Discus have an expensive learning curve!

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mr.bigglesworth said:
My discus are like rats. They just wont friggen die!! I leave the filter off for a week (twice), don't feed them for months at a time, put off water changes and they just keep on living it! I bought them from a nice hobbyist for 10$/pc at ~2"-3" I bought 5 and 3-4 months later their all still alive! And 2x as big! Their little royal PITA. Completely ignore me, don't beg for food, act like they somethin real special... quite the contrary!

I liked the idea of peaceful cichids at first, miss my old group of fish SO MUCH! Sure 1 of them was gettin too big but the rest were doing great! Just hope you don't make the same mistake as me.... Selling off your most beloved fishes to try something new... wish I could go back in time and keep my featherfin catfish. She was my treasure piece! FULL of personality. :(.

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Please get out of the hobby


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Achill3s said:
Yup, Discus have an expensive learning curve if your not careful. I recently decided to try discus with my 75 since the dempsey and severums kept trying to kill each other. Couldn't really afford a large group so I got a deal on 3 small to medium sized discus for 120, beautiul colors. About a week and a half after getting them, came home to find one dead. LFS has 7 day policy and wouldn't trade it out for me. Ok fine, I still have 2, freebie died. 2 days later. 2nd one flips out in the tank, spinning in circles and dies right before my eyes. At this point I am very disappointed. I have had so much good luck with so many fish, thought I could keep them without issue. So far the last one is doing fine. I have moved it to my planted 20 long until my 20 tall cycles completly. I know they like to be in groups but I can't afford to get anymore right now and a 20 tall may not be a huge tank for it but it should be happy. Here is the tank its in now. http://72.187.139.72:8081/

And no, I didn't put them in with a dempsey or severums...sold those!
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it was expensive only because you did'nt research before you bought them. you did everything you should'nt do. if you can't afford to keep these fish then why bother going half way? it's not that you were'nt careful. it was because you don't know how to care for them.
 
I lost 3 in 12 hours because i took pitty on one that was small.. the sheer stress in the tank killed them...I felt soooo sick about losing that amount of money. now im sooo picky about my discus, and get them from the top breeder discus hans. his prices are lower and he picks out the best stock for the people that go to him to buy..
 
I disagree with you guys, here is just an example that not always everything has to be perfect.


mr.bigglesworth said:
My discus are like rats. They just wont friggen die!! I leave the filter off for a week (twice), don't feed them for months at a time, put off water changes and they just keep on living it! I bought them from a nice hobbyist for 10$/pc at ~2"-3" I bought 5 and 3-4 months later their all still alive! And 2x as big! Their little royal PITA. Completely ignore me, don't beg for food, act like they somethin real special... quite the contrary!

I liked the idea of peaceful cichids at first, miss my old group of fish SO MUCH! Sure 1 of them was gettin too big but the rest were doing great! Just hope you don't make the same mistake as me.... Selling off your most beloved fishes to try something new... wish I could go back in time and keep my featherfin catfish. She was my treasure piece! FULL of personality. :(.

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discusgirl said:
I lost 3 in 12 hours because i took pitty on one that was small.. the sheer stress in the tank killed them...I felt soooo sick about losing that amount of money. now im sooo picky about my discus, and get them from the top breeder discus hans. his prices are lower and he picks out the best stock for the people that go to him to buy..
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Off topic but I love the pair in your avatar especially the male.
 
3dees said:
it was expensive only because you did'nt research before you bought them. you did everything you should'nt do. if you can't afford to keep these fish then why bother going half way? it's not that you were'nt careful. it was because you don't know how to care for them.
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Its not like I didn't do a whole buch of research before I decided to get these fish. This was something I wanted to try, I have had great luck with taking care of angels and was doing fine with the one discus that I had left, unfortunalty it decided to have an sezuire in my tank last night and beat itself to crap like it was part of fight club. RIP Tyler Durden!

Now I have decided to go back to angels. Less money, less maintenance, great fish!
 
mr.bigglesworth said:
My discus are like rats. They just wont friggen die!! I leave the filter off for a week (twice), don't feed them for months at a time, put off water changes and they just keep on living it! I bought them from a nice hobbyist for 10$/pc at ~2"-3" I bought 5 and 3-4 months later their all still alive! And 2x as big! Their little royal PITA. Completely ignore me, don't beg for food, act like they somethin real special... quite the contrary!

I liked the idea of peaceful cichids at first, miss my old group of fish SO MUCH! Sure 1 of them was gettin too big but the rest were doing great! Just hope you don't make the same mistake as me.... Selling off your most beloved fishes to try something new... wish I could go back in time and keep my featherfin catfish. She was my treasure piece! FULL of personality. :(.

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This guy is a joke.

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