#Discus fish tank for free

My guide has already been posted on some forums, notably and the U.K. So I decided to write a reasonably comprehensive guide myself, to give any discus newcomer the necessary tools to launch him or herself into discus-keeping, in the safest, most successful manner possible. I belong to 5 other aquarist forums, and found over the past year or so, going through many Stickies, threads & posts, that there didn't seem to be any one single place where someone interested in discus could get a reasonably inclusive step-by-step outline as to what needed to be done to properly get started with discus. That was mostly in the late 1950's and 60's when LFS's would only give me.

At one time, I had about 15 tanks, and bred many varieties of egglayers, Tetras, Barbs, Danios, Angels, Bettas, Gouramis, and others. I'm retired, living in Vancouver, B.C., and have been fish-keeping on and off, both fresh and saltwater, for over 50 years, since I was a kid. Greetings to all you discus fans out there, It is included here in full as well as a PDF attachment (

#Discus fish tank for free

Admin Note: DiscusPaul has very kindly offered this in-depth article for free for our members.