Discus Since 1987

Today I will talk about the usual mistakes for those who start having Wild Discus in their homes. We must understand that Wild Discus are slightly different behavioral fish compared to Donesticos (Hybrids). I often say that Wild Discus is the last step of who has kept Discus Hybridos so if you are more of a fan of Wild Discus read this short article. Stress is probably one of the biggest enemies of the Wild Discus. If the Discus in general suffer from so-called stress it can be avoided. Water The Wild Discus essentially like "old waters" !!!!  What, after all, are "old waters". Water well cycled, water that is already in the aquarium for at least 3 to 4 months. Water with a large colony of nitrifying Bacteria !! The power of these bacteria is to transform ammonia into nitrites through nitrosomones and nitrite into nitrate through nitrobacteria. Known as the nitrogen cliclo. Why are they called nitrifiers? The nitrification happens with the oxidat...

What is the best food for the Wild Discus ?  It is always a complex and pertinent topic to talk about the best food for the Wild Discus. We are going to talk about the 8 year experience of feeding Wild Discus in our company.       Since 1987 I have had several experiences with food for Discus. Of the " mixed food with beef heart, etc." I have done for over 25 years mixing foods, fruits, vitamins to have a balanced diet. It was wrong, it was not the best food I could give the Discus . But that will speak later on the mixtures with beef heart. Artificial but balanced food As I said before in your environment the Wild Discus feed mainly on algae, fruits, seeds etc, ie a high content of plant components. In our aquariums If we can offer algae like spirulina, chlorella containing unsaturated fatty acids, ascophyllum nodosum and laminaria digitata will be ideal. Remembering that achlorella is rich in essential amino acids, such as vitamins a...

Many do not understand the difficulty of getting the amount of Wild Discus allowed by Brazilian Law during such a short space of time . That it takes the Amazon Rivers to descend and to rise. As we have already mentioned, we have a quota of 4000 Wild Fish by Brazilian law. The Amazon Rivers usually begin to descend in May, June and only in September it is possible to collect Wild Discus. In the past, water in the Rivers had only begun to rise in January . Of course, all this depends on Mother Nature. If we do not see, for example the Season of 2018/2019. The Rivers  started to go down in May, very slowly, but until October they did not go down enough to hold any collection. At the end of October we started to finally select the first Wild Discus. The water has dropped in an extraordinarily fast way and by the end of November it has begun to rise.  In fact we had about 45 days to collect and select 4000 wild discus in different communities. All very far fr...

We have no doubt that in the last 10 years both Santarem Discus and other good exporters in Brazil , have been changing the Wild Discus market. In these years there has been a competition among exporters ,  to put on the World market the best Wild Discus that nature produces.  Until then the Wild Discus that were in the World market had little quality, few or none knew what a quarantine was ,  and no one selected them in the middle of the Amazon Jungle with the company Santarem Discus does it. The companies still worked with Plastic Receipts where the Wild Discus lay for weeks without any filtration. The Wild Discus came in very poor condition to importers.  The market has changed in terms of quality and today comes Wonderful Wild Discus for sale and that has given rise to new colors and patterns. Just see the amount of Wild discus that are in the market with the strong bar in the middle. More and more and more appreciated by hobbyists.  ...

All or almost all the collection seasons in the Amazon between late September and December we find some Wild Rare Discus. Wild Discus only ones who are coming back to the same communities can not see another !  As you can imagine the joy is great when a Wild Discu is found. I compare the moment like the Christmas Eve. When a child opens the toy he wanted so badly. The first one I highlight is really a weird Wild Discus. Stress bars never disappeared in a black tone as well as around a beautiful black outline , with a blue . Just absolute amazing and of course ...rare .  It was a Wild Discus always very shy and away from the others. We finished selling to Hong Kong to Wayne Ng  and second we went to China. Hopefully you have reproduced ... Over the weeks in quarantine began to become red. Unfortunately as soon as it reached the 3 months of quarantine it was exported We came back several times to the community that I kept secret, but we never cap...

Nhamunda Land of Heckel  They are among the most beautiful Wild Discus of Amazonia. Its electric blue that can be seen with a good light in an Aquarium is sometimes "dazzling". Wild Discus are more difficult to maintain because of their usual stress.  Living at the crossroads of the branches at the top Nhamunda about 4 hours Nhamunda city boat is the most beautiful places and still wild in the Amazon. Bathed by the Nhamunda River of clear waters with Ph's of 5.8 to 6.0 and with 10 to 15 microsiemans. The first time I went to Nhamunda was in 2007 where I had the pleasure of meeting one of the oldest Amazon Wild Discus visitors, Manoel Torres.An extraordinary man with whom I had a good time. Huge stories about Nhamunda, about locations where he collected Wild Discus. A true lover of the Amazon and its fauna. I worked with him until his death a few years later. Years later I started working with his son Manoel Torres. Manoelzinho as he is know...