  7. I have 2 pair of Breeding Discus. They are all in separate breeding Tank (20 Gallon). The female lay eggs almost every week. the male also ejaculates, but within a few weeks, the fertilization fails. Eggs are all white, and I am not successful. Are both male impotent? Sometimes they also eat their eggs. Can you help me ? Thx

  9. I received in the shipment of the purchase #10880 an extra package of a yellow powder that medicine is and how they are used. Excellent the fish shipped although 2 of the 4 Altums 2 of them were not the expected size 3” but very healthy and beautiful fish the super excellent and punctual packaging under the adverse weather conditions to send.

  11. Great article and very informative.
    I myself use to use 3 large canister filters in my 150 gallon xh aquarium, but maintaining 3 sun sun 704b canister filters became alot of work for me and made it hard for me to enjoy my discus I purchased from DISCUS.COM. so I took the plunge into a sump for my discus tank. 40 breeder aquarium makes a great sump…and now I definitely enjoy sitting and relaxing watching my beautiful discus…maintaining my sump is very easy and takes minutes, instead of hours cleaning several canister filters….also adds volume and is a place to add all my equipment…thank you Michael for providing such a wonderful website with loads of information and beautiful discus..

  15. I have a few questions rather than a comment.

    Would opening the shipping bag and allowing the built-up CO2 (from the trip) to escape suddenly raise the pH and make the ammonia in the water from the trip dangerous (by a sudden conversion from ammonium to ammonia due to the pH rise)?

    Would it be safer to prepare new water at the pH they are accustomed to and then open the bag and quickly transfer them to the fresh water without ammonia present?

    Also, what pH are your discus accustomed to so I may match my water to yours? Thank you, Mark, California.

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