Yellow discus - Enhance their color and prevent them turning orange! I DISCUS DIVANA

Hello my beloved discus family. It's been a while and was tough to keep head above water with all the diseases entering South Africa via the import market. I scaled down my full time fish rooms and will hopefully have more time for KZbin videos. I focused less on editing and just provided some content. If you feel this content was great, consider subbing and joining my discus family.

[@paulhunt2888]

It's nice to see you back creating vlogs. Thank you for today's 🙂

[@charlieman007]

Very Happy to see you back !!! great video as usual. Thank you D.D. !!! Going through this sort of thig myself. 2 out of my three yellow Discus have turned full orange in just a few months (even though they kept their white and/or black markings). It is definitely the type(s) of food I was feeding them. Thanks again.

[@discusdivana7581]

Yes I often see in Marlboros, Red whites, or Yellow whites or Snow leopards or Red Eruptions that the faces stay light and the rest of the body is affected.

[@sandeepprajapati1769]

Good to see your new make over

[@sos3309]

Good hearing from you again. Take care ...

[@Holger-ki2cc]

Very nice video! Good that you are back👍👍😀😀

[@discusdivana7581]

Thank you Holger! Lots of love.

[@solarac7249]

Very nice colorful your discus

[@shindama]

Good to see you back!

[@SkullAquatics]

Very good information 👍👍👍

[@aquahobby1982]

i have been waiting for this video :) :) great video

[@discusdivana7581]

Haha thank you. Your blue diamonds / scorpions are so stunning in colour. You must make a video on how you got them so blue.

[@aquahobby1982]

@@discusdivana7581 i fed them lots of Spirulina ☺️🤟

[@mpeke86]

Hello, great video and thanks for those info...now what about lutein & zeaxanthin?

[@AH-bs5wr]

Helpful video divana! can you tell me what to do if my New discus is not eating ? Bought 5 discus for my 120 gallon aquarium And they’re not eating the food I give,Even tho they pick at the subtrate and are very active when I close the light but they seem to ignore the frozen brine shrimp I give them. Thank you

[@discusdivana7581]

Hello AH how long have you had them? Often discus won't eat when stressed - moving them can cause the stress to stay in their systems for more than 4 days! So their appetite will be less. Also, discus are used to the food they used to eat - almost like a palatability issue. Eventualy when they get hungry enough, they will eat if they're healthy. Sometimss they eat as soon as you leave - they're very smart. Lastly, a fear issue also stops eating. If they're scared of you, they won't eat like pirhanas 😃

[@discusdivana7581]

Try accessing the exact same food your shop or supplier used - that also works.

[@AH-bs5wr]

@@discusdivana7581 hi thanks for the advice , I asked the store guy and he told me they fed them bloodworms which I bought right away.

[@AH-bs5wr]

@@discusdivana7581 i closed the light of the aquarium and dropped the food in the back of the tank where they settled then Went far from the tank and no Joke about how crazy They got about the blood worms , even after feeding them by 20 minutes they Where still picking at the ground looking for that tasty worm 🥰🥰😍 Also offcourse Thanks for your response and help really helped me and hope your reply will help others too🤩

[@SteveRogers-zr8dx]

So do you think that it's not possible to keep red melons and yellow melons together in the same tank long term without one or the other turning orange? I ask because if the red melons don't get enough carotenoids, then their red tends to fade to orange.

[@shindama]

Hey there any new videos coming out soon?

[@hemantkoli6635]

Thank you 👍🏻

[@fleskesm]

I heard that the albino golden strain isn’t amenable for turning orange. True?

[@discusdivana7581]

Hi! It is true to most extent yes because they lack some of the yellow pigment under their skin that yellow melons have. So carotenoids aren't absorb as much to reveal the orange colour because that top pigment layer is not there. Like ghosts or snow white discus. They don't turn orange or red. But fed enough carotenoids, you may see a pinkish shimmer develop on their bodies. 🙂

[@fleskesm]

Thanks! Are there also albino golden checkerboard or only solid golden? I had a discus tank but sold it. Regret it till this day! Maybe I will buy a new tank.

[@Teamlastofus]

Hello Discus Divana. Good to see u back again. U deserve so many more subs than u have. I have recently purchased my first breeding pair and have learnt so much from all your videos. Please keep the videos coming. Are u on Instagram? Good to see u back.............a few thousand years later lol

[@discusdivana7581]

Hi James! Congrats on the breeding pair. Thanks for the kind words. Yes I am on instagram: discusdivana_za . I used an underscore in my name. Facebook I have a profile just "Discus Divana".

[@Teamlastofus]

@@discusdivana7581 thankyou 👄💗💞💖💘❤ your my go to discus advisor

[@jonboshua]

Would like to know why part of my red melon color instead or red is now turning a hint of orange

[@lawg2909]

My yellow discus already turned orange. Can it still go back to bright yellow?

[@MsDJM1234]

Can you reverse it once they have already turned orange? Mine is bright orange now. What commercial food do you recommend? Thanks!

[@discusdivana7581]

Hi there, yes you can reverse it to some extent. Because the discus's bodies absorb it from the inside, they deposit these carotenoids from their blood vessels to underneath the skin. So when you stop feeding these carotenoids, the continuous deposit under the skin stops. The discus can go lighter, to a golden colour but I have never seen deep orange discus return to that bright pure yellow again. But you can make them golden for sure, which is almost yellow!

[@mattyoung8171]

I have a grey angelfish doing very well almost the size of a dinner plate is it genetic or skin pigment making the grey

[@discusdivana7581]

Hi it's porbably genetic 😃

[@BRV.Fischtank]

I had a problem with my orange discus, they have they have black point and fail to make them disappear. By the way, I love watching your videos, it would be great if you posted more often.

[@discusdivana7581]

Hello Razvan, thanks for watching. The black points or spots you refer to are probably peppering in the face. These are deeper underlying pigment that can lighten or darken in your tank. Try lighter sand, or barebottom, or a brighter cool white light to help lighten the black spots. If the black is in the fins, that is genetic and not much can be done to lighten it. The Eastern farms sometimes have the loveliest discus and often the black in the fins are a trait that the fish come from those farms. It's genetic and a beauty of its own.

[@BRV.Fischtank]

@@discusdivana7581 Thank you for the help.

[@m.labdwi]

You are gorgeous such as discus

[@thediscusmaniac3526]

Hello is their any way i can contact you i have a orange discus who have a verry thin belly always swim in the corner and didnt eat for weeks now i think it will die if i have no good help please help i treated with meds but doesnt improve

[@discusdivana7581]

Hello Ashley! It sounds like a severe case of either liver/kidney damage or possibly affected malnutrition from a resistant intestinal flagellate. A parasite. There are many different types that are microscopic - it is less likely to be a worm, rather a protozoa or flagellate. If you used metronidazole, I find it is not the answer. If the belly is sunken in, then it hasn't eaten in a long time and already severely affected. I use either Octozin, Octocil or Dimetridazole antibiotics for such a severe case. I keep the fish in freshwater with epsom salts at 1 tbsp per 40 litres, with 80mg/l dimetridazole replaced daily 50% for 5 days. A very warm temperature in this case increases the survival of the fish. 32 degrees celcius and lots of oxygen. The discus will not touch any dry harsh common commercial foods or any foods rich in protein (40%). Almost like you do not want to eat a full plate of food when you are nautious. Try feeding brine shrimp, or mosquito larvae if you can find, or black worms, but not earthworms. Last resort is good quality bloodworms - discus often go for this. I avoid bloodworms in general but last resort this works. Plain rinsed bloodworms. Then I move onto garlic bloodworms, and then frozen fish mix I make myself. I use hake, spinach, garlic and wormwood (if you can find wormwood) in their frozen foods. I blend it all together and feed a small cube once a day until the discus eats more.

[@discusdivana7581]

Ashley, if the discus is really skinny, often you cannot get the fish back to a fat fish again. If the discus is so skinny that you can see its facial bones, this is called Razor back and too late. But you can make it stronger to eat again. I hope this helps your little boy or girl. Lots of love.

[@thediscusmaniac3526]

@@discusdivana7581 its really doesnt eat for a while now iam really supprised the fish is still alive actualy its just not swimming mutch is not orange dark like he was before now he is more light orange.. I tried a lot.. Also in the middle of the body i see it is sunken in.. Iam now using octocil as treatment but no positive result i raised the temp as well.. I used before Medications like esha hexamita product and also i have tried a lot its a parrasite in its stomach for sure when i feed the fish always swim away to the other side of the tank so it can avoid eating

[@thediscusmaniac3526]

I buy already so mutch different food so he would eat you know its sad :( i dont know what to do.. I have brown frozen shrimp i feed he avoid beefheart he avoid discus life food also not eating flakes for discus also even bloodworm he wouldnt take its so strange i treated with few things esha-ndx doesnt help

[@AHmad-pm4pb]

You need to improve your mic sound system.

[@jasonbalmaceda6579]

Yeah my Snow White and yellow pigeon turned a more orange pigment

[@discusdivana7581]

Interesting, so your snow white did not have a lot of pigment on its skin then! Then you can see the pink or orange happening.

[@DebajyotiDev]

She looks like my ex. seriously, for .3 sec I was shocked.

[@furiouzzzz]

They turn orange cus everything you give them comes with orange pigment even spirulina

[@discusdivana7581]

Yes like I said in my video, spirulina is better but not perfect. It does make discus golden colour.

[@mdtajukhan8392]

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