Seachem Discus Buffer

© Maurizio Santoloc

We all know how hard to keep Discus fish tank. Discus fish must be one of the most sensitive fresh water fish to keep in a fish tank. They are so sensitive about everything, food, water conditions, temperature, tank-mates etc. Most of these things we can control like food, tank-mates, temperature etc But keeping the right water condition is very complicated. Specially if you are new to Discus fish keeping.

There are several variables like PH value, calcium and magnesium values etc. It's not easy to control all these manually. You can get rid of chlorine in water by keeping it for 48 hours before adding to tank but not other things. That's where Seachem Discus Buffer (Here) comes to play. This can replicate the ideal Discus environment by lowering pH & lowering General Hardness. Also it softens water by precipitating calcium and magnesium. This can help you to keep your Discus fish safe. You don't want to change water and night and then in morning look at Discus graveyard feeling like a mass murderer.

But remember Discus Buffer is for lowering pH and GH but if you want to get rid of chlorine, chloramine, or ammonia then you need to use Seachem Neutral Regulator (Here) along with it. The Neutral Regulator conditions the water, rids it of chloramine & ammonia and also helps Discus Buffer to keep to pH value at 7 or low.

Raising Discus 01 : Water changes

If you have a bunch of Small Discus but they don't grow fast this might be the reason. When I has started keeping discus I always wondered why one earth my little Discus don't grow. This must be the reason.

If you want your Discus fish to grow fast then you have to do daily water changes ! Something between 50%-40% ! Otherwise they won't grow to their natural size. Also They might not look heathly too.

Discus Fish Aquarium Water Changes

I do 40%-50% water change in my Discus Juveniles tank everyday. I was told by many experienced discus breeders that Discus grow faster and bigger with daily water changes. I believe this is true because my discus are bigger than their siblings at petshop.

But you have to be careful about these water changes because Discus fish are highly sensitive to waster condition and would die if anything goes wrong. Also be careful about using Anti chlorine. Better not using it directly in yr fish tank. always better if you can have a separate tank or barrel to keep water 24 hours before put it in your tank.