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		JE: Sounds like a neat trick! What do you feed your discus? JL: Mainly Beefheart mix, red wigglers and tetrabits. I also have Azoo and Krills on the minor scale. Discus can get by with just one meal a day with 100% BH plus tetrabits. That's what I fed them when I was in College. I didnt have enough time to sleep so mixing beefheart was out of a question. I let the fish tell me what they like best and feed them that on their last meal. In that way, they will clean up the left over from previous meals. It is important to have a balanced diet with lots of protein like red wrigglers. I drop the whole worm in the tank, let them have a tug of war and they also get their daily exercise with it. Each fish has their own preference. Forcing them to eat what you what them to is not a good idea. You end up having an unhappy and a sick fish. JE: What is your most exhilarating moment with discus? JL: The most exhilarating moment when I found out how to stop a pair from eating eggs. I had a pair of CEESOB (I borrowed this term from a member of the forum, and it stands for Chronic Egg Eating SOB.) Blue Diamonds which had been eating the eggs as soon as the female finished spawning. This went on for over a year. One day, I found a white spot on the tail of the male in the breeding tank. I took him out and PP him for a 30 minutes in a cooler with an air hose inside. I had an emergency call from the hospital and had to leave right away. I came back after 4 hours and found the airhose on the floor and the Blue Diamond had turned green and was lying on his side barely moving his gills. He was breathing only 5 breath per minutes. I put him back with the female in the breeding tank and went back to the hospital. He survived the ordeal and righted himself the next day. When I came down to the fish room the following day, I didnt find him bagging for food which was his normal reaction when he saw me. I actually expected that he would be floating on the surface, so that wasn’t so bad! What I found was amazing. He was guarding a batch of eggs. The near death experience had turned him into the best breeder Ive ever had. From that day on. I disinfect and de-worm all the breeders before adjusting the water parameters. I had many graduates from the School of CEESOB for my friends discus just by simply doing the same thing. JE: Wow. That is a great tip! What is your most frustrating moment with discus? JL: I had my share of disaster. I had one visitor accidentally knock over a jug of Muriatic Acid which had been sitting on top of the show tank with over 50 adults in it. He left without telling me about it. It was too late when I found out the cause of this catastrophe when I test the pH of the water. Not one single discus survived the incident. Thats frustrating, because I had no idea of what had caused the problem and when I finally figured it out, I was not happy! What we can learn from this incident is that you DON’T place any chemical or medication on top of the aquarium! JE: Do you have any future discus plans that you would like to share with us? JL: I am planning to get my hands wet on the wilds once again. I failed miserably many times on the wilds in the early years of discus keeping. I must have wiped out my stock completely at least 5 times and swore each time that I would not have discus for the rest of my life again. It must be the bug… After a cool off period for a year or two, I started buying them again. Information was not readily available in the early years. I had to find out the answers by trial and error with thousands of dollars down the drains. When I saw Dennis Hs Alenquer Curipera, I knew that some day I would have them in my tanks. Maybe as early as next year after I am done with Carys White Diamonds I won last New Years Day. They will be ready to spawn in the next few months. I will cross them with my solid yellow and solid red and see how they turn out. more...

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