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I definitley recommend it! They are addictive. hahaha

Haha, you will be the first I call, but I doubt that day will be anytime soon

Just finished a 70% water change and thought I would post some pictures. http://img412.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=002zhx.jpg

Nice. Where did you get him from?

Wow! Makes me want to get Rays!! No good for a 90 gallon Discus tank though. Will have to be content just seeing them at work.

Stunning colors

Thank you for the kind comments. It definitley can be time consuming taking care of these fish, but I think it's well worth it!!

Thought I would post a quick vid of my Discus. Tank is a little murky looking after a good algae cleaning. Enjoy, DL

thanks for your help. I think for the most varied diet I am going to feed trout pellets, hikari and NLS. Why not include some frozen food to mix things up, like some silver sides or krill? If you ever get a bag of frozen prawns, try giving your Oscar those too! no offence or anything but I know what I am doing :P just to let you know I feed nls pellets hikari pellets mysis krill prawns beef heart crickets super worms earth worms maggots banana peas algea weafers I also add vita chem to all of there food Ahh sorry, my mistake, it sounded like you were only feeding the pellets to them. That is quite a good variety of food. Do they take beef heart readily? I don't own an Oscar, but I hear lots of people have a hard time getting their Oscar to eat BH readily.

thanks for your help. I think for the most varied diet I am going to feed trout pellets, hikari and NLS. Why not include some frozen food to mix things up, like some silver sides or krill? If you ever get a bag of frozen prawns, try giving your Oscar those too!

IMO NLS is overrated... Not saying it's a bad brand or anything because it is superior to quite a few out there.

Thanks guys good to know. Not sure about the PSI residue though. Not even sure what it is :S

Hello, Just curious, does anyone know if there is any chloramine in Calgary tap water?? Thanks, Connor

Your Discus are looking great so far, glad they have settled in well.

Yep. If all else fails this will almost always work. I like to recommend it to my customers but a lot of them try to go for the more affordable options

I think its cool that you keep these guys, I would think a lot of them would be culled. I LOVE that jewel cichlid. Looks like he has a really big smile on him. :smokey:

Yes, there bellies look pretty sunken in the photo if that's why you are asking. Eating pretty well since the day after they where introduced, they still seem a little skinny for my liking so I will be upping the amount of food I am giving them. Hopefully it isn't being caused by any parasites

Never mind, should have read the whole thing.

Here are my new kenny/forrest discus supplied via April!! Unfourtunatley because my quarantine tank is very dimly light I had to use a flash, which just doesn't do justice for the colors of the fish. Anyways here they are. One Leopard Snakeskin and one Checkerboard Pigeon Blood.

Glad your guys ended up alive and healthy!! I will have to get some picture up of my two guys too!!

HITH would be caused more by the lack of nutrients, not necessarily feeders in itself.

If you are going to have feeders. Set up a tank and breed your own live bearers (really easy to breed) and gut load them with all sorts of foods (dry and frozen.) Live bearers include guppies, platies, swords, mollies and more.

Might want to check out Wai's Aquarium, 4-222 16 Avenue NE. I have actually only been there once when I was very young and haven't had the chance to go back lately. I have been to most of the locally owned stores around Calgary and for the most part they are all alright. I really like Franco's and Golds (as do most other members by the looks of it ) I went to Big Al's once and honestly, wasn't too impressed. They didn't stock much and the fish didn't look like they where in great condition, but maybe things have changed since then.

Wow, well all the fish are very pretty and so is the tank! :thumbs:

Thanks guys! I have no plans of adding anything, just trying to grow the blue guy out and hopefully some day enter it into competitions!! Going to try out the NADA online competition with him and see how he places.