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    How to keep your discus from getting fat

    Okay, I don't know how some of you stand it. Every time we get close to the tank the discus race over with those pitiful stares and I can't help but drop in a few color bits. They are just pitiful and such beggers! We've decided to feed them several times a day with much smaller amounts due to this very fact.

    And before anyone gets excited this post is mostly tic. It is very hard not to feed them all the time, but we don't :)

    Oh and when I change their water they run and hide in a corner, but when Karen changes it they nibble her hands. Hmmmm, I think someone has been bribing the fish..........
    Karen
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    Originally posted by thekarens View Post
    Oh and when I change their water they run and hide in a corner, but when Karen changes it they nibble her hands. Hmmmm, I think someone has been bribing the fish..........



    You gotta watch those little beggars or they will eat you out of house and home.
    Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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    • #3
      your very lucky ...some discus can be pretty finicky on eating ...i always thought the point was to fatten them up nothing looks better than a discus with alot of meat on their bones....mmm delicious :)
      25g - Reef
      3.5g - Surge Tank
      10g - Ichthyophthirius multifilis breeding colony

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      • #4
        Lol true, we want them to be fat and it is fun when they beg. Not all of them are thrilled with the granules, pellets but they all go crazy over the bloodworms and beefheart.
        Karen

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        • #5
          sounds like they are doing very well.... congrats
          65 gallon - ADA 120p - planted
          55 gallon - AGA standard - mix cichlid
          30 gallon tall - eclipse acrylic - semi-planted

          live and let live

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          • #6
            If it's of any help to you, they do slowly outgrow some of their "cute", but they still beg none the less. The cute gets replaced with an attitude btw, so you still have their attitude to deal with .
            Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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            • #7
              Oh one already has attitude. Karen is convinced its a girl because of it. She's named her Domino as in dominant one. I told her it was short for dominatrix (sp)
              Karen

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              • #8
                I actually like it. The ones I have one of them will come and peck at my fingers to get food.
                Resident fish bum
                330G FOWLR
                34G Reef
                330G Discus biotopish (no longer running)
                28G JBJ Reef (no longer running)
                Treasurer, GHAC

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                • #9
                  that is sooooo cool.....
                  try to video this stuff.....you know we are visual peeps on here.....)

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                  • #10
                    yeah, all of mine eat bloodworms right out of my hands. but if my girlfriend so much as opens the lid, they quickly hide in the back of the tank. I know it is because I am the one who feeds them, but she wont touch bloodworms. we are still in the process of switching them to granules.
                    250gallon-Wild Angels, community

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                    • #11
                      That's why we call them our little "Piggies"
                      www.ventralfins.com

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