Basic Information

You can find some basic and maybe helpful information about discus fish in general and some recommendations from us on the following pages.

Did you know that we use normal tap water for our discus fish? You can find further information on our page "water parameters.

Why discus fish from Stendker?

Stendker against Wild Catch Discus:

Wild discus often have problems with tapeworms and hexamita, so that the fish hardly eat and do not grow. Wild discus suffer under lots of parasites that leads to a bad presentation of the fishes in the aquariums

Our discus fish are well-known for being free of tapeworms and only a disseminated affection with hexamita, gill worms and trichodina. The immune system of our fish is so healthy and strong that illnesses hardly plays a part, as long the fish are kept separate, no drop of water from another tank gets in contact, the temperature is about

30°C and the animals are fed with a nourishing food they like (our food is based on beef heart with healthy additives).

Stendker against Discus Imports:

Discus fish from Asia are well-known for the discus epidemic (virus infection): more than 90% of the animals from Asia are infected with. Stress of transport, different water conditions, changing climate leads to disease outbreak despite of antibiotics.

This means that the fish are in poor health or even dying in full view of your customers.

Our fish will not lead to such problems!