Discus Advice

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Singin4Cnu

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Hey Guys,
A few months ago I posted pics and was informed that my discus were stunted. One of you guys told me to go bare bottom with the baby discus but I really wasn't into that idea. I got up on the water changes and all was well, until a few days ago. I had a massive algae bloom and I know that is not good. So, to break the nerves, I took all the gravel and plants out, got about 10 small clay pots and went with a bare bottom with my two pieces of driftwood and put a few of the hardier plants in pots. I must say, no gravel on the bottom was the way to go. It stays sooooooo clean and the water parameters stay perfect with little effort. I posted in the DIY section asking if it would be wise to do a ten gallon wet/dry filter for the discus, having four in a 29 gallon until I move out on my own and take the 65 I have at home. Some advice would be cool(On filter and just any kind of advise you may have with keeping this kind of setup). I have an Aquaclear three stage 70 gallon filter on it right now.



Thanks A lot!:)

Btw I have a cleaning crew of five Cory cats and two Clown Loaches so the bottom is ALWAYS spotless!
 
I would be wary of the clown loaches as they can be overly aggressive in eating, and out compete the discus on food. The W/D filter would be good, but if you don't know W/D filters, and PVC overflows, then you will likely run into problems. If you want to up the filtration easily, add a couple Hydro 3 sponges, or one Hydro 5, run with an air pump.
 
Ya I did notice that at the end of every day the loaches were always REALLY fat:WHOA:. Ill leave them and see what happens. I am also in need of an algae eater. I have been told that you can keep some species of pleco with discus as long as they stay small. Can you give me some examples....???? I would like something unique to keep the class of the discus.
 
Best thing is either a snail that doesn't eat plants, or an algae scraper. With the amount of food necessary to feed discus, you will often have poor algae cleaning from the bottom dwellers as they will prefer the food. There are hundreds of plecos that you can keep with discus though. I personally have L183, L190, L203, L104, L010, L010a all with my discus.
 
Ah ok thanks a lot, how do I decide exactly which I can keep with them. Is it a size limit? I had three of the small chinese algae eaters with them and I ended up taking them out after repeatedly catching them attaching to the side of my discus.
 
chinese algae eaters are no plecos, but cyprinoids. Ans known for theyre agresivnes. Most plecs can be kept with discus, like ancistrus, chaetostoma and peckoltia. Also sturisoma's are very beatiful fish, to gether with discus.
 
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