I agree I've only kept discus a year now. But not chasing the pH is the best thing you can do. You only have to worry about the pH when you're breeding. Just keep a regular water change schedule based on the number of fish you have. Thanks! Glad to see more people discussing discus.
Excellent video! There is so much snobbery in the discus keeping community it's great to see common sense videos like yours explaining things to new discus hobbyists out there
At last with the Discuss!Will enjoy new content ✨️ with you on Discuss. Not yet started one. Always waiting for the right moment. Now the time has come and will learn so much now on how to maintain them from you videos. Looking forward 👌 to seeing more on this topic. Your channel is inspiring. Keep it up!
Dope, perhaps the clearest water on any channel I’ve watched. Beautiful fish, both tanks are fire🔥Don’t have either species of fish but this channel is hella knowledgeable and fun.
Yo. Kevin, I've been waiting for you to do the big tank with discus. Man, I'm excited. Can't wait to see the new videos. You make this look so easy. Keep up the good work bro.
Have you tried a hang on back planter with a pathos plant in it? If you give it enough light it is known to suck up nitrates like crazy. And it doesn’t look to bad as a house plant. Do to the plant being out of the water it tends to grow faster than aquarium plants, which in turn suck up more nitrates.
@@KaveManAquatics If I was a Discus I'd take my chances in your tank over my own. I've been so leary to even try them, just like the electric blue Jack Dempsey, beautiful fish but they require the level of care that doesn't allow laziness or mistakes. So I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy yours. Thanks as always for sharing
They’re so beautiful. Wish to have some one day, but I’m only 5 months into the hobby, so I’ll stick with the fish I have for now. That white spot on my Mollie is gone. Thanks so much for the advice in the members only. 😊
Great video. I have learned from keeping reef tanks and corals that parameters are important but stability is more important. You may want to look into auto water making small daily water changes to keep your system stable with that large bio load. Also, plants are hard to grow in 85 degrees temp. 82 degrees will provide you more success with that. Discus diets are another thing that should be accounted for. Give them variety.
I’m ashamed at how my mind went to the wrong place when he said “A smaller hose is easier to pull out and wrap up.” Lol!!!! I know I can’t be the only one. My husband says my mind always stays in the gutter. After this, I realize he might be right. Lol!!!! Im so childish. In all seriousness, thank you for your videos. I’m a beginner and I’ve learned so much. 💛💛💛💛
Have my discus at 83.5 give or take with my angels 40% water change every other day. They are best buddies angels are more aggressive at feeding but I got a feeding cone and clean!!! Water good luck kevin
KEV HELP AGAIN, I had an ammonia spike in my tank, did a water change and added prime and stability daily for 1 week, the issue is my ammonia didnt move at all. I did a 70 percent water change and am at abt 1 or
Any problems with your severums pairing up and becoming aggressive? I only keep one because of that but would like to get a couple more. I have a 75 gallon.
Not really, I have 3 of them and they tend to chase each other…or it could just be 1 chasing the other 2 and I can’t tell cause they’re all identical lol But good thing is they are not aggressive with anyone else in the tank 😁
@@KaveManAquatics ok thanks, I found them. One of my tanks is just a small 10 gallon tank that I need to stay at a stable 84 degrees and I’ve bought 2 eheim jager’s and they just aren’t getting it to the correct temp and I’ve tried both a 50 watt and a 75 watt and I can’t get the temp higher then 75 for some reason
Hi, just wanted to ask are you still going to keep the discus with the silver arawana? I have a thousand liter tank that's about 2200cm long. I have about 15 discus in it a few years. I really want to try a silver arawana in it.
Also what do you feed your arawana? Do you feed something that floats so he stays up top feeding while the discus feed on the floor? Sorry for the questions, never had any arawana before, I think I am going to pick up a young one during the week about 10cm long.
When you put your fish into quarantine, do you use any medications to treat for diseases or infections? Or do you only treat for that stuff if you see anything start to appear while they’re in the quarantine tank for a couple weeks.
Kev, great videos very informative, thanks for making them. My question is what is the ratio male to female, in your peacock tank. I’m getting ready to make a all peacock tank and wasn’t sure if I should go with a all male tank or mix a 2-8 male/female it’s a 90 gallon aquarium. Thanks for any help
Can you mix different brands of beneficial bacteria.? When I first cycled my tank and for the past 3 months I’ve used Quick Start by API. Can I switch over to Seachem without any issues ?
So the fish stay healthy by adding prime and stability which adds bacteria into the water and when we change the water, is why we need to add more back in? Im just clearing this up in my head thinking...how does the "upped" bacteria stay in the tank after we stop using stability? It's not like we need to add something else in the tank for more bacteria to grow on to help with ammonia right?
Stability helps boost their production. Once they are “produced” and established they stay in the tank (unless you kill them off) they also don’t live in the water. That’s why you can water change and it won’t effect them…(again, unless you kill them off)
I'm lucky here in Melbourne Australia we have zero nitrates from the tap my Discus have less than five parts of nitrate at every water change I keep Malasian imports and the farms there do multiple water changes a week every day so I like to replicate that go online and check out these stunning Malasian discus
The nitrates issue is super divisive.many claim they keep their German "stendker" discus in upto 50ppm nitrates with no issue. Mine are imported fish from Singapore so I utilise RODI water to match their original water as they seemed intolerant of my high nitrate tap water.feeding beefheart also increases nitrate levels of course.its a tricky balance
@@KaveManAquatics there's lots of denitrate "resins" used here in UK & I'm not convinced.i use frogbit & Egeria in my sump the same as I would chaeto in a marine tank & it seems to keep it down.
So I bought a use 75 gallon a year ago for my wife's angelfish and when I arrive at the house with the tank there was a 6 inch discus and two big angelfish I tested there nitrates and it was over 160 ppm that discus was living in 160ppm for over a year so they can do well in it but not advisable
@@KaveManAquatics Thanks. How will I know when to stop Prime and Stability. Or cycle bio load has grown enough to handle the additional discus. Thanks Again. So glad you are into Discus.
And another thing you could probably get a security camera. And have it on your fish tank and have it record 24/7. Can you can have that content as well. From when you're not around . You can see what's going on if something happens
yo! who's that Marine in the picture behind u on the wall above the tank? and thanks for the great advice?....dang man..,did u go to a "fish" college to obtain such helpful knowledge? 😁
My MAN i HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY discus are so timid and difficult to keep when they are small I kept the heat up in my tank and a water change wiped them out even with Prime and safe as well as stability might be where I stay in DC- How do you keep your tanks that Beautiful and clear???
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I agree I've only kept discus a year now. But not chasing the pH is the best thing you can do. You only have to worry about the pH when you're breeding. Just keep a regular water change schedule based on the number of fish you have. Thanks! Glad to see more people discussing discus.
My pleasure, looking forward to joining and sharing more of the discus world. 😊
Love the Fish Hut!!! shop there all the time!!
The quality in your videos and the way you make them has evolved so much and it looks amazing! Discus are looks amazing Kev!
Thank you Sir! Glad you like them! 😊
Excellent video!
There is so much snobbery in the discus keeping community it's great to see common sense videos like yours explaining things to new discus hobbyists out there
Thank you for that feedback. I promise to be the least snobbyest 🤣🤣
Excellent work Mr K.
At last with the Discuss!Will enjoy new content ✨️ with you on Discuss. Not yet started one. Always waiting for the right moment. Now the time has come and will learn so much now on how to maintain them from you videos. Looking forward 👌 to seeing more on this topic.
Your channel is inspiring. Keep it up!
Thank you bro! Happy to help with the Discus world as well 😁
Man, you make this look so easy. I’m trying to get there. I hate to see your water bill. 😀. Thanks for all your content.
You’ll get there bro! 😁💪
When homeboy said he’s older brother stat. On god. Keep running that shit bros
Dope, perhaps the clearest water on any channel I’ve watched. Beautiful fish, both tanks are fire🔥Don’t have either species of fish but this channel is hella knowledgeable and fun.
Thank you bro! Glad you’re enjoying the channel! 😊💪
Beautiful tank man! Thank you for sharing it!
Yo. Kevin, I've been waiting for you to do the big tank with discus. Man, I'm excited. Can't wait to see the new videos. You make this look so easy. Keep up the good work bro.
Thank you bro, I hope you enjoy it! 😁
Looks awesome! The background makes it looks like a real discus habitat!
Thank you bro 😊💪
Have you tried a hang on back planter with a pathos plant in it? If you give it enough light it is known to suck up nitrates like crazy. And it doesn’t look to bad as a house plant. Do to the plant being out of the water it tends to grow faster than aquarium plants, which in turn suck up more nitrates.
Very interesting- I tried putting some plants in my discus tank but my severum ate it…🤦♀️… Thanks for the idea…😍
Yea, check the video I uploaded right before this one 😁
@@KaveManAquatics lol just saw it.
I was there yesterday ! Great spot to buy fish
Finally the discus video!!!
😁😁
There's no better day than water change day
Damn that’s my favorite place lol there’s one in Clifton called absolutely fish. Also, amazing place 👍🏻
My new favorite too 😁💪
Great content Kev, those Discus look amazing.
Thank you brother Darth! I’m holding to keep them a long time and watch them grow 😁
@@KaveManAquatics If I was a Discus I'd take my chances in your tank over my own. I've been so leary to even try them, just like the electric blue Jack Dempsey, beautiful fish but they require the level of care that doesn't allow laziness or mistakes. So I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy yours. Thanks as always for sharing
Cool. I was just there the other day. Picked up some more copperhead rosy barbs for my pond.
They are amazing 🤩
😁😁
Need a tour video of your collections🤩
They’re so beautiful. Wish to have some one day, but I’m only 5 months into the hobby, so I’ll stick with the fish I have for now. That white spot on my Mollie is gone. Thanks so much for the advice in the members only. 😊
Awesome!!! Glad your guy is doing better 😁😁💪💪
Maybe get some floating plants. They'll help with your nitrates.
Thanks for the tips for discus because im gonna buy discus for my new tank. I like your content btw keep it up!
My pleasure bro, glad I could help out 😁
Thanks😁
Great video. I have learned from keeping reef tanks and corals that parameters are important but stability is more important. You may want to look into auto water making small daily water changes to keep your system stable with that large bio load. Also, plants are hard to grow in 85 degrees temp. 82 degrees will provide you more success with that. Discus diets are another thing that should be accounted for. Give them variety.
How many fiter systems are ok, how much filtration and media is recomended for discus fishkeeping?
Looking good
Beautiful fishes 🐠🐡🐟🐡🐠
Thank you! 😁
What are you feeding, pellets or?? I guess that bh mix is a no go with severums and Arowana in the tank??
agreed about aros. predatory does not equal mean [ a common myth ]. only exception is jardini arowanas. those guys are beasts
I’m ashamed at how my mind went to the wrong place when he said “A smaller hose is easier to pull out and wrap up.” Lol!!!! I know I can’t be the only one. My husband says my mind always stays in the gutter. After this, I realize he might be right. Lol!!!! Im so childish. In all seriousness, thank you for your videos. I’m a beginner and I’ve learned so much. 💛💛💛💛
Nope your not the only one... I was right there with you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Get off on some fish fathers huh aha
🤣🤣 I didnt hear it until just now LOL
@@KaveManAquatics im sorry to corrupt such a wholesome video. 🫣🫣🫣🫣
@@BirdLadySpeaks 🤣🤣🤣
Great video!
Thank you! 😊
Hey Kave Man thanks for all the content, are you thinking about breeding them? And when will you be coming out with more about discuss ?? Thx!!!
Hopefully soon, I jumped into 2 new projects right after the Discus so I've got a lot of catching up to do 😊 Not planning to breed though.
Your green 800 gph pump looks jus like mines missing that lil back piece from all the times I dropped it.. lolololol great video bro keep going!!! 👍🏾
Yup, that’s how mine got missing too 🤣
Love your content Kave❤️
Have my discus at 83.5 give or take with my angels 40% water change every other day. They are best buddies angels are more aggressive at feeding but I got a feeding cone and clean!!! Water good luck kevin
How has Seachem matrix been doing? You got an update
awesome tank
Test your tap water for nitrates kev. Mine was just as high as my tank water
Yup, I did, mine is already around 20PPM so it’s going to be challenging keeping it low for them.
Hi Kaveman
What do you use to refill your tank? Looks like a cool waterfall affect
Check out the video here - ua-cam.com/video/5T4t_PdXCQw/v-deo.html
Nice work 💪
KEV HELP AGAIN, I had an ammonia spike in my tank, did a water change and added prime and stability daily for 1 week, the issue is my ammonia didnt move at all. I did a 70 percent water change and am at abt 1 or
thanks!!!!!!
How many bags of sand do you have in your tanks
Hey caveman why not get some floating plants they will reduce your nitrates well!
Any problems with your severums pairing up and becoming aggressive? I only keep one because of that but would like to get a couple more. I have a 75 gallon.
Not really, I have 3 of them and they tend to chase each other…or it could just be 1 chasing the other 2 and I can’t tell cause they’re all identical lol But good thing is they are not aggressive with anyone else in the tank 😁
@@KaveManAquatics ok, thanks.
Hey man is that pool filter sand as your substrate
Yes Sir!! Find it in my shop 😊 koji.to/kaveman_aquatics
What kind of heater are you using to keep your temp that high? I’m having trouble finding a good heater.
I use 2 redundant heaters, 300W each. You can find what I use in my shop - koji.to/kaveman_aquatics
@@KaveManAquatics ok thanks, I found them. One of my tanks is just a small 10 gallon tank that I need to stay at a stable 84 degrees and I’ve bought 2 eheim jager’s and they just aren’t getting it to the correct temp and I’ve tried both a 50 watt and a 75 watt and I can’t get the temp higher then 75 for some reason
What breed of arowana is flacco, thanks
Hes a silver arowana
Hi, just wanted to ask are you still going to keep the discus with the silver arawana? I have a thousand liter tank that's about 2200cm long. I have about 15 discus in it a few years. I really want to try a silver arawana in it.
Also what do you feed your arawana? Do you feed something that floats so he stays up top feeding while the discus feed on the floor? Sorry for the questions, never had any arawana before, I think I am going to pick up a young one during the week about 10cm long.
Hi, I'm new to fish and was wondering: How you acclimate new fish and shrimp in a new tank?
I want a discus tank so bad... patience is 🔑. One day
Yup, one day you’ll get there! Took me, felt like forever lol
When you put your fish into quarantine, do you use any medications to treat for diseases or infections? Or do you only treat for that stuff if you see anything start to appear while they’re in the quarantine tank for a couple weeks.
I do. I call it the Quarantine Couple (QC) Seachem Metroplex and Paraguard. This video will be helpful - ua-cam.com/video/nQJqxfjF1J0/v-deo.html
Awesome! Thank you!
May I ask Why only 30mL of stability? That’s only about 60gallon, right?
Following up?i would like to know the answer
Kev, great videos very informative, thanks for making them.
My question is what is the ratio male to female, in your peacock tank. I’m getting ready to make a all peacock tank and wasn’t sure if I should go with a all male tank or mix a 2-8 male/female it’s a 90 gallon aquarium. Thanks for any help
Hey Kev, will 2 fluval 407 be good for a 125 gal tank?
Can you mix different brands of beneficial bacteria.? When I first cycled my tank and for the past 3 months I’ve used Quick Start by API. Can I switch over to Seachem without any issues ?
How many times a day do you feed the discus?
Twice a day 😊
Shout out to your barber ayeeeeeeee
🤣🤣💪💪
What,, he clean like that big aquatic brothe 🔪
So the fish stay healthy by adding prime and stability which adds bacteria into the water and when we change the water, is why we need to add more back in? Im just clearing this up in my head thinking...how does the "upped" bacteria stay in the tank after we stop using stability? It's not like we need to add something else in the tank for more bacteria to grow on to help with ammonia right?
Stability helps boost their production. Once they are “produced” and established they stay in the tank (unless you kill them off) they also don’t live in the water. That’s why you can water change and it won’t effect them…(again, unless you kill them off)
Your substrate looks really white.
What brand & does it affect PH
Thanks
It’s regular pool sand!! 😁 Has no affect on PH. You can find it in my shop - koji.to/kaveman_aquatics
I'm lucky here in Melbourne Australia we have zero nitrates from the tap my Discus have less than five parts of nitrate at every water change I keep Malasian imports and the farms there do multiple water changes a week every day so I like to replicate that go online and check out these stunning Malasian discus
Sounds like some Thriving Discus you guys got there! 😁💪
hopefully the new discus leave flaco dos alone 🤣🤣😁😁
I know right🤣🤣🤣
Hey kev what's good temp to keep for mbunas to make their colors pop
78-82 for African cichlids.
@@KaveManAquatics Thanks kev
#re-play crew, 12/10/23, 😊 is that flacko as a baby, lol
🤣 Yes Sirrrr
The nitrates issue is super divisive.many claim they keep their German "stendker" discus in upto 50ppm nitrates with no issue.
Mine are imported fish from Singapore so I utilise RODI water to match their original water as they seemed intolerant of my high nitrate tap water.feeding beefheart also increases nitrate levels of course.its a tricky balance
Definitely is…so far my plants are beginning to help and last week tank remained under 40PPM 😁
@@KaveManAquatics there's lots of denitrate "resins" used here in UK & I'm not convinced.i use frogbit & Egeria in my sump the same as I would chaeto in a marine tank & it seems to keep it down.
So I bought a use 75 gallon a year ago for my wife's angelfish and when I arrive at the house with the tank there was a 6 inch discus and two big angelfish I tested there nitrates and it was over 160 ppm that discus was living in 160ppm for over a year so they can do well in it but not advisable
Wow, good to know. Amazed he grew that big in nitrates that high.
I swear kave really pushing his luck 🍀 with wifey 😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Stability and Prime safe for 15 new 5. Inch Discus added to a fish in cycled ( used Tetras) 180 gallon. Too expensive to guess here. Thanks
Absolutely! Keep an eye on your ammonia levels though. 1 dose of Prime will detoxify 1ppm of ammonia. 2 for 2, and so on...
@@KaveManAquatics Thanks. How will I know when to stop Prime and Stability.
Or cycle bio load has grown enough to handle the additional discus. Thanks Again. So glad you are into Discus.
Kept discus for many years did 75% water every other day people do every day water change very sensitive harder to keep than a reef tank for me
Wow, that’s a lot.
How's flaco doing?
The healing process has begun 😁
Good stuff man good stuff
And another thing you could probably get a security camera. And have it on your fish tank and have it record 24/7. Can you can have that content as well. From when you're not around . You can see what's going on if something happens
Omg give me that dragon homes! Is that a center piece or you just fucking around?
yo! who's that Marine in the picture behind u on the wall above the tank? and thanks for the great advice?....dang man..,did u go to a "fish" college to obtain such helpful knowledge? 😁
Thats me bro, like 25 years ago 😊💪
@@KaveManAquatics word! 😎
A smaller hose is easier to pull out shouldn’t of made me laugh but it did lol.
Kev Discus fish are terrible they die from anything just curious if your discus are still alive
Very much so! Growing and thriving.
@@KaveManAquatics Interesting didn't see em when you made the big move LoL
Well Sh** there goes the rest of my bank account...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤗🤗🤗🤗
Lol you and me both bro 🤣🤣
Hello
Can i contact you personally please?
Sure…KaveManAquatics.com/kaveman-coaching
🤘🤙🤘💯💯
👀👍
My MAN i HAVE NO IDEA HOW YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY discus are so timid and difficult to keep when they are small I kept the heat up in my tank and a water change wiped them out even with Prime and safe as well as stability might be where I stay in DC- How do you keep your tanks that Beautiful and clear???
Thank you bro! Sorry to hear about your Discus, could have been something in your source water.
My book on getting crystal-clear water can definitely help! 😁 It's short, to the point, and covers all the causes and solutions for cloudy water. Comes in eBook and Paperback. I promise you won't be disappointed! Check it out here - bit.ly/clearH2O
@@KaveManAquatics Thank you Bro I will order that book