Windy read some about how to rear Discus fish and because of the nature of Discus and their natural habitat in the Amazon, South America, this fish needs some “hiding” places. Their graceful and shy temperament is beholden to having places where they are not too exposed. Besides it also serves as their mating grounds and they need it to lay and hatch their eggs.
So, off Windy went to the fish shop and bought a big piece of driftwood. Driftwood also has a good result as it treats the water to be softer. He noticed that his Discus fish were lacking Oxygen and to solve that he bought an air pump to aerate the water. Doing this would oxygenate the water in the aquarium.
Then horrors! The driftwood wouldn’t sink to the bottom of the aquarium. Windy had to hold it down with two bricks for several hours till the driftwood was densely permeated with water. The Discus fish clearly did not like the intrusion and kept darting back and forth inside the aquarium thereby making Windy’s work more difficult.
Here is a photo of the landscaped aquarium, still with half a brick holding the driftwood down till Windy can remove the brick later.
Landscaped Aquarium
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how many discus does windy have? he really loves pets ah
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Lainybelle Reply:
October 18th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
@KM,
She got 9 for now, KM. Yep, he loves pets
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Those are beautiful fish!
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hi lainy, drropping by for Orange Tuesday, i hope you can visit me at http://www.prettysinglemom.com/2011/10/night-bla.html for my OT
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Yan pala ang Discus fish? different colors pala? i like the colors.
Btw Lain. wala jud nku nkuha ang postcard. Not only the postcard but also other postmails. There were three nga wala jud nku nkuha ky ato nga time nagkabikil mi sa guard didto sa akong former home. Cge na lamang. Naa man kasuko ang guard nku hehehe
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Lovely fishes! ♥
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Lovely fishes. I like aquariums because they’re relaxing. Sadly, I don’t have the patience to take care of fishes, hehe. Windy must be a very patient person and a genuine pet lover.
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nice fish!..
thanks for joining!
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Ooh, what a lovely aquarium, i wish we had one but our house is still not organize to have. till monday
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