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Hey all,
well I went out yesterday, with the goal of getting a nice pair of red or yellow discus.
At the store I went to, the Discus were amazing.
The prices were too...299 dollars and up for any fish in
the place! However, they did have a buy 2 get 1 free
and a 50% off sale going on, as they are moving locations soon.
So, while debating whether or not to get the trio of Marlboro Discus and Snow white x Lemon Discus,
My eyes lighted upon the tank full of small angels.
So, I ended up coming home with a trio of pea/dime size Angelfish instead! And a nice trio of some of the nicest looking Kuhli loaches I have ever seen (and only 2.99 each!).
Well, the little Angels are currently settling into my 10g tank, just so I can watch em, and feed em to grow em out a bit.I got one gold halo - which is solid gold with the pearlscale gene, and will develop a bright yellow forehead with maturity. I got one Koi angel, which carries both the red koi and pearscale gene, and I got one Smokey Blue, which will be similar to grey leopard, with multiple blue spots/halos on its forehead, particularly ounced if it
ends up being a male.
So, once these new finny friends grow up a bit, they will move first to my 25g to grow out a bit more, then finally into the 75g.
They are super nice and cute too, and very very healthy.
Ive rarely seen tiny angels like this so healthy and happy before.
This guy I got them off of, breeds most of the fish he sells in his store himself, and it is definitely worth every penny extra I paid for them!
Man, I sure love Angelfish I guess!
I will post pics soon!


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Sounds a very good trip to the LFS for you. If you still want the discus offer him a price and see what happens.

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$299 for a Discus ... ouch.

Mind you, I've not long ago finished posting in the marine forums ... Sirbooks was interested in Resplendent Angels, but I think he'll be less than happy at the prices I quoted for that species ... even when the supply line existed (which it doesn't anymore) this was a £200 fish in UK shops, and now, anyone who has one alive in their aquaria is sitting on, wait for it, a £2,000 fish ... pop into the marine forums and find out why

And I thought £60 for an iridescent lavender Discus was expensive at Maidenhead Aquatics ... heh.


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STARTING at $299? Or $2 Dollars and 99 Cents? Any place that has fish STARTING at $299. is too rich for me. I think I would break into hives just walking in there. If the whole store were Koi that's one thing... even they are priced a little high for me.

Sounds like you had a great trip though!

Yes - please post pics

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Yep starting at two hundred and ninety nine dollars.
The cheapest you will ever see Discus here where
I live is in the nature of
80 dollars and up.


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By way of comparison, Discus prices where I live vary enormously depending upon whether they're plain Brown Discus (it's possible to secure small juveniles for £5 each, adults for £10-£15 depending on size), while fancy colour varieties command considerably higher price tags - I recently saw some lovely Lavender Discus for £60 a pop, but these were 5 inch adults. I suspect small ones the size of a 50p coin would be nearer £15-£20.

The ones that cost astronomical sums over here tend to be colour varieties with large amounts of red, because keeping them coloured up can be difficult. Heavily red colour varieties need iron-rich substrates and additional iron in their food, and if they're bred in the aquarium, the breeding aquarium again needs to be an iron-rich environment. In their native waters, Discus that live in rivers where iron is in plentiful supply have bolder red markings on them than those living in waters with lower iron content. The big problem is making the iron available in a form that the Discus can get at - in their native waters, the iron isn't locked away as insoluble precipitates, it's available in slime substances produced by various substrate bacteria and other organisms, which then pass the iron on up the food chain via small freshwater crustaceans that the Discus feed upon. Which includes juvenile Macrobrachium shrimps. So anyone interested in keeping a heavily red-coloured Discus strain might like to experiment with farming some Macrobrachium shrimps in an aquarium with an iron rich substrate, feed the shrimps iron rich foods, then feed the juvenile shrimps to the Discus. If this proves to be a useful means of keeping red strains of Discus richly coloured, who knows, it could bring the prices down for those strains.


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