Diskusy - a school of aquarium fish. Experts advise to keep them in groups. The discus aquarium should be at least 45 cm high, and the volume is calculated from this calculation: about 50 liters of water are needed per adult, and about 30 liters for a teenager. And it should be remembered that in a large aquarium it will be easier for you to maintain constant conditions for discus content.
An aquarium with fish should be in the most secluded place of the room, near it you should not make noise and bang loudly. At night, it should not get headlights or street lamps.
The water temperature in the aquarium with discus should be kept within + 30 ° C. And you need to change the water quite often: 2-3 times a week.
Contents of discus with other fish
Such unusual conditions of detention may be simply fatal for other fish. In addition, almost every aquarium fish is a carrier of various diseases, although it itself is not sick. And because the discus immunity is not high enough, it is likely that fish can sooner or later get sick.
Eat discus rather slowly, so that other, more agile aquarium inhabitants, can leave them without food. Some fish, for example, lorikarii, suck the body of discus, tidying up with the fish's milk. In this case, catfish sometimes cause quite dangerous injuries to discus, from which they may even die. Frequent changes in water in the aquarium can also adversely affect the health of other fish.
Therefore, experts advise to keep discus separately from other types of aquarium fish.
But if you still decided to settle in with other fish, then it's better if they are aquarium pets with similar conditions of detention. For example, armored catfishes, panda corridors, corridoras sherbas or
In conditions of high temperature and intensive water exchange, the brocaded pterygo-flichthis also feels quite good, which can also be populated with discus. In addition, this species of catfish cleans the glass of the aquarium well.
There is a certain compatibility of discus with some other fish, such as scaly and red neon, blue congo and botsia clown, red tetra, apple snail and various shrimp.