Cultivation techniques discus

Native habitat discus (Symphysodon disc) was the Rio Negro and the calm waters of the Amazon River. Omnivorous nature. Movement is very smooth. This fish is also known as the "King of the Aquarium". Discus-called because the shape of her body round like a disc.
There are four species of cultivated discus even though they referred to as the discus, the Heckel Discus (Symphysodon disc), Brown Discus (Symphysodon aequifasciata axetrodi), Green Discus (Symphysodon aequifasciata aequifasciata), and Blue Discus (Symphysodon aequifasciata haroldi). Because so many fans, breeders and hobbyists creativity is needed to bring new and better varieties.
Until now, there are many varieties of discs, among them is the Red Pigeon, Marlboro, Brown Discus, and Cobalt. A good temperature range for maintenance discus 25-30 ° C. While the range of water quality such as acidity (pH) sufficient width of about 5 to 6.5 and soft water hardness between 3-5 ° dH.
Spawning discus is not a problem anymore for breeders and hobbyists. However, treatment should be done carefully. Selection of the parent should be appropriate to the child who produced high quality and high value. A good parent should be without a defect, healthy, active look, the shape proportionally, the largest size among age groups, obese, relatively large mouth, and more than a year old.
Mains very difficult discus imposed paired so often left to choose their own partners in the parent group of candidates. When it looks paired with the couple continued to swim along the stem can be separated from his group. Feeding the mother is a natural food like blood worms and mosquito larvae and artificial feed (pellets) for discus are sold in the market.
Nest eggs are usually made from pieces of plastic gutter placed in the corner or the middle of the aquarium in a standing position. As with other fish, discus any parent would clean the nest before laying her eggs.
The nature of this fish is very unique, ie eggs and larvae can not be separated from its mother. Therefore, the eggs were not separated from its mother and allowed to hatch in the spawning container. The eggs will hatch within 2-3 days. These larvae will continue to stick to its mother until the age of one week.
Usually the larvae will start to swim once a week old. Although it can swim, but the larvae will often stick to its mother until the age of 21 days. Some experts say that the discus larvae eat the slime that comes out of its mother's body or often called a "feed" on the parent. There are also experts who believe that the larvae are fed through the mouth of its mother.
Although this fish is famous for its eggs and care for her child, but there is also the parent who eat their own eggs. While swimming larvae that can not be eaten by its mother. Therefore, farmers usually provide insulation to limit the parent with the eggs. Bulkhead is made of fine wire that looped into the nest. The existence of this septum led to the parent can not reach the egg.
In addition to the bulkhead, the parent may also be replaced with the parent who has been known as nurse eggs and larvae are good. Replacement of the parent is done when finished spawning.Although the feed for the larvae derived from its parent, but it will be even better when added artemia nauplii, or filtered water fleas. When the larvae are separated from its parent, then the feed can be replaced
with a large water bug. However, the quality of the feed must be considered, especially food from nature, so that the fish avoid the disease.Diskus already a month old or more can be given feed silk worms, blood worms or mosquito larvae. Even the pellets can be given in adulthood. While the replacement of water during the enlargement should always be considered. replacement of water is routinely performed every 1-2 days as many as one third or half the volume of water. Size 4 cm or about 3 months old began to be sold.