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Charney

Charney

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Could a 90g moderately planted comfortably house six adult discus with room for some schools of tetras? Also is it bad practice to keep angelfish with discus? I am setting up a planted "show" tank for some discus and of course my gf loves black angels. I was considering allowing her to put two in the tank. Thanks
 
How big are the Discus? What kind of tetras? Since this is your first time with discus I would say no to the angels.
 
Thanks for getting back to me. This is not my first time with discus. I used to breed them 10 years ago. At that time I kept individual pairs in either 30 or 50gallons. Do to not having enough time I sold them off a year after getting into breeding them. I have never kept them as a community fish. Now that I have free time again I want to make a nice display tank of them. I will be purchasing discus that are about four to five inches, but I have no intention of upgrading the tank.
 
i would still say no to the angels as its a hit and miss. as for a 90g for 6 discus thats plenty of room. i would suggest you go 5"+ if you can since at 4 inch they can still be a bit sensitive.
 
Charney said:
because of the planted setup?
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If you went with Adults you wont have as much maintenance as if you were to go with Juvies. With juvies you want to do 60-80% water changes daily or would you like to go with Adults and possible do 50 to 80% every 7 to 10 days? Juvies require a high protein with multiple feeding with clean pristine waters to be healthy and acheive maximum growth 6+ Inches!
If you dont mind having small stunted discus then you can go with juvies...
 
my husbandry is pretty damn good. I can grow out juvies without stunting them. Raising juvies in planted planted tank is considered more challenging though. I will probably ordering from Kenny disucs or discus hans something close to five inches. I have to move all my tanks in a month and then I will fish planting the tank so I can get some discus.
 
Charney said:
my husbandry is pretty damn good. I can grow out juvies without stunting them. Raising juvies in planted planted tank is considered more challenging though. I will probably ordering from Kenny disucs or discus hans something close to five inches. I have to move all my tanks in a month and then I will fish planting the tank so I can get some discus.
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The bigger the better!
 
with 5 inch i would suggest to do wc every 2-3 days since some strains will still be growing at 5 inch while others will be near max size
 
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