Discus fish

[Martin in Holland]

After a long startup of my discus fish tank and some help from my good friend Wayne Ng (discus breeder from Hong Kong) and one of his running sponge filters I've got my fish.
There are only 4 as I'm looking to get a pair out of them and move the other to a friend or in my other tank.
The tank isn't scaped what so ever, but I wanted to share this with you guys.

 

[Derek113]

Those fish are bursting with colour. They look fantastic

 

[alto]

Lovely fish

I vote for keeping the "extra's" in your other tank

 

[Tim Harrison]

So there you are...good to put a face to a name at long last...the occidental on the right?
Nice fish btw

 

[darrensp]

Very nice colours in those fish

 

[Manisha]

Beautiful fish!

 

[Martin in Holland]

...the occidental on the right?

The guy on the left doesn't look Dutch to you?

 

[Martin in Holland]

...the occidental on the right?

The guy on the left doesn't look Dutch to you?

 

[roadmaster]

Very nice fish.
Get em eating all you can (variety), so they don't bull up and refuse anything but Blood worm's and beefheart.
I managed to grow out a group of juveniles some year's back on New life spectrum pellet's,Ocean nutrition flake (High protein%), tetra bit's,spirulina brine shrimp, hikari bio-gold cichlid pellet's, and bit's of red worm's (bait shop).
Purist's scoffed at my refusal to offer beefheart and blood worm's but have had issues with both so I stuck with the afore mentioned.
Fish grew from roughly 5 centimeter's to adult's in about eight month's with three feeding's a day, and three 50 % weekly water changes.
Best of luck with handsome fishes.

 

[Martin in Holland]

Thanks roadmaster, I can get a good beefheart mix and blood worms here, but I want to try some pellet and/or flakes as well. I'll be doing a 40 to 50% water change each day to keep water parameters as constant as possible.... so far I want to keep doing as Wayne Ng suggested as he is the master and I'm lucky to have him as a friend.

 

[Ryan Thang To]

nice one martin. amazing discus can't wait to see the scape

cheers
ryan

 

[roadmaster]

Yes,Is good to have advice from one who is successful and can impart their knowledge that obviously work's well.

 

[Tim Harrison]

The guy on the left doesn't look Dutch to you?

Haha...I'm a Dutchman if he does
Didn't know you were Dutch

 

[Martin in Holland]

nice one martin. amazing discus can't wait to see the scape

cheers
ryan

This tank won't get scaped, it is a fish only tank.

 

[Martin in Holland]

After a cleaning pipes disaster, my building management didn't inform us that they would clean the water pipes and they used more bleach than you would find in any swimming pool ...... I lost one Discus fish, now I was down to only 3, so a good excuse to get some more
I went to Hong Kong and got 4 more Discus at Wayne Ng's place, according to Wayne I could easily keep more fish in my tank as long as I keep up with daily water changes (I change 70-80% on a daily base), but for me it's still a grow out tank and most of them will end up in my other tank.
Anyway, I made a movie of my trip to Hong Kong....here is the link

 

[Lindy]

Very interesting! Couldn't hear much of what you were saying though due to music.

 

[Martin in Holland]

My comments aren't that interesting to listen to anyway .... but indeed the music came out louder than intended.

 

[alto]

I'd be happy without the musicover too I kept straining to hear the Real Guy

 

[Martin in Holland]

Someone asked for some pictures of my Discus....well, here they are. The smaller (less blue) are still pretty young and a different colour variation (bigger once are "Blue Knight", smaller once are "Violet Reflection, all of my fish came from the same breeder (Wayne Ng)

Enjoy

 

[alto]

missed these photos somehow ... suddenly realized you really mean Wayne Ng!!!!



(I'm a bit slow sometimes )