Discuss fish

Fishes are enough large (12—15 sm), disc-like in type and uploshennie from sides. On motherland in the pool of rivers Amazonki and Rio-Hegro dwell in the slowly current waters. A few colour forms of diskusov are known: brown, green, blue and red. Males from females differ by the form of pectoral plavnikov bent lunate and directed by ends backwards, while at females they are dropped downward and by ends ahead. Besides the females are painted paler than males.
On its motherland of diskusi live in the area of rain forests, in reservoirs with the soft, hardly acidified water systematic refreshed by the rain threads. And in aquariums the same terms are necessary to them. Diskusi peaceful fishes, however for breeding of them it is needed to hold separately, giving them large capacity aquarium (from 200 litres and more), copsy kriptokorinami or by the plants similar to them. These fishes need a various living forage. Temperature of maintenance and spawning about 30 °S. Vodu it is necessary to update weekly, replacing approximately quarter its part. Aeratsiya of water with simultaneous its filtration is desirable.
At the observance of these terms and success in the selection of pair the aquarium will be rewarded by the receipt of posterity of these so far rare and expensive fishes, and main — by possibility to admire by its nurse-children, marriage paints painted gay in colours, and
to look after the quite unusual anxiety about posterity, peculiar only diskusam.
Put a caviar of diskusi aside like majority of tsihlidovih on plants or on the ceramic surface of flowerpot. The parents, especially male, vigilantly guard a caviar, on development of which about three days leave. About larvae with the geltochnim bubble not still pulled in the parents take care, sorting out and carrying them about. Then the fries hang on the sides of both parents, feeding on the original «fish milk» — by mucus, selected their skin. It makes about two weeks basis of feed of little people, but also later the already freely floating fries are fed up by the such unusual method.