Angels with Discus

[Aquanero]

The differance may be in part due to Domestics vs wild cought IDK. My Discus were wild cought Heckel and the Angelfish were wild cought Scalare. Perhaphs domestics would behave differently however I have no experiance with housing domestic strains together. IME wild fish need more space are more cautious and are not used to feeding with other species on top of them. In Heiko's artical he mentions 40-50 us gallons per fish (Heckel) so eight fish would require a minimum 320 gallons for Discus alone not including the increas for each additional species. This may push the rqauired capacity up to and beyond the 500 gallon mark. Which doesn't appear to be what is shown in the picture they used in the artical so IDK that tank looks way over stocked for my liking but perhaps in that concentration it works. Do to the small confines of our tanks as compared to a river system I don't think we are compairing apples to apples. Adjustments for this have to be made. This however is my observation and experiance. Either way it's an interesting exchange of opinions.

 

[neutrino]

The differance may be in part due to Domestics vs wild cought IDK.

Maybe so, or maybe species. Mine were mostly domestic discus, but I did have some wilds at times, mostly "wild red discus" or "wild blue discus". Was over 20 years ago and back then that's all the identification I had for them, no species, location, etc. The wilds did tend to be more shy, as expected, especially at first. I never kept Heckel discus. Back then they were way expensive and considered much more difficult and I was content just to be doing well with the ones I had.

I also had some of the early pigeon bloods years ago and mine were very robust fish at the time, not intimidated by much ime.

My wild scalare (Peru) are actually quite laid back, not that they don't hold their own. But not keeping them with discus-- red head geos and guianacara.

 

[pHiaRo]

they're ok together, but the angel will eat most of the food!!