discus in galway

is there anyone in galway or maybe mayo region thats breeding and selling discus? i'm looking for 5 or more for my 500l planted tank, there is one pair in there at the minute that have just started to lay eggs but i want some more to make a bigger shoal. all the usual shops only have crap from **** and i'm wrried about imported fish because of water chemistry, i got my first few of a lad called ralph in galway but he's not answering texts or his phone, is there anyone thats not advertising thats doing decent fish at a decent price? n ot fussed about show quality just healthy happy fish for myself

If you just lived closer

Theres a guy on leitrem,hes ads plastered all over donedeal sellin stendker discus,they are ok in hard water

Sebastian in Galway does good discus, breeds them himself

any phone number for him

cichliddave wrote:

Theres a guy on leitrem,hes ads plastered all over donedeal sellin stendker discus,they are ok in hard water

been ringing him all day.....mustn't want to sell any discus

anyone got a number for sebastian in galway?

got thru to paul in leitrim yesterday evening, 6 fire red were deliverd into my tank this afternoon, i'll get pics when they settle in properly

serious3 wrote:

got thru to paul in leitrim yesterday evening, 6 fire red were deliverd into my tank this afternoon, i'll get pics when they settle in properly

Looking forward to see the pics

How big are they?

Discus-Killester wrote:

serious3 wrote:

got thru to paul in leitrim yesterday evening, 6 fire red were deliverd into my tank this afternoon, i'll get pics when they settle in properly

Looking forward to see the pics

How big are they?

Yep Me too.

CrustyCrab wrote:

Discus-Killester wrote:

serious3 wrote:

got thru to paul in leitrim yesterday evening, 6 fire red were deliverd into my tank this afternoon, i'll get pics when they settle in properly

Looking forward to see the pics

How big are they?

Yep Me too.

you know where the house is pete

That I do, was just waiting for the invite Vincent

Any pics or videos mate?

Thanks

Sina

patience grasshopper! they have settled in, well 5 of them have.... one is still a bit shy but all are eating prima, catfish pellets and tetra pro so they must be feeling ok, i'll get pics up in a day or so when they colour up some more

Nice tank, nice setup!

How many liters? What filters do you use?

Thanks

Sina

I think he said it was 500 litres, and I am sure it's run with an Eheim
@Vince give me a shout when the Tea is made, that is if you have any Butter!

its about 500l its 5x2x2 it runs on 2 fluval external filters, jbl substrates, no co2, fert and easy carbo everyday, no idea what the ph is, what the nitrates are or the phosphates either. i know the water is soft and thats about it. clean the filters every 2 weeks, 20% water every 2 weeks, must be doing something right as the adult discus are laying eggs, the angels breed every 2 weeks and the plants are growing out the tank!!

Most LFS will test your water for you

and if you ask nicely Crusty will do it

meh....

meh... ????? dont understand??????

i've tested the water once in a year, the fish didn't look right so i tested it....nothing out of the ordinary showed up, i'm a great believer in keeping hands out of the tank and not fiddling or faffing with water and treatments. had a problem with algae once, that was cured by feeding the plants some more and a decent water change. i'd be very confident if you did test it everything would be spot on.

jaysus you only test once a year, your either the best fishkeeper on the planet or extremely lucky, i would not go a month without testing parameters, the fish may not look stressed but that dosent mean everythings ok... if you live in a city full of smog you would get used to it, and only notice a difference in your health if you then moved to the countryside... i've kept fish over 30years now and would never consider nyself expert enough to judge a fish by the way it looks.... surviving isnt thriving.... fish will breed in a bucket of crap if the urge takes them so that isnt a way to judge your parameters, some fish spawn in these conditions as a mechanism to try to have the species survive when the fresh water comes with the rains...

as for "all the usual shops only have crap from ****" there is only one shop in Galway that buys tropicals from ****, and another 2 that only buy coldwater fish from them and none of these shops as far as i'm aware have ever been a sponsor of this forum. but anyway thanks for a bit of a laugh with the "i'm wrried about imported fish because of water chemistry" considering you only test once a year, i'd be more worried for the bought fish than those whom have gotten used to your parameters.

sheag35 wrote:

jaysus you only test once a year, your either the best fishkeeper on the planet or extremely lucky, i would not go a month without testing parameters, the fish may not look stressed but that dosent mean everythings ok... if you live in a city full of smog you would get used to it, and only notice a difference in your health if you then moved to the countryside... i've kept fish over 30years now and would never consider nyself expert enough to judge a fish by the way it looks.... surviving isnt thriving.... fish will breed in a bucket of crap if the urge takes them so that isnt a way to judge your parameters, some fish spawn in these conditions as a mechanism to try to have the species survive when the fresh water comes with the rains...

as for "all the usual shops only have crap from ****" there is only one shop in Galway that buys tropicals from ****, and another 2 that only buy coldwater fish from them and none of these shops as far as i'm aware have ever been a sponsor of this forum. but anyway thanks for a bit of a laugh with the "i'm wrried about imported fish because of water chemistry" considering you only test once a year, i'd be more worried for the bought fish than those whom have gotten used to your parameters.

more than once I've heard of people being upset that a newly introduced fish doesn't last in their tank even though all the other already there seem to be fine. if the others are fine, the new one must have been sick because of the shop, right? when in fact it's that the ones already there have simply acclimatised.

though I would agree with not tinkering too much with water chemistry via "treatments"

serious3 wrote:

Lovely looking fish and tank. Wish you well with your new additions...

sheag35 wrote:

jaysus you only test once a year, your either the best fishkeeper on the planet or extremely lucky, i would not go a month without testing parameters, the fish may not look stressed but that dosent mean everythings ok... if you live in a city full of smog you would get used to it, and only notice a difference in your health if you then moved to the countryside... i've kept fish over 30years now and would never consider nyself expert enough to judge a fish by the way it looks.... surviving isnt thriving.... fish will breed in a bucket of crap if the urge takes them so that isnt a way to judge your parameters, some fish spawn in these conditions as a mechanism to try to have the species survive when the fresh water comes with the rains...

as for "all the usual shops only have crap from ****" there is only one shop in Galway that buys tropicals from ****, and another 2 that only buy coldwater fish from them and none of these shops as far as i'm aware have ever been a sponsor of this forum. but anyway thanks for a bit of a laugh with the "i'm wrried about imported fish because of water chemistry" considering you only test once a year, i'd be more worried for the bought fish than those whom have gotten used to your parameters.

i'll borrow my mates kit and test it this week, warts and all i'll put up the results for all to see

i mentioned **** because i've had bad experience both in the shop and at home, i was worried about the other discus as a lot of discus breeders keep their fish in artificialy sterile water parameters!

serious3 wrote:

sheag35 wrote:

jaysus you only test once a year, your either the best fishkeeper on the planet or extremely lucky, i would not go a month without testing parameters, the fish may not look stressed but that dosent mean everythings ok... if you live in a city full of smog you would get used to it, and only notice a difference in your health if you then moved to the countryside... i've kept fish over 30years now and would never consider nyself expert enough to judge a fish by the way it looks.... surviving isnt thriving.... fish will breed in a bucket of crap if the urge takes them so that isnt a way to judge your parameters, some fish spawn in these conditions as a mechanism to try to have the species survive when the fresh water comes with the rains...

as for "all the usual shops only have crap from ****" there is only one shop in Galway that buys tropicals from ****, and another 2 that only buy coldwater fish from them and none of these shops as far as i'm aware have ever been a sponsor of this forum. but anyway thanks for a bit of a laugh with the "i'm wrried about imported fish because of water chemistry" considering you only test once a year, i'd be more worried for the bought fish than those whom have gotten used to your parameters.

i'll borrow my mates kit and test it this week, warts and all i'll put up the results for all to see

btw, i'm not saying necessarily that your tank hasn't got healthy parameters or that you don't keep beautiful, thriving fish. all i'm saying is that keeping fish without using a test kit is a bit like driving from the pub drunk and making it home without incident; you can do it for years, but all it takes is that one time....

Them discus have settled in,smashin tank,cardinals look hugh a healthy,r them rainbows nit a bit bosterous for discus

they are a bit quick alright! i was thinking of re-homing them to be honest. they don't fit in with the rest of the tank, they were bought by me last year as i wanted to get a big shoal of them but the missus insisted she wanted discus....cardinals are huge i cheated and ordered them from seahorse ireland 6mths ago