Feeding discus fish

The right feeding is one of the most important things if we want to have our discus fish healthy and beautiful. Below I will try to give you the most important feeding tips.

Discus fish like all other fishes needs a variety if talking about food. They need a lot of vitamins and minerals so food should be very different.

While your discus is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) you should feed it about 5 times a day. Later when you fish grows up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) you can feed only two times a day. Reduce feeding times every three to five days.  Don’t feed your discus fish when you are going to turn off the lights.

Don’t throw too much food for your fish because it can start rotting if your discus doesn’t eat all of it. That can make your water quality poor and can bring diseases to your aquarium.

Firstly, when buying the discus, you should ask the seller what type of food did he use when feeding discus fish. If you think that food was picked well for discus fish diet than you should follow using it further. If you decide to change the type of food than you shouldn’t do that too fast because changing food instantly can cause starvation of you discus. That can take up to one month. So you better firstly make a mix of 90% old food with 10% of new and see how your discus fish reacts. If the food fits to your discus fish than you should raise the quantity of new food up to 10% every next day until you reach the moment when it will eat only a new food. If you see that changes are going too fast – your discus isn’t eating so well like before, you should make changes slower.

It is a necessity to feed your discus fish with some live or frozen food. I recommend you to try some of these:

Frozen or Live Adult Brine Shrimp
Mosquito Larvae
White Worms 
Daphnia
Chopped up Red Worms
Mysis Shrimp
Glass Worms

If you use frozen food, don’t throw it to your aquarium at once because there can be frozen lot of parasites and other bad micro organisms. You should firstly wash it after running water. Do the same thing with you live food. Some extra care will help to avoid diseases.

Also don’t forget to give your discus  some pallete food. Moreover you can try giving raw turkey or beef hearts or livers chopped in small pieces. Some people think that it is the best food for this fish.

Discus fish feeding