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808_fairladyz

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I picked these guys up on Tuesday, 4 of them where doing alright but 2 of them where fighting for their lives. Within 48 hours of meds and 2 20% water changes @ 89 degrees, and salt treatments, yielded some very active and fully recovered discus fish. So far so good. I'm currently working on getting a 125 gal, and better filtration.
 
Discus are a curse and a blast!! You will learn a lot about medicine and disease if you do not give them excellent water. They look to be fairly small. In a perfect world they would get a wc every day. When I grew some out in a planted 180 I did 3 wc's a week. Now I have thinned the herd and just keep a mated pair in a breeder and unless they have spawned I change the water every day. Your discus are stunted,. Thats a prime example of not giving them good water quality.
 
I see that term being used often, though i am sure that my fish aren't stunted being that they are each only 1.5" each at this point. I've been doing water changes every other day since getting them home, adding salt, treating with melafix, and pimafix. Currently they are being housed in a 55 gal. aqua. which i know many will say is to small, but i am working on that one step at a time.
 
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I have six of them and was told that they where not high quality but that they came from a healthy stock bred by a local breeder. This is my first go at Discus and i am just hoping for the best, ready to learn new things, and ready to play. I must say that they are very active fish with good appetites. They really like mysis shrimp, but they also eat blood worms, and hikari discus mini granules. I am very happy with them.
 
Nice job on being pro-active and getting them back to health.

Looking good! Congrats :)
 
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