Quarantin Procedures for Discus in new homes

[standoyo]

Originally Posted by ferdinc

Happy new year!! Do you know if the tank background and surrounding afeect the fish color? I am not talking about different light or anything, I am talking about white vs balck or dark blue backgrouns...Would the fish change its color or do fish camouflage?

discus are camouflage fish...like angels with their bars to confuse predators.
so what you see in lfs are usually light coloured tanks for discus.

golden and pigeon bloods have tendency to show greying/peppering when in planted tank or dark conditions.
even a piece of wood is enough to make it show it's peppering.
the breeding form will also accentuate it's pigmentation.

[ferdinc]

I will change the background tonight to see if the true color of the fish will come up..I have couple plants though

I spotted a fish with potentially bad eye (eye looks good, no cloud but he misses the food since his first day in the tank,maybe has cross eye ), what can be done to treat it. Also that fish is chased by the dominant guy a lot, and he got stressed..I saw one really little white spot on it...the temp is 86, do I need to do anything special? I am not sure if taking him to hospital tank alone would stress him even further...His fins are not clamped for now...

(I know I ask many questions but I hope these are helpful, if the questions I am asking were answered before, please just send me the link)

Thanks a million!!

FE

[standoyo]

well what is the true colours of the fish? hmmm? certainly in the wild they have darker colours...
don't worry...the still love you...they know who is the hand that feeds...smarter than GF...haha oops did i offend GF lovers? sorry...

[ferdinc]

what do you think about the second part of my last posting? The eye problem?
FE

[Whoopee]

Originally Posted by standoyo

don't worry...the still love you...they know who is the hand that feeds...smarter than GF...haha oops did i offend GF lovers? sorry...

Ouch....that hurts! I guess i hv to enrol my future GF for Face Recognition and Feeding class 101 next time too.

[chochiss]

Originally Posted by standoyo

well what is the true colours of the fish? hmmm? certainly in the wild they have darker colours...
don't worry...the still love you...they know who is the hand that feeds...smarter than GF...haha oops did i offend GF lovers? sorry...

Dun worry man. As for gf, they will recongize any hands who will feed them. hehe......real big eaters & they are not bothered by who feeds them as long as "the hand" with their food is "the man" for them.

[standoyo]

actually GF are smart that way...it's just sad for owner as the fellas are not loyal...anybody that can give them a meal...

[standoyo]

Fethi,

about the eye... it usually occurs with poor water conditions. a good wc usually takes care of it. some salt. do it promptly or the damage maybe permanent.

[Andrew Soh]

You mean to say I'm old 'like.....er', son?

I didn't create the pro-more when I was 20 years old. If I did and have consumed it....maybe I might have children of 32 years old...due to loss of self control....

Ferdinc,

You are right. Different colour surrounding will affect the tone and shade of discus colour.....similar to that of natural camourflage....though they are not that good at it.

Take care,
Andrew (the old man)

[ferdinc]

Thanks Andrew /Stan.
I guess as the fish has the eye problem (even though there is no cloudy eye) since the day one, may be the lfs didn't keep the tanks as clean. Now, I will keep doing regular WC. Since this fish is the only one with cross eye , I will be watching too see if others will develop similar problem hehe