Taken today.

Nice dude, I am bored with some of my fish and am going to get rid of some of my big dogs....I am thinking I might do a discus tank with about 10 of them.

Nice, I know I'm going to get 4 more! When you are ready to set up your tank PM me with any questions you have!

Great looking discus, Mike!!

They're beautiful!

Thank you!

Seeing how pretty yours are makes me want to try them again sometime, but I seriously could not deal if I got another batch of wusses like last time.

Who did you get them from?

Got them from John.

They were really pretty and healthy and all that, but the hiding, the skittishness, and did I mention the hiding. If I came within 5 feet of the tank they'd all hide in the plants and mostly stay there until I left.

I ended up letting my mom take them, they still don't like people, but she has far more patience for 'em then I do, so she doesn't mind.

Thats right I remember now. Did you ever try what I had suggested with them?

Yea. They still didn't give me any love. It may have been my own fault though. I might have expected them to act more like cichlids than they ever really do.

I've had a few uaru in the past and I was told behavior wise they were very similar to discus, but the uaru could hang with JDs no trouble, but I'm near 100% sure that even the tiniest of JDs would make the discus it's bitch.

Um yes. My discus when I come into the room will swim right up to the glass and follow me but if I make any quick moves they will freekout and swim franticly trying to find a place to hide.

If you do get discus try and make your presents known from an early age be it when feeding them, doing a water change or just hanging out watching them swim.