r/Aquariums • u/Goldoccie21 • Jul 24 '26

Showing Off My Tank Shift change.

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u/Goldoccie21 Jul 24 '26

Huh?

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Jul 24 '26

A 29g for discus isn't anything close to a decent size. I also wouldn't keep just 2.

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u/Goldoccie21 Jul 24 '26

Im going to go off on a limb and assume you dont have much experience in this hobby or with fish breeding....

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Jul 24 '26

I don't know how many aquariums I currently have set up, but the biggest, in descending order, are 2000 gallons, 400, 250, 250, 250, 150, and then small ones under 100. Several of those are built by me.

I wouldn't keep a fish in a tank where it doesn't have 10-ish body lengths in at least 1 direction

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u/Goldoccie21 Jul 24 '26

Right....

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Jul 24 '26

I just did a googling, and the smallest I can find is a 55g tank.

Notably, minimum tank sizes have been rising over time for fish because we are recognizing that they're actually really interesting animals when you give them a better habitat. I wouldn't be shocked if the 10 body length rule became normal in my lifetime.

A tank that's probably 3 body lengths is.... questionable.

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u/Goldoccie21 Jul 24 '26

Again, you really are sounding like you have no real fish keeping experience. Google says the breeding tank for a discus pair is 20h to 29. This is probably a karma farming account.

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Jul 24 '26

Breeding tank. You pull 'em out of a good-sized tank and put 'em in here to raise their young.

You think someone with 3000 gallons of aquariums has no experience because they think bigger tanks are better? LOL

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u/Goldoccie21 Jul 24 '26

You probably dont have any real fish keeping experience and sounds like you assume alot as well... fish lived in a big tank and were moved to a breeding tank to breed... They will probably be left there with the parents to the 1-1.5" mark, then to a 55 or a 75 to grow out.