Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Discus Disease Prevention Tips

By Adam White


The discus is a variety of fish taken from the Amazon River. They are called discus due to their appearance; they have a somewhat round body and bright showy hues. They are used to the waterways in the Amazon, they also like loads of thick plants within their home in addition to softened water. Despite the fact that these gorgeous, brilliant, spectacular fish have already been the rage for almost 90 years they aren't the simplest to care for. They can be considered a really delicate type of fish and quite susceptible to disease.

Whenever taking care of discus fish, you must use a very large aquarium to enable them to be healthy. From just 6 months old they will be roughly tennis ball sized that ought to tell you about what capacity aquarium they are going to require, typically at least ten gallons for each adult discus as an approximate estimate. As they definitely do well in a larger batch, about 6 to 8 in one tank, from this you will understand that a rather big aquarium is indeed important.

Discus fish Maintenance Tips

Water - Discus fish tanks takes frequent attention and weekly over-all cleaning. The water temperature will need to stay at a slightly warm 28-30 degrees Celsius. Discus Fish enjoy having slightly acidic water along with a P.H. level of between 6 to 7. Additionally, closely keep an eye on their fish tank for nitrogen waste.

Aggressive Fish- Don't keep them together with aggressive fish since they will not do well. They are fine with a bit more gentle fish but generally prefer more of their own species. Be conscious to never put them together with substantially smaller fish because they may think of them as lunch.

Discus Disease

Proper aquarium tank routine maintenance is perhaps the most important factor of discus care, water plays an integral part in preserving a happy discus. If the temperature inside their tank isn't really observed carefully they may end up unhappy. If you observe the colours of your discus start to fade then you know that you probably have an unhappy fish. An unhappy Discus will lose their appetite. You may also notice that they begin breathing more quickly. In the event that you start to notice that they are passing white-rope-like feces chances are they are becoming ill owing to the tanks temperature. But this is easily resolved just by correcting the circumstances inside their aquarium which are unsuitable.

Care needs to be taken in choosing the sort of fish that your Discus are housed with because they can get disturbed by aggressive house-mates and because of that end up unwell. In case you notice that they are acting in a way that make you think they are stressed out, then just taking them out from the aquarium can help them. A frequent oversight is putting them together with an algae eating variety of fish and thinking that this is harmless to them.

Discus Fish might get sicknesses caused by worms. One of the more common of which is hole in their head disease. which can be cured by using readily obtainable treatments. Which can be mixed in their food. There are several different more severe sicknesses which they may get yet, in the great majority of circumstances, can be avoided by maintaining good aquarium conditions and the appropriate water temperature.




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