So I grow and sell very rare and high end corals about a month ago my saltwater display tank caught fire and I lost 25k in coral long story short. We had smoke damage to the whole house and the restoration company last week decided to use a a shellac based sealer without telling us so we couldn't take measures with my tanks therefore I lost all my saltwater fish and freshwater fish except for 1 gold rainbowfish. I have a 90 gallon freshwater tank that's been up for 9 years running on a eshopps wet dry sump with 50% weekly water changes. I was into big oddball fish I had a 13 inch bgk, 12 inch uaru, rainbow fish, angels and other community fish. Ive done it all except discus and african cichlids and I've always liked discus just never had the right fish stocking. So I'm thinking about turning this tank into a planted tank with discus. Thoughts
Thinking of discus
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Discus are one fish I have not tried yet either so can't help you there. But just wanted to say so sorry to hear about your fish loss and what you went thru with the fire. We had a flood in our house dec 29 and are going thru restoration right now too. I have 5 tanks to move out so we can get new flooring, paint, drywall, etc.
I tried it once with the wrong mix of fish. Try to get discus from the same batch and size. They need an open area to pick off food like pellets. Slow feeders. Pretty shy so they need dither fish, best tankmates would be tetras, corydoras, otos and dwarf cichlids. I had them with rainbowfish which was a nightmare at feeding time. Other than that, same characteristics as other cichlids, pecking order, bullying, pairing off, all that drama.