Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Preventing Discus Diseases

By Adam White


The discus fish is a species of fish from the Amazon. These are called discus because of their disc like bodies; they have a sort of disc like form and bright and vivid flashy colours. They are familiar with the rivers,streams and brooks in the Amazon, in addition they are comfortable with lots of thick plants for their home and soft water. While a lot of these attractive, brilliant, tropical fish have become the fashion for the last 90 years but, they are not the easiest to maintain. They can be regarded as quite a delicate variety of fish and easily susceptible to disease.

Whilst taking good care of discus fish, you want a very big tank to allow them to remain healthy. At the age of merely six months old they are the about the size of a tennis ball that should let you know round about what size tank they will need to have, in general a minimum of 10 gallons per grownup fish as an approximate calculation. Because they will do well in a big group, around between six and eight together, from this you will understand that a fairly large fish tank is definitely needed.

Discus fish Maintenance Tips

Water - Discus tanks needs routine attention and weekly over-all cleaning. The temperature has to remain at a little warm twenty-eight to thirty degrees Celsius. Discus Fish enjoy somewhat acidic water having a P.H. level of between 6.0 to 7.0.. Additionally, properly keep an eye on their aquarium for nitrogen waste.

Aggressive Fish- Don't house them together with aggressive fish when they would not thrive. They generally better together with a bit more docile fish but generally would rather have more of their own kind. Be mindful to not keep them with a lot smaller fish because they may well consider them to be dinner.

Discus Fish Disease

Proper aquarium maintenance is perhaps the most important factor of discus care, water performs a vital aspect in having a happy discus. If the temperature within their aquarium isn't really monitored carefully they could end up despondent. When you observe the colours of your discus begin to fade then you know that you probably have an unhappy fish. An unhappy Discus won't eat. You might even notice that they start breathing more rapidly. Any time you start to notice that they're passing a white-rope-like feces then they have become sick due to the aquariums temperature. Still , that is easily remedied simply by rectifying the conditions in their tank that are unsuitable.

Care will need to be taken when picking out the sort of fish which the Discus are going to be housed with as they might become stressed out by aggressive aquarium-mates and after that get ill. If ever you find they're behaving in a way that make you think they are stressed out, then just taking them out from the tank will benefit them. A common oversight is accommodating them with an algae eating type of fish and believing that this breed won't harm them.

Discus Fish sometimes get illnesses caused by worms. One of the more common of which is hole in their head disease. It can be cured by readily available medications. Which can be mixed in their food. There are many other far more dangerous illnesses which they may get yet, in the vast majority of cases, could be prevented by maintaining good aquarium conditions and the correct water temperature.




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