Purchasing Your Diskus

Once you have decided on the tank and equipment, you are ready to select your diskus. They are available in wide range of colors and body patterns. Other than wild discus from the Amazon, all domestically bred strains have similar rering requirements, so select your diskus on the basis of your preference for appearance and your budget.

Many fish farmer and importers use creative names for their diskus for marketing reasons. Diskus strains are essentially classified by colors and patterns, but most fish farmer use color enhancing foods, so you should not place too much value on high color intensity on imported diskus. After a couple months, the colors on imported discus will fade a little. You can keep discus with different colors and patterns together, as long as they are all of similar age and size.
If you put discus of different sizes together, the bigger one will likely dominate the the smaller ones, preventing them from getting enough food to grow.