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		AL (Trick and Treat): Trick I was very proud of my first batch of artificially raised Discus... I had been working out the kinks for months and had finally succeeded and raised out about 100 3 inch sized fry. I had pampered these fish. They were my babies. They were the result of a wild green male crossed with a blue snakeskin. I noticed 3 distinct types... those that were snakes, those that were like the wild green dad, and about 20 that had a red turq pattern... I split them into 3 tanks for grow outs. The tank containing the red turq like ones came down with some fungus... I had it overstocked, work got busy, and admittedly... I neglected it in favor of the other two tanks... My normal course of treatment would have been salt... but I was out and I was lazy... I knew formalin was anti-fungal, so I used Quick cure which has formalin and malachite green. Day 1 the fish were fine, day 2 they looked stressed... I did my normal water changes, and they seemed fine... day 3 I went downstairs and all 30 of these 3 inch fish were floating. Or dead on the bottom. The ammonia reading in the tank was off the chart even after a full water change... My bio filter was dead for days. I still use Quick cure for some things but have learned It can really be a quick cure for a tank of fish. Hard lesson learned. Treat I have to say that in all my discus keeping years, my best memories are of Simply Discus and its beginning. Seems like years ago that I posted on a bunch of boards and on one in particular had some issues with the owner. I was fed up and thought I’d try and buy the place and improve what I felt needed fixing. At that time I had become good friends with April. We talked a lot and she knew of my plans to either buy or make my own board. As fate would have it, April had another friend that was having issues with the same board I was. This guy was extremely bright, and knew his way around computers and software. He was also a fish addict. You all know him by the name of Ryan Smith, admin and webmaster extraordinaire for Simplydiscus. Thanks to April, Ryan and I got talking about making a Discus Forum that would be different from the others out there and we did. In my life, I dont think there are many things I am more proud of than this website. So Thank you April, Ryan, and everyone that makes this site what it is.

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