Re: [GSAS-Member] Angels and Discus

["SUSAN WELENOFSKY" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Angels are more aggressive than discus. They will hog all the food leaving the 
discus little if any.

Susan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: HIRO TAK 
  To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat 
  Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Angels and Discus


    I know it probably I am not in the position to give you my thought about 
your C*chlid question.
    But here is what I READ about the mixing of Discus and Angelfish.

  Like the fish store guy, the parasite or disease from Angelfish is always a 
concern.  Since the Discus is more delicate.  But like you said, your Angel 
should be clean.

    And another concern is mentioned often is the food.  I think the Angel 
would out compete for food.  Since Discus is slower and more timid than Angels. 
 I would imagine even more so since your Discus are wild.  
    So it is possible that the Discus is not getting enough food.  

    Of course, there is always the possibility that the wild Discus have some 
kind of worm or parasite in their gut.  

    So I think any case keeping Discus and Angels is not a bad idea.  
Especially the Valuable wild Discus probably deserve their own tank if you have 
space.

    I am not saying that keeping them together does not work and some people 
say they have no problem but not always seem to work.  And usually more Discus 
and few Angels.  And bigger Discus and smaller Angels.

    This is just what I read.  And as you know I am just a bigger of world of 
C*chlids.

    Hope someone like Steev would answer your parasite/disease question.


  Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org> wrote: I have a couple of young wild heckel 
discus that I got this last  
  summer - They are up to about 4" but after Steve's talk I realized  
  they are too skinny (Thanks for that talk Steve - I have already used  
  it! )

  They are in a well planted 40 gallon with RAMS and Angels and some  
  plecos - Two of the angels have paired off and I plan to remove the  
  other angel. The water is at 6.6 PH and temp is 80.

  The guy at the fish store claimed that discus and angels should not  
  be put together because the angels had some parasite that would  
  attack the discus (These angels are all my own bred and raises so I  
  find that questionable) He says I should remove all the angels.

  I may do that anyway since the breeding pair are hogging the tank now  
  but are there other reasons I should?

  Should I remove the discus to a hospital tank - I have a 10 gallon  
  setup I could use to treat them and if so what would I treat them  
  for? There are no signs of problems except their being very skinny.

  If I remove them to the hospital tank I would probably use salt to  
  treat them as well as raise the temp and try to feed them up more.

  Any advice??

  Linda
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