So, I mentioned a couple of days back that i had received a group of new discus... what had happened is that a friend of mine wanted to grow out a set of juveniles, and so had gone and bought 3 assorted discus that as far as i can tell are 1 snakeskin (18 bars), 1 ghost (only has dark bars through eyes and tail, i think that is the right classification), and one of more normal 9 bar discus. They are all too young to have any color, so thats why i give the bar description. Anyway, after a couple of days he discovered that he could not keep up with the work that goes into them, and knowing that i am a fish nut he decided to give them to me... When I got them, they were dark, listless, they ate, but would flee whenever you went in front of the tank, and while highly enjoyable, were a tad frustrating in that you could only watch them from a distance. So, thinking that 3 was about the worst number of discus you could have, i decided to make a quick run down to mac's discus and pick up a 3 more, and ended up with 3 red tiger discus... so, having done that, and placed them in the water with the first set of discus, I know that I am going to get flamed for not doing a quarantine, but Im afraid that since the first discus were a surprise they are sitting in my 30 quarantine/hospital tank, i left the light off for the rest of the day. The next day uppon turning on the light, I am greeted by six discus staring me in the face making that weird fish mouth "feed me" sign... so i put a cube of blood worms in, and take a look at how the discus are faring. The first three are signifficantly brighter, and the new set is also doing beautifully, they ended up eating all the blood worms, and a pinch of both flake and tetra color bits.... anyway... quite pleasing, and just goes to show that little changes sometimes make a huge difference... oh, and i will get pictures up as soon as I get around to it....
