Acclimation – Unseal your box slowly and remove the rubber bands of all the plastic bags tied up. Repeat this for all the tropical fish bags you have purchased incase if there are more parcels belonging to your order. Add little quantity of water from your tank to the bag slowly as a part of Acclimation. Ensure you do not add water from plastic bags into the tank. When acclimating fish that have been shipped, it is very important that the fishes in the plastic bags need time to adjust to your tanks pH. While the temperature difference between your tank and the water in the bag is important, the difference in pH is more important. After 30 minutes of slow acclimation, gently place the Discus fishes into your tank. You can use your hands directly for the same or a hand glove as well.

Lighting – Once they are added safely into your tank, its the time for them to settle. Please do not disturb the fishes just received using nets or striking hard at them. It is most important to switch OFF the lights for the first 48hrs. Higher is the time given for them to settle, faster is their perfect adaptation in your tank.

Bullying – Incase if the Discus fishes are the newly added Discus species to your tank for the first time, they will start free swimming in 8 hours of time. Otherwise, the existing Discus fishes in your tank will start bullying the newly settled ones leading the new fishes to stay corner most of the times. Once the fish calms down, relaxes, and once they relieve themselves from the stress of the trip, they immediately start creating their own pecking order. It will be very aggressive at first and a lot of our clients get highly worried during this transition phase. Once this initial behavior is over, and the pecking order is established, the only time you’ll see aggression again is during feeding time. During feeding time is when you may notice the top Kings go up to eat first and then the rest of the discus will follow afterward.