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FEEDING We feed our young/adult discus many varieties of food, including Hikari Discus Color Enhancer, Tetra Colorbits, brine shrimp/garlic flakes, Live daphnia, frozen blood worms, and home made beef heart recipe. Therefore, our discus will be accustom to many types of food. Most of our customers have no problems with our fish not eating. Feeding are done at least three times a day to fast growth. Our frozen beef heart are composed of beef hearts, frozen shrimps, fish flakes, garlic (to prevent internal parasitic infections), and liquid multivitamins. We do not use any hormone feeding or sell any hormone fed fish. We feed our sick and not eating discus live daphnia or frozen blood worms. They will usually won't eat anything else. These fish will recover once they start eating after treatment. Our baby fries are feed on newly hatch brine shrimps until they are able to take larger foods. Feeding are 3-4 times a day. Slightly larger fries (3-4 weeks old) are feed with live Daphnia pulex, and Moina, both are smaller the Daphnia magna. Then started on foods stated above. Some customers wanted to purchase some our home made beef heart mix. We have them price at $10 half pound and $16 for one pound in plastic slabs. These are kept frozen, therefore local purchase only.
WATER PARAMETERS Our discus water are pH 6.0-6.5, and use only regular tap water without using R/O. We do not check our water hardness. Temperature are set at 84-86 F. We change 10-20% water daily at night after feeding. Our tanks are all interconnected into seven filter systems with filters placed inside our sumps. These filters are clean daily. pH is adjusted down with Seachem pH buffer and up with baking soda. Please make sure you have the similar water parameters before ordering. Biological filters are provided by sponge filters in each tank and Biosubstrates(bioballs, biospheres, etc) in sumps. Sponge filters are cleaned regularly, but half are cleaned at a time to preserve the biological system. | ||||||||||
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