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Tropical Discus Fish |
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Feeding Discus Fish Feeding your discus fish can sometimes to a bit of a challenge. Like the majority of fish and animals they have certain nutritional requirements. Whereas with the discus they do no have any unique nutritional requirements so they can be fed on pretty much any high protein fish food. However this doesn’t mean you can chop and change there food on a weekly or monthly basis as they can be a little bit stubborn when accepting the new fish food given to them. If you do try and change they food around don’t panic straight away if you find they are going for days or even weeks without food, generally speaking they appear to starve themselves for about a month but will then start to pick at it. After the discus starving for a couple of weeks to a month you may find this stunts there growth slightly on a younger fish due to them possibly being a bit stressed already from there move. A great tip to remember when purchasing your discus fish is ask the staff what they have been feeding them that way you can purchase the exact same food sand you won’t feel stressed to see how much if any food they are eating. Discus fish do not appear to have any teeth instead they have what we would describe them as grinder in there jaws. So they can not just eat food whole they have a tendency to take the food in there mouths but then spit it back out again they will continue to do this until they have eaten it all. As the discus makes a bit of mess eating and breaks the food into lots of pieces, these little particles tend to fall to the bottom of the tank but believe it or not these do not go to waste. The discus almost swirls (expels) the water which make the stranded food particles rise then they pick them up with there mouths and eat them as they begin to float.
Beef heart (see image below) is also a common source of food that discus love to eat. Beef heart is sometimes available ready cubed, this may sound a great simple and easy option but when this is being cubed they do not take off any fat, gristle or sinew which can be very harmful for your discus fish. Removing the fat and gristle from cubed beef heart is just to small and fiddly to do so buy large pieces of heart this may seem more time consuming but will be a lot healthier and easier for your fish to eat. |
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