Discus
Symphysodon aequifasciatus
Wants warm, clean, soft water and company of its own kind.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 18 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 250 L, at least 120 cm long
- Temperature
- 27 to 30 °C
- pH
- 6 to 7.2
- Hardness
- 1 to 8 dGH
- Kept in
- groups of 5 or more
- Temperament
- peaceful
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- at every level
- How hard
- hard
- Lives
- about 10 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether discus fit the tank you have.