Discus fish are a finicky bunch. They have a tendency to be very vulnerable to disease and environmental disturbances. It can even be hard to get them to mate for breeding purposes if the proper care and environment isn’t provided. Without the right nutrition, water temperature, and other living requirements, your discus fish will have trouble thriving.

Sounds bad, right? If  you are looking to own or already have discus fish, then there are several things that you need to learn to insure their survival. The following are a few tips I’ve picked up raising my own aquarium, and should be of use to you. Breeders especially need to heed these words as discus fish do not mate unless they are 100% happy.

1. Make sure you have several in one tank. Discus fish like to group up in schools, the fish equivalent to a herd. As such they tend not to like being alone so make sure to give your fishy some friends.
2. Keep track of pH level of the water, it shouldn’t be to acidic or base. If you can keep your tank’s water around a neutral 7, you would be fine.
3. Changing out the water is a must and is extremely important with discus fish because they’re prone to disease. About a quarter of the water should be changed out for new, fresh water about once a week. This is because an aquarium is a closed system and thus water, fish waste, and bacteria are enclosed with the fish and don’t get flushed out naturally.
4. Discus fish need a relatively high water temperature to live. Keeping your tanks temperature around 30 degree Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) will do the trick.

Those are just a few quick tips for you in how to better care for your discus fish. That’s all I have for you, but if your looking for more information you should visit this website.

Owning a home aquarium can be an expensive proposition for most beginners. It can be difficult particularly if you don’t know how to actually begin. There are a few decisions that need to be decided first be for you go out and buy something. You need to decide how large of an aquarium you’d like and where to place it in the house. If you’d like to have a very large fish tank, make sure that you have a space in your home that can not only be big enough to have the aquarium in the space and hold over 50 gallons of water or more.

With those two decisions out of the way you can go out and look at getting an aquarium case. You should also get a heavy duty stand as well if you are purchasing a larger tank. To get one cheaply you could look in pawn shops or even online at site like Ebay and Craigslist.

After you have your tank and its placement we need to make sure we have all the proper aquarium accessories. This includes, gravel/rocks for the bottom of the fish tank, heater if you have tropical fish, a water filter, starter bacteria or old aquarium water and lights. These are the essentials for all aquarium setups.

The next decision is over the kinds of fish you’d like. There are two types, freshwater and saltwater, and choosing between the two determines the kind of water that is placed in the aquarium. You may want to visit a local pet or aquarium shop for advice on particular types of fish you’d like to own.

Finding a proper used fish tank for sale can be a difficult task, especially online. That’s why at geminiifish.com provides listings of many different kinds of auqariums; small, acrylic, fresh water and salt water are all accounted for. Cheap aquariums are at very good prices are what we provide here and we hope to help you find where to buy fishtanks. Here we try to help folks begin their aquariums setups at home even if you are beginner.