Can I keep discus with this community tank?

[asm129]

I have a 100g tank with a 3-4" angel, a green scat, a 4" red severum, a 4" uaru and a 11-12" silver aro. The aro doesn't show any aggression to my other fish.

I was at my LFS and the owner said if I can keep an angel in a tank like that, then it's good enough for a discus too. Is that right? I know my water is around ph 7.5 and temp is about 80. But the ones at the LFS are kept at about the same paramaters. Will a discus be ok in a tank like mine? It seems like the breeder farms are making them hardier now because I've seen many discus tanks that didn't look so clean at different stores and they still looked/acted normally.

 

[jthefishguy]

i'd throw an imported discus in there and see what happens. any US bred discus wouldn't last. all the farm raised fish overseas are pretty durable. mine eat flake food!!

 

[Snowflake311]

Well first the scat is brackish and should not be kept in fresh water long term.

The severum and uaru are too bossy forsix zebra danios a discus At feedig time I have both these fish and keep disus. I know the personalitys of them and can say unless it's a very big tank it will not work with discus.

Now the angle can work with the discus. You don't have enough room for a proper group of 5-6 diacus in this tank with these other fish any ways. Rethink your stock.

It is just silly to say local bred fish are weak. Most fish are imported even local breeders get most of their breeding fish imported.

 

[jdvue]

those other fish are too aggressive (when it comes to feeding).

the discus wait for the food to slowly sink and then chew the food,spit it out then finally eat it. I've seen my rams dart toward the bworms as my discus spat it out, and there'd be no food left for the poor discus haha. now imagine the uaru and aro and severum.

but as for an arowana,i have kept it in my discus tank with no prob b4 though. (since it eats from the top)

 

[hillbilly]

I have a 100g tank with a 3-4" angel, a green scat, a 4" red severum, a 4" uaru and a 11-12" silver aro. The aro doesn't show any aggression to my other fish.

I was at my LFS and the owner said if I can keep an angel in a tank like that, then it's good enough for a discus too. Is that right? I know my water is around ph 7.5 and temp is about 80. But the ones at the LFS are kept at about the same paramaters. Will a discus be ok in a tank like mine? It seems like the breeder farms are making them hardier now because I've seen many discus tanks that didn't look so clean at different stores and they still looked/acted normally.

No. You are going to enough problems in the future with that tank and those fish without putting discus in it. Old post, so maybe that idea has passed!