You mentioned your substrate is rather large correct? One thing about discus is that they tend to like to graze alot. With large substrate that will be alot harder for them and you will lose alot of food that way. Sure they will attack food when it hits the tank but they tend to slow down then graze after the 1st intial feeding frenzy. If you want to have substrate I would suggest a thin layer of pool filter sand as it is small enough both the food and poop hit the top and do not settle. It will make any spot cleaning much much easier. It would be best if you could up your water changes a bit as...even though water may stay within good parameters. Young discus produce a hormone in the slimecoat that does inhibit growth. And changing the water frequently reduces the amount of hormone within the water column allowing for better growth. Jack Wattley found that even hooking up growout systems to a centralized filter that the smaller discus within the system tended to slow considerably in growth. All of his growout tanks are now on their own separate filtration.
Finally trying discus. Maybe.
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if your going to go with substrate then sand is the only option without problems. I can't see how food does'nt get trapped in gravel of any size. spot cleaning should never take the place of wc's. change enough water and you will never have to spot clean. discus are slow eaters and will feed off the bottom. my fish take a half hour to eat all of the food.
This is appx. 8 hrs after a 80% WC with 5 feedings of BH....
I do 80% daily and i still cant keep the bottom clean...
Good luck with your set up!
I do 80% daily and i still cant keep the bottom clean...
Good luck with your set up!
This is appx. 8 hrs after a 80% WC with 5 feedings of BH....
I do 80% daily and i still cant keep the bottom clean...
Good luck with your set up!
how many you got?what size tank? size of fish?
looks alot cleaner than mine=p
You must love feeding your crew
It get's pretty messy in there, sometimes i'll do a double water change once in the AM and once in the PMYou must love feeding your crew
They demand me too lol stick my hand in the tank and they think its feeding time and start nibbling away
Just observe the tank for sometimes and you'd figure out an answer on your own whether or not to use gravel...discus are slow eaters.
