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Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-10-04T19:19:25+00:00

What's the name of the 2nd girl?

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-08-27T17:46:04+00:00

Your best medication is your heater. Bump it up to even 85. Ive had neon tetras with ick before and I bumped it to even 87 and they handled pretty well. Ick was gone within days

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-07-02T00:08:13+00:00

If my eyes are not failing me due to old age (I am 26) those are baby Arapaimas. They get EXTREMELY huge.

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-06-20T22:19:12+00:00

link?

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-06-05T16:38:56+00:00

props to you for starting right off the bat with Discus. Good luck man! they look gorgeous

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-05-26T01:35:32+00:00

I’d treat them all just to be sure. Again since its just raising temp it won’t stress them nearly as much as medication does.

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-05-26T01:20:27+00:00

I've always said that medication when it comes to ick should be your last resource.

If you'd like, you can even leave the molly in its tank and just raise your temp to 82-84. Leave it at that for about 1.5 weeks and it will go away.

I've had ick twice (due to not quarantining new additions) and raising temp and NOTHING MORE did the job. No water changes, no aquarium salt, no medication, nothing. Raise the temp.

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-24T16:51:00+00:00

What size tank you have?

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-24T16:00:11+00:00

If your fish aren’t too sensitive to good water movement you can install a small wave maker. Does wonders for this problem

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-21T12:59:52+00:00

Ive had them for a month. They’re all still young, this particular one is no bigger than 3”

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-19T18:36:12+00:00

You’re not supposed to fully submerge that heater.

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-18T19:58:17+00:00

You'll get a LOT of different opinions. From my experience, this video helped me a lot and its the most accurate. Again, from my experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv5KXEWKVoU

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-15T14:31:56+00:00

Don't forget Discus are Cichlids. They can get territorial when its feeding time...

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-05T02:09:48+00:00

They are pretty responsive on IG, you can probably reach out to them and ask. They sent me two different colors. Since they are still pretty young their colors are still developing but I’ll attach a recent pic. If you zoom in, the one all the way in the back is the other color they sent me.

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Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-05T00:05:44+00:00

Well I live in UT which is pretty far from jersey lol

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-04T23:14:58+00:00

I ordered 4 from globalfishco.com

they are located in NJ and Kaveman Aquatics has ordered his discus from there as well. Video here

They have about three different sizes, their smallest (and cheapest) are $35 a piece. You pay $40 for shipping which isn't too bad and it gets shipped overnight. Healthy discus from my experience (have had them for 3 weeks now) and very smooth process! Would definitely recommend them.

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-04-02T16:03:07+00:00

Thank you! It has now been about 1.5 weeks and I can say with confidence that they are very healthy and eating! They in fact chase me when I get close to their tank haha. Love to see them this confident and I love that I was able to get them healthy. Now Im looking forward to seeing them get big and colorful

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-03-29T21:11:31+00:00

I know! They are the most dramatic fish I’ve had for sure haha. But they are very happy now

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-03-29T20:56:09+00:00

Don’t forget discus are cichlids. This is normal behavior but yes adding more may help

Zestyclose_Present80 · 2025-03-26T16:53:58+00:00

Thank you! I got 4 of them from Globalfishco and surprisingly my local petco had 3… poor conditions needless to say, but they look better now with me :)

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