wild Discus breeding in nature - Symphysodon aequifasciata fry - Amazon diving rainy season !

[@ourfolders4779]

I am 70 years old. I kept discus many years ago. This "visit" to their natural habitat is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen. Well done.

[@belowwater]

thank you! I am happy some people notice how special the footage is!

[@gillyg.naughtyg.1339]

As a wild discus keeper this documentary is super educational and beautifully captured. Thanks and keep up the good work !!

[@belowwater]

thank you, glad you like it!

[@tropicalfishhub]

Amazing footage! Thanks a lot for sharing! It is very interesting that discus live in high currents. I noticed that my wilds actually enjoy flow and tend to be more relaxed in tanks with current rather than in static water, where they become more nervous easily.

[@plecocicho]

BBC quality there. And first in situ breeding video of wild discus in the world.

[@Chris.from.1950]

Thank you. This is wonderful work, Oliver, at every level. Fine video, and excellent narrative detail. I am so grateful to see these fish breeding, in their natural habitat, a thing I never expected to see.

[@belowwater]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Constantine_Cvl8]

I always love returning to this video, it goes to show how discus, despite how they look and act, are still cichlids, and cichlids are probably one of the toughest and most dependable family of fish available in the freshwater aquarium hobby! It's videos like these that help dissipate myths that constanly haunt and perperuate in this hobby.

[@belowwater]

Yes, i have pictures of angelfish in both books also, in nature all fish are a little tougher!

[@yorkyone2143]

Excellent video, having kept a Discus in my aquarium for many years its fascinating to see how they live in the wild using leaves to place their eggs on, not the spawning cones by breeders. Mine was a Red Turquoise Discus, captive bred but a real pet very bold, curious & pleased to see me even when I didn't have food for him.

[@belowwater]

Thank you!

[@Mikolji]

So cool! Love the underwater footage. Thanks for sharing all this incredible info,

[@belowwater]

thanks ! better than having tapes sitting in the basement for 20 years!

[@JuanMiguelArtigasAzas]

What a fantastic video! Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience and all the great information included

[@priscillaa.1156]

Wow! What a neat video! ^_^ Thank you for letting us tag a long and see all of this! It's fascinating!

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@4ametist4]

Recently I started keeping discus and I love this kind of content. Seeing how they do in their natural habitat is very intriguing. Very nice and educational documentary!!

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Great video! Thank you for sharing 🙂

[@ridgeback316]

Thank's for this Video!👍😎

[@Apistogramma]

Great Video. Thanks for your sharing.

[@melissaskinner4501]

Wow that was awesome

[@opercula]

Simply unforgetable footage !!! Thank you for your dedicated work !!!

[@belowwater]

Many thanks!

[@Seven7ails]

Thank you

[@allahuakbarquran742]

So nice to see wild stripped discus...in pet shops you see unless white,red,blue diamond discus

[@psystealth]

Fantastic thank you Oliver.

[@greenthumbaquariums1185]

This was great! Thanks for putting it together.

[@zekethefishgeek8690]

Wow thank you so very much sir... seeing the beautiful black yellow, and cream colored fry of the Black Arowana on video, in natural habits is a dream of mine... Any footage of them in the archives, sir?

[@belowwater]

this region has only silver arowana, there is one jumping in the photo shown in the video. I have not seen black arowana in nature, but I have not spent a lot of time in the regions where they would occur.

[@m4l4ch1]

Excellent informations and outstanding pictures. Thank you very much.

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@callenclarke371]

FANTASTIC FOOTAGE! WELL DONE!

[@andrewsager7928]

Great Video. Very informative!! Always like to see fish in their natural habitats doing what comes naturally. 👍

[@anask7668]

Great video!

[@belowwater]

Thanks!

[@Dracobear13]

Thank you for this insight Oliver.

[@johanpersson597]

Thanks :)

[@hapaluku]

Great video from natur. Thanks for sharing :)

[@AJAquatics-iv9mz]

Amazing great work

[@albret00]

fascinating, thanks for sharing !

[@belowwater]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@svenw-u3f]

Nice work!

[@jojyp]

Very informative video!! Thanks for sharing the valuable information!!!

[@belowwater]

thank you.

[@andycarter4581]

Amazing thank you

[@davidnanasi1384]

Excellent very informative....insightful....well done! ♥

[@onlyfinsau]

Great video.I have a few questions. What do these discus eat in the wild and how easy it is for them to find food?

[@belowwater]

that is a very complex question. So for one, it is easy for them to find food, because discus occur often in very large numbers, and their stomachs are always full, even in the dry season. I am certain they eat some aquatic micro-invertebrates, such as worms and the small shrimp you see in the water column. But: stomach analysis done on discus also suggests that there is a lot of proteins from the bacterial mass the fish ingest. In nature, the substrate is a fine clustered mess of bacteria, algae, fungi and fine debris. The stuff that makes rocks slippery when you try to walk in a river. So fish that forage along the bottom either purposefully or inadvertently pick up and digest this mass. There are several scientific publications on it, try searching for them online.

[@onlyfinsau]

@@belowwater Thank you so much

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Very interesting

[@brianbyers5400]

I love wild discus

[@klausoxen6597]

Hey Oliver, thank's for this Upload 👍 Very interesting! Greets from the Center of Germany 😊

[@belowwater]

I will try to make a German version also, when there is some time!

[@lkptec175]

Thanks for your work.

[@belowwater]

My pleasure!

[@BryanGomez-g6o]

Incredible

[@niladrisarkhel7172]

Very educational....thanks ❤

[@SantaMonicaFiltration]

They feel protected in the dark water

[@WinniesDiscus]

Thank you for sharing this video, Oliver. It's a great one!

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@compedious591]

Great video thank you ❤

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

Awesome

[@kjeaquatics]

Always great stuff

[@Everything.On.Wheels519]

It's funny how this video shows natural breeding but it's totally opposite to any advice given for breeding tank setups.

[@belowwater]

There is a lot more water getting exchanged here, that would be difficult to mimic. The 'sterile' way discus are bred in aquariums works well - even if it does not look as nice.

[@HenrikLantzHedstrom]

Amazing content! Thank you! 🤩

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@aaronfiddy4260]

Do a gulper catfish video pls

[@donp11]

amazing

[@belowwater]

thank you!

[@danielw.6428]

Hi, thanks for the nice video. Can you say something about the actual water temperatures while breeding? Thanks :)

[@belowwater]

we measured 31C that day, which is more or less the same as in dry season, less than 200km off the equator temperature is pretty steady!

[@froffygaming]

Hi, can I ask , in the normal season there is alot of water flow? And then to breed they find less water flow? So they normally live in fast moving water, then take advantage in the flood season of slow moving water to breed? So when in a aquarium we are told , slow water always no matter what, but it could be fast flowing unless breeding? And another question, if they can breed at a depth without natural sunlight, one would think that having a light on 24/7 when we breed them in aquarium is not needed?

[@belowwater]

the discus habitats in the Amazon lowland region all have a lot of current,, the discus are at the edge of terra firme, where water drains down. In the dry season you have to hold onto something to see discus, so the current is quite strong. The trigger is not "taking advantage of slow moving water" but more the new available habitat, increase in food and the flood pulse of the rainy season itself. Now, don't forget that most aquarium raised discus are as far removed from wild discus as fancy guppies are from wild guppies. Their behaviour included, so I don't think what we know about wild discus is relevant to the pigeon blood etc that are raised in sterile aquariums for 20+ generations.

[@froffygaming]

@@belowwater that's great info thanks , I'll look more into it as it interests me

[@rolfwelsch8570]

your sounds like Ivan Micolji

[@rohans3447]

What do baby discuss eate after they are by their own.

[@belowwater]

there are some small crustaceans (like Daphnia), insect larvae, and I assume there is nutrition that they gain from a fair amount of detritus and the bacterial mass that they eat in the process of looking for food.

[@Khabib9-z8w]

There are alot of misinformation about discus like discus needs to be in extra clean and clear water,whereas their original natural habitat doesn’t prove so,that’s why i just bought blackwater for my discus really makes them stress free and enhance the color of the discus which i just bought in aquarium,

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Do you mean that you purchased blackwater or went in for the concept of doing a natural tannin infused Brown water naturalistic tank? Had never heard of blackwater for sale but I've seen betta and premixed saltwater for sale at the local petco's and thought why not

[@Khabib9-z8w]

@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape the water is called Black Water for aquarium then it make your water like tanin like their natural habitat

[@aquadise1007]

Can we keep discus and adoketa in the same tank?

[@belowwater]

yes, no problem. In nature they do not occur together, and I.adoketa is from much more acidic water, but in teh aquarium it is no problem.

[@aquadise1007]

@@belowwater Thank you so much that you reply me. Do you think adoketa can still breed in the same tank with discus?

[@belowwater]

@@aquadise1007 Yes, as long as you have enough structure/complexity on the bottom: Some sticks and leaves etc, seed pods, so the breeding adoketa are not getting disturbed by the discus.

[@aquadise1007]

@@belowwater Thank you very much.

[@jojyp]

In your opinion is it really possible to wild discus (F0 Generation) in a breeding tank (100 liters)?

[@belowwater]

you mean breed wild discus in 100 litres ? i think that is a bit small.

[@jojyp]

@@belowwater My actual question is what are the water parameters (TDS, ph, temp, gh, and kh) we need to set for breeding a wild discus pair?

[@belowwater]

@@jojyp I think that can vary, but in nature something like pH 6.2, GH almost 0 and temperature of 30C would be around normal. I think the condition of the fish and soft water are most important, the actual pH may not be that crucial. But a a wild discus breeder would be much better at answering that question.

[@jojyp]

@@belowwater soft water means low tds??? what’s the TDS range that can give better or positive results??

[@belowwater]

@@jojyp yes, as low as possible. I do not measure TDS in the field, but most of these habitats have no measurable hardness.

[@СамаилСедыТХ]

Вода кажется такой мутной,не ожидал что такие не очень мягко говоря условия

[@belowwater]

Google Translated: эти места в низменности Амазонки динамичны, уровень воды колеблется вверх и вниз, а главный рукав Амазонки еще более мутный. я думаю, что это действительно помогает дискам, когда они размножаются, так как хищники также имеют ограниченное зрение

[@portalmasterry6765]

I thought discus needs super clean water and here is a nature vidoe showing them in murky muddy water.

[@belowwater]

cloudy does not mean unclean, there is a huge amount of exchange there, despite all the organic bits floating around. if you were to measure NO2 or NO3 it would be near zero anyhow. Imagine the water coming through your river (if you are north) after the snow melt, it is carrying silt from the mountains, and leaf litter from the previous autumn etc.

[@pacae911]

Minute 10:20 88F ???? that is ridiculous, come on !!! Nothing survives in that temperature

[@belowwater]

in the US people measure temperature in Fahrenheit, 88 degrees Fahrenheit is equivalent to just over 31 degrees Celsius.

[@pacae911]

@@belowwater So with the discs it is impossible to replicate its habitat, the only way I see it would be a glass aquarium with a heater and its filter without anything else, an empty space without life only with the discs and it would be a horrible aquarium 🫠

[@belowwater]

@@pacae911 - you could replicate the bushes they breed in, with a number of upright branches and some leaves at the top. But yes, the habitat of the discus is not spectacular in the sense of having many aquatic plants etc.

[@YannHoiret.Fanatik-discus]

Oliver, you should change the parameters of your KZbin Chanel, i cannot be updated of your new videos because « Below Water channel » is registered on KZbin in « Videos for childrens »

[@belowwater]

You must unsubscribe and resubscribe, then it will be possible! It is a bug in KZbin....if you subscribed early on this is the easiest fix.

[@YannHoiret.Fanatik-discus]

@@belowwater Ohhh yeah.... Now I'm sure not to miss a single one... 😊

[@YannHoiret.Fanatik-discus]

@@belowwater I do not remember to ever seen this kind of images of discus breeding in their natural habitat.... Wow... congrats