I recently purchased 2 small discuses about 1-2inches from a local fish store. Their doing great very active, look healthy, and not even shy. The problem I have is getting them to eat. Its been 3 days now and I feed it the Hikari bloodworms. One I see seems to like eating then spitting the worms out a few times in a row and the other eats but rarely. Is this something to be worried about?
2007-06-12 10:19:07 · 4 answers · asked by Askani 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
Call the pet store today and find out exactly what they were feeding the Discus. Go get this food and start feeding them on it right away. Raise the temperature to the low 80s, make sure the water is clean and all of the basic Discus things. After they are eating the food they were used to for at least a week start adding 10-20% of another food with the food they are used to. You can slowly increase this amount over a time period of a few weeks and then do the same with another food. I would recommend not feeding blood worms to them at all. Jack Wattley strongly recommends against feeding blood worms because they can get caught in the Discus's intestines and kill the fish. I've personally never had this problem with Discus though why risk it when there are so many other live foods around. Jack Wattley knows more about Discus than I ever expect to learn and he is a very nice gentleman that really cares about fish and the hobby so I believe him.
2007-06-12 10:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One would suspect that they've been grown on with some other food and are having difficulty recognising blood worm as food, keep at it eventually they'll get used to what it is and i would also try to introduce other foods from the start otherwise you'll have the same problem.
When I was breeding these I used to raise them on beefheart maybe you should try some of that mixed with the blood worm. You can buy it frozen from your pet stores id have thought.
AJ
2007-06-12 10:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by andyjh_uk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try this web site, it helped me a lot with my Discus fish.
http://www.tinkerfish.com/discus/
Here are a few more places http://www.discusfishuk.com/ , http://aquariumlore.blogspot.com/2006/03/discus-fish.html , http://www.discus-fish-secrets.com/discuscare.htm , http://www.discuspro.com/care.htm
2007-06-12 10:22:53 · answer #3 · answered by Stu Pididiot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe they're vegetarians
2007-06-12 10:21:26 · answer #4 · answered by Alejandro 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋