Heckel discus

**raymond** · 23rd Nov 2008, 15:31

Hi all, understand that recently there was an influx of wild discus into singapore. Alot of people has been getting this wild discus from local LFS. I personally got a few pieces of heckel.

Would like to find out how long does it take to conditioned this beautiful fishes before their stable in our tanks.

Any one can show pictures of their recent purchases??

**quix** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:03

I think mine settled down pretty well in the 1st week. Initial few days the first 6 of them were quite skittish but were eating right from day 1. After I got 4 more to make it a crowd of 10 a few days later, they became very outgoing and swim freely.

**illumnae** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:19

mine were eating from day 1 too, but not as easily acclimitized as quix. Mine took about 1-2 weeks to fully settle in, and like quix, I found that once I added to their numbers, they relaxed alot more and began to swim freely. After a few days of that, they recognized me as the "bloodworm guy" and came to greet me at the front of the tank everytime i went near.

**raymond** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:26

haha, same here, my started to feed after 2 days. now swimming freely in the tank. I got 2 pieces in my tank now. Waiting for the blue face heckel to arrive on our shore.

**illumnae** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:37

Haha all the best raymond

I've been waiting for blue faced heckels to arrive since a few months back...FH said they ordered and in fact a few days before their last shipment came told me most likely that shipment would have blue faced heckels in it...unfortunately i was disappointed

In the end got impatient and bought my full quota of normal heckels instead. Hope i don't regret it! I'll have to wait for next year's season for my new tank to be set up and hope that blue faced heckels come in then

**raymond** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:39

oh... whats the size of your current tank ?? How many heckel do you have inside now?

**illumnae** · 23rd Nov 2008, 23:46

currently QTed in a 2ft, 7 pieces. Eventual home is a 4x2x2

**raymond** · 25th Nov 2008, 21:52

Any more people bought the recent batch of Heckel ??

**lyc** · 26th Nov 2008, 00:00

i just got 2 pcs from c328 on monday. The batch is quite good.

**raymond** · 26th Nov 2008, 00:04

oh thats great, do keep us updated. i was thinking of setting up a wild discus community.

**quix** · 26th Nov 2008, 09:00

Originally Posted by raymond

oh thats great, do keep us updated. i was thinking of setting up a wild discus community.

In terms of setting up a community comprising of different species of wild discus, think Heiko always discourage us against mixing species. He feels that heckels should stay with heckels, greens with greens and blue/brown is ok to stay together. I suppose this is due to the difference in their natural water composition (heckels in lowest PH, followed by greens and then blue/brown) and also character. But have also seen others who have mixed species successfully. So I guess nothing is absolute.

**rayade76** · 26th Nov 2008, 10:24

hi bro,

anyone know, how many type of wild have in local market ?

please advise , thank you

**illumnae** · 26th Nov 2008, 11:03

I've seen all 3 species of wild discus arrive in our LFS in the past few weeks. Currently most abundant are heckels, followed by greens...i believe blue/brown are sold out and currently awaiting further shipments

**Tangfan** · 26th Nov 2008, 11:11

hi guys

I also bought 5 pcs from FH abot 2 weeks back. Didnt noticed this thread as I have just posted a picture of them at the LFS sighting thread.

In fact, I took the last few small heckels from FH and they got use to my tank conditions very well and were eating within a few hours. All are happily swimming around now but the joke is that they are being bullied by my german ram pair who are robustly protecting their spawning site.

Very nice fish, hope our LFS bring in the blue face heckels soon.

**illumnae** · 26th Nov 2008, 13:30

I actually slightly regret getting FH's...I find C328's more stable and lively! I may be bringing forward my plans to set up a discus/cory biotope tank...maybe still in time to catch this season!

**quix** · 26th Nov 2008, 16:13

Hmm...so much demand. Maybe we should do a MO of wild discus? Pool and get some good specimens? hahah

**illumnae** · 26th Nov 2008, 16:19

blue faced heckel...or even better the blue moon heckels?

**illumnae** · 26th Nov 2008, 20:20

Injecting some poison...my dream fish!

YouTube - Heckel cross , Blue moon, Blue face,Madeira cross

**raymond** · 26th Nov 2008, 23:32

i am actually looking forward to getting a few pieces of blue faced heckel. by the way, bro illumnea, whats a blue moon heckel??

**illumnae** · 26th Nov 2008, 23:39

the ones in the youtube video i linked! not just blue face...whole body powder blue

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