Discus fish: Can you keep angelfish with discus?

Can you keep discus with angelfish?
What are the key challenges of keeping angels with discus and how to overcome them?

[@skipsnapdoesfish8457]

One thing that got me success was putting my most peaceful of my 2 angelfish. To bring extra precautions, I even put the discus in my new 75 gallon before the angels so the discus can be better established in the aquarium

[@chit-yuenleong4020]

Great advice. May i know how often do you deworm your discus and what medication to use?

[@Alex_Correa]

I bought some of the discus' flakes and granules and indeed my Altums won't touch them. What people normally say to me is that I would loose all my Altums if I decide to add discus to the tank because the bacteria that would be introduced with the discus would kill the Altums. They seem to mean what they say. Do you have any experiences of problems in regards to bacterial incompatibility when adding them together? How would that work? What would be the symptoms?

[@MELODYMUNRO]

I have 1 angelfish in with my discus, I had to put him in there because he was being bashed up by my other angelfish. Has not been a problem, the discus ignore him and he actually hangs out with my smallest discus. I often see them swimming slowly together peacefully.

[@tropicalfishhub]

Angels and discus often school together in the wild, so they should coexist in aquarium as well

[@willie346]

@@tropicalfishhub Show me one video in the wild where angels and discus school together. I've never seen this.

[@tropicalfishhub]

@@willie346 Bleher mentoned it many times, including in his books. There are plenty of photos of them caught in the same net. Discus school with Heros and there are videos of that, so there is no reason why they can't mix with Pterophyllum

[@Constantine_Cvl8]

​@@willie346they also breed in areas where Heros species (severums) are present and breeding aswell during the rainy season. I'm gonna grab a link for Below Water's video on it

[@extraaccount5830]

Did you go to Oxford?

[@Wilfred5555]

Thanks for the video. Which deworming do you suggest

[@tropicalfishhub]

I use Levamisole, which always does the job. Flubendazole-based dewormers might be good as prophylactic, but they rarely kills actual worms

[@Wilfred5555]

@@tropicalfishhub Thank you!