Discus Questions?

[smaug]

Maybe you should look at upgrading the existing tank you have with the overcrowded goarami before tackling a discus tank?
Looking back I see that you have known the goarami needed a bigger tank a while back.
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[MandyK]

A HUGE +1 to Smaug.

[Lady10Godiva]

If I were you when you rehome the turtle I would move the gourami and friends into the 55 and let them have a little room.

I am not an expert but I am pretty sure a tank with discus, cories, khulis, and 2 species of tetra would be very overstocked and unhappy. I would hate to see you spend $300 on discus and then have them be unhappy.

[Carapar56]

Really? O.o I've seen several people, here and on youtube with almost the same set up I'm thinking of.. And Don't worry about my blue gourami, currently she's in a tank effected by fish TB. Fortunately for her she isn't showing symptoms as well as my 5 other platys. But I have one platy baby and a molly showing symptoms. I ordered the meds, and the special cleaner to sterilize the tank and eveything else. Later tonight I'm setting up a QT tank so they have somewhere clean to be dosed with their medications. If all goes well, my gourami and platies will remain in a 10 gallon until I free up my 20 gallon, after that, that'll become their new home.

I honestly believe a 55 gallon would be fine for 4 - 6 discus, a pair of GBR, a school or two of tetras, and some corys and loaches. I mean discus generally stay in the mid to top of the tank so they won't bother the loaches or corys. And there's plenty of bottom space for the two species. I know the GBR pair will do just fine with the loaches and corys and a school or two of tetras, being less then 10 each would swim alongside the discus.. If I do the correct water changes and keep the water clean. In theory it should work, correct?

I mean really.. Why waste my only 55 gallon on my 4 inch blue gourami and platies... I wouldn't be able to house any other fish with them do to a scare of another round of fish TB so uhm no. Being as that topic is 2 years old not all those fish are there. The 10 gallon currently hold my 4 inch Blue Gourami, a black molly, 3 platys, a variatus, and two small baby platys, one being about 2 cm long and the other being 3/4 cm long.

[Lady10Godiva]

I just ran through aqadvisor this combo, 5 discus, 6 kuhlis, 6 cories, 2 gbr, 8 serpae, and 8 emperor tetras and it came up 131% stocked, way overstocked....and the only reason it said filtration was okay was because I put a rena xp3 canister filtet on there rated for 175 gallons.

Just because people on youtube do it and post about it doesnt make it right.

I am not trying to sound mean, but discus are a large monetary investment and the money you would spend on them could buy a pretty nice over 100 gallon setup on craigslist and then you can start saving up for expensive fish. That is just my opinion.

[Carapar56]

I guess your right then :/ Maybe I'll wait and get a much bigger tank after I find a new job... Do you know of any larger schooling fish that would work with kuhli loaches, corys, GBR, and some tetra? Anything over 3 or 4 inches would be nice. I just want a larger fish in a school of like 6 fish for the tank

[MandyK]

I don't think it is a question of whether you could have the other fish with the Discus, it is a question of whether you could keep the tank clean enough for the Discus with all the others in there. I've heard it's hard enough to do with the Discus alone.

[Carapar56]

Its fine I've decided against it. If this topic could be closed or locked that be great.