Discus Beef Heart recipe

all my discus are starting to eat it and ive only fed it 2 times. my 2 pairs dont leave left overs haha

thanks for this - very useful. I might try doing this myself. Let us know the final mix!!

Very intersting thread.While ive never kept discus it does raise our awareness however of what fish can and will eat.I say that can and will because its solely down to us as to what they get for their breakfast and dinner!!
How many fish are fed exclusively on flake food.nothing wrong with it Im sure but would you like eating beans on toast every day!(students exempt!). I feed frozen bloodworm on occassion and vary the flake and pellets.In the summer i try to breed live foods like daphnia and mosquito larvae. The fish go mad for it. Discus get the lovely beef but maybe we should all give this receipe a try for the other fish but as rightly mentioned make sure you water change after feeding because it will foul up the water.

Gavin

Not sure if this will influence your recipe but interesting study on wild Discus and their eating habits etc

"Bleher (2006, p. 510-595) reports detailed observational notes on the diet of discus, taken over many years of field visits to the Amazon basin. He undertook stomach content analyses on over 8,500 discus specimens and also made direct observations of feeding in the wild. Although most of his findings are reported qualitatively, Bleher (2006) presents some quantitative data for the volumetric dietary intake of S. haraldi (although numbers of specimens are not given, p. 593). During the high-water period he reports average stomach contents of: 12% algae and microalgae, 44% plant matter (flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves), 6% detritus, 16% aquatic invertebrates, and 22% terrestrial and arboreal arthropods. During the low water period he reports 25% algae and microalgae, 39% detritus, 9% plant matter, 22% aquatic invertebrates, and 5% terrestrial and arboreal arthropod"

Fishowner wrote:

Very intersting thread.While ive never kept discus it does raise our awareness however of what fish can and will eat.I say that can and will because its solely down to us as to what they get for their breakfast and dinner!!
How many fish are fed exclusively on flake food.nothing wrong with it Im sure but would you like eating beans on toast every day!(students exempt!). I feed frozen bloodworm on occassion and vary the flake and pellets.In the summer i try to breed live foods like daphnia and mosquito larvae. The fish go mad for it. Discus get the lovely beef but maybe we should all give this receipe a try for the other fish but as rightly mentioned make sure you water change after feeding because it will foul up the water.

Gavin

I think there's alot be said for varying the diet. I always have several different flake, frozen and live foods available and shelled peas frozen in ice cubes too. I think they enjoy the variety, even aside from the health benefits.

vaschro wrote:

Not sure if this will influence your recipe but interesting study on wild Discus and their eating habits etc

"Bleher (2006, p. 510-595) reports detailed observational notes on the diet of discus, taken over many years of field visits to the Amazon basin. He undertook stomach content analyses on over 8,500 discus specimens and also made direct observations of feeding in the wild. Although most of his findings are reported qualitatively, Bleher (2006) presents some quantitative data for the volumetric dietary intake of S. haraldi (although numbers of specimens are not given, p. 593). During the high-water period he reports average stomach contents of: 12% algae and microalgae, 44% plant matter (flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves), 6% detritus, 16% aquatic invertebrates, and 22% terrestrial and arboreal arthropods. During the low water period he reports 25% algae and microalgae, 39% detritus, 9% plant matter, 22% aquatic invertebrates, and 5% terrestrial and arboreal arthropod"

Sounds like in the dryer season they spend alot more time feeding off the bottom.