Finally got confirmation that my water temperature is in fact 84F. I'd like to bump it up another degree or two... but my heaters are at full capacity.
In the quest for a thermometer (apparently PetSmart is always out of stock with the regular ones, but fully stocked on the sticker ones), I found some frozen beef-heart that I thought I'd feed my discus, since the guy I got them from fed them beef-heart, and from what I've been told by countless discus keepers, it promotes growth... I fed it alongside some frozen brine shrimp... The brine shrimp was hunted down in seconds. The beef-heart, not so much. The only ones that ate some of it were the rams, and a few of the discus. Considering how I have 60 cubes of it... they're getting beef-heart twice a day alongside either brine shrimp or bloodworms.
The frozen foods have definitely brought out better colors in my rams, angels and the discus... it however, has turned the rams and angels very aggressive... they killed one of my angels.
At least it wasn't the koi, he's gorgeous!
In other news... someone else in town was selling some discus b/c they were getting wild-caught discus... They were actually the ones I was originally going to buy. They're much older and bigger. Since I was the only one who showed interest in them, he practically gave them to me (in terms of discus "money")... so on top of the 10 pigeon snake juvies, I have 2 more blue colbalts, and 2 blood pigeons(?). I'll have to take pictures. Since I have so many of them... I'm going to get rid of all the neons asap, and possibly the younger of the bolivian rams, leaving me with the discus, two bolivians and two german rams, two angels, and the bn plecos. As the bn plecos mature (and I find it easier to catch them), I'll move two of them into my 29g. I'll probably sell a few of the pigeon snake juvies once they're bigger as well to bring my count down to either 8 or 10.
Anywho, time for water change. It seems I may be doing one each day now.
