here is a link that may help.
Discus
I appologize if this reply seemed smart...at all. I was replying from work and was keeping it brief. HOWEVER, I will stand with my position that this is not a discus forum. I do not wish to sound ......smart, when I ask what makes you so special that you deserve your own section on freshwater discus in this forum on REEF keeping? I simply ask you to defend that question. I am simply trying to prove the point here and it is in NO WAY personal! pm me and I will give you me phone number and share with with much insight to your endeavor as I too have acheived much in the freshwater realm.
Alas, I had to finally take the plunge into saltwater...and not just satlwater, but REEFKEEPING. Which is a TOTALLY different ball-game. ( keeping saltwater fish....yeah, ok. An sps reef? .....out of the park!
I too was sooooo technical, and compicated in my methods in freshwater that I had the confindence that I could handle reefkeeping ( wiht caution)........and then I learned how little did I know, and how little do I still know! This forum is about a community of people that in actuality know very little individualy ( albeit a few experts and longtimers). Its all about what we can share as a whole.
and for as little we all know....you are asking us to deviate from our focus on REEFKEEPING and somehow give you credit and respect for taking on a few discus.....that you don't even know how to care for? This is why I refered you to a discus forum, in that they will be more able to help you.
I too considerd discus at one time. I never kept them. not that they scarred me away or it was too complicate, but that If I was to keep discus I would have devoted no less than a 180g heavely planted tank running a c02 system, using rodi water, running ho lights to grow the plants...but yet having a full canopy of plants to shade the fish. at least for wild caught discus. For store bought tank bred discus....I'd throw them in ANY fw tank cuz they are NOTHING like F-1 stock.
I hope you, and anyone who reads this can appreciate that I reserve the right to be offended when someone tells me that I deserve no respect for my achievment of keeping a reeftank, and that it is no more involved than keeping a fw discus tank. and that you appreciate that the subject here is reefkeeping. not discus frontiers.
In closing, you do yourself and your fellow discus keepers no justice by resorting to a reefkeeping forum to answer your question about discus fish. and what exactly are we supposed to know? everything? I promise you I will not go to a discus forum to ask advise anything not related to discus...and not insult them by claiming my hobby is as invovled as theirs and hence implying that I belong there.
Good luck!
again im sry drew just being me and cpt obvious or a smartars as some would say.
