What to feed your Discus | Sera, Tropical, Freeze Dried Blackworms & FAQs

What exactly is the right food for your Discus? It depends! In this video Kelvin explains after long years of trial and error, what OZ Discus has found to be the best food for your particular Discus needs.
Whether you are going away on holiday and need your Discus fish to adapt to dry food, or you are not sure if your Discus has a variety in their diet keeping them at optimum health, Kelvin provides many such tips on what you should purchase.
Most Discus food presented is on the website if not come into our store; or contact us. See the links below.
Shop our Discus food at our online store: ozdiscus.com.au/product-category/fish-food/
Sera Insect Food: ozdiscus.com.au/product/sera-insect-sinking-granule-1000ml-400g/
Sera Growth Food: ozdiscus.com.au/product/sera-immunpro-growth-food-for-discus-granule-440g-1l/
Sera Color Food: ozdiscus.com.au/product/sera-discus-nature-color-granule-105g/
Tropical D-50 Plus: ozdiscus.com.au/product/tropical-fish-food/
Tropical Astacolor: ozdiscus.com.au/product/astacolour-natural-colour-enhancing-food-for-discus-500ml-100g-flakes/
Seafood Mix: ozdiscus.com.au/product/seafoodmix/
Watch how we make our Seafood Mix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3e8oGV6pq6sa6c

[@DBZTCG]

Awesome vid 🤩 thank u for this information

[@OZDiscus]

Our pleasure

[@razibmiah7788]

Thanks a lot, as Allways very very informative & helpful vedio for discus hobbyists.

[@OZDiscus]

Thank you

[@sofluid]

But even raw fish meat carry worms and parasites as well so I don't quite understand the logic here replacing one raw blended protein food with another. I could understand however granular food etc produced in a sterile facility etc being a beneficial way to avoid issues of worms and keeping the water quality much better in a high stocking farm environment. I think the optimal word here would be 'prefer' in terms of beef heart blend or seafood blend for sure. Moderation and a variety of high quality food for diet perhaps goes a longer way in terms of health concerns. Outside of this I think the overall food recommendations are great.

[@OZDiscus]

Nothing beats a good variety of high quality food and I understand and disagree that yes seafood can have worms too. But give it a try. See how you feel about our recommendation surrounding reducing worm symptoms just from simply changing from Beefheart to seafood. In any case, fish eat fish and crustaceans and are much more natural than Beef heart. Perhaps its gentler on their digestive tract, therefore, the fish feels less stress that reduces the manisfestation of worm taking hold. We have tried it for 3 years as well as many of customers and we can all see the benefit and not turning back to Beefheart simply for growth.

[@sofluid]

@@OZDiscusThe wild caught discus diet is a mix of plant matter, fruits, detritus, worms, crustaceans, and insects here and there, and that's the discus I keep. I find that a balanced mix of food types works best for them; the high protein raw protein mixes will grow them quickly yes but they all have the possibility of carrying parasites if the preparation isn't in a thoroughly controlled environment. The beef heart mix I use actually is a mix of the beef heart and fresh salmon and krill, and mixing that into the diet gets them big quickly. I like the ingredients of your seafood mix as well and mixing that in with the diet would again add to that variety; It all points right back to a high quality variety of food really. For me it becomes even more so with Wilds. :)

[@ammurpv2398]

Very nice explanation thank you

[@OZDiscus]

Glad we could assist. Thanks for joining our channel

[@paulbolton1071]

Hi are you only based in Australia I was hoping you may have some stores here in the Uk I’ve just subscribed and finding you videos to be very interesting. Paul 🇬🇧

[@OZDiscus]

Yes im only based in Australia. We are open to discussing fish tips and ideas from any hobbyist so feel free to drop us a line. 👍

[@EuroGupper]

Discus in the wild do not eat cows 😂 I have never bred or kept Discus, but there has to be a better alternative

[@Grcia14]

Literally the first thing I heard when I started fish keeping .This old gentleman said the same thing 😂😂

[@28kartavya]

What kind of dry food (pellet) blend should I give to my yellow red and blue strain discuss in the same tank? I’m currently feeding Tropical D50 and it is fading the yellow one a lot. Shd I do the sera insect, Color and growth pellets together and it won’t bother the reds and yellows? Thank you so much!

[@MrSonnyjack]

You Need to look at the ingriedients. Astaxhantin will Color it red. I have some wild Heckel cross and i try Sera Nature flakes + granulat + insects only and only One a week frozen food.

[@MyVispi]

What do you use to make seafood mix. What are the ingredients of fish that you use ?

[@OZDiscus]

Cant giveaway our recipe as we produce it for commercial but to your Q about the fish we use, i am happy to answer that. Tuna and Swordfish. 👍

[@blueXcss]

instead of the sera insect and growth food. Is Dymax Discus gold better ?

[@kelvinchang7655]

Dymax Discus Gold is different. Can certainly be used as it has excellent prebiotics which helps to soften the poo of fish and prevent bloat. I do recommend it as an addition to any diet.

[@blueXcss]

@@kelvinchang7655 thank you!! :)

[@skini10]

Hello Kelvin - I am based in India and currently have 8 Cuipeua Red wild discus with me. It’s been 3 months now. Half of my fish accept all kinds of pellet food but the remaining half only eat freeze dried Australian black worms. A lot of local experts tells me that it’s not a good idea to feed them black worms and that I should force them to move to pellet food with occasional feeding of black worms. What’s your opinion on feeding the fish daily with black worms. Is it advisable ? Thank you in anticipation !

[@OZDiscus]

For nutrition and protein, freeze dried blackworm has all the essential. However, fish love worms. Hence, if your fish is fed daily with the best tasting food, they will refuse to eat anything less tasty. So trying to get them onto pellets will be futile if they are expecting the best food. So i would definitely only feed the freeze dried worms as a treat and make the pellets more staple daily diet for them. If this is your goal, then they may have to go cold turkey awhile before reintroducing worms on the occasion (not daily)

[@UnscriptedReview]

I am from india and now i am confuse in between shop foods and beef heart or goat heart Can you plz suggest me some good food for daily basic and some for treat weekly I have yellow blue and red colors discus so plz suggest for overall color enhance not only red enhancer

[@OZDiscus]

Why would you be confused with the food we suggest. Most enhancers are red. For non-coloured food, then go with Freeze Dried Blackworms. Look at Sera Insect.

[@razibmiah7788]

Can i feed freeze dried australian blackworm daily to my discus fish?

[@OZDiscus]

You can as a staple diet. Only disadvantage of this is your discus will be very stubborn when you want to change food as they love the taste too much.

[@razibmiah7788]

Can discus fish live in 400 tds well water?

[@OZDiscus]

Yes

[@MrSonnyjack]

Does 90% dry food work ? Only One in the week frozen ? Want try it at my f1 Heckel cross .

[@johnwhite2293]

Yes, my discus I have 8 have happily been living on tetra discus granules for 4 years now, I grew them from 1.5” and they are now 6” and healthy, never feed them frozen

[@laylazezo8151]

Can you ship to United states

[@OZDiscus]

Dry foods we can ship overseas. However, if there are any customs fees etc, you will need to handle from your end.

[@EuroGupper]

What is this obsession with feeding beef heart to Discus fish?