Purple Discus Fish

Purple Discus Fish Room
As a young girl, my daughter loved purple. Seeing the purple discus truly reminds me of her. She decorated her room with purple. Wore purple to her prom. And last month she got married–and purple was present in her design of the wedding ceremony and reception. The color purple is perhaps the color of youth.
What’s that old phrase…why is youth wasted on the young? I’m not sure but ohh to be young again. We all long for the good ole’ days of our younger years. Heck, most try to stay young, look young, feel young. Hanging around young people can help, that is until the generation gap rears it’s head. We are different, but one thing makes us the same–we were all young once, and most of us will grow old.
Of course, Prince wrote Purple Rain and rain is usually linked to negativity and unhappiness but….for me, purple is my daughter’s favorite color and I’m going to go with her on her ride back through her childhood.  I think it’s also the color of rebellion in a way.  Look at me, I love the color purple, and I don’t care what you think! Yes, it’s natural to rebel. After years of listening to mom and dad tell us what to do and what to think, well… we want, long to be, on our own. To make our own decisions.  So let’s hear it for the rebels, the rebellious in all of us. When we see the purple discus let’s all rebel! Let’s do our own thing, lead our own authentic lives. In my humble view, that’s the only way to live.
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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