[ikk157]

@ikk157 @humanpuff69

Yes. Discus fish demands a lot. Takes time and money. I just had fallen in love with them so I went from keeping to breeding them. There is always high demand for them so it's easy to find buyers. But it can take a toll on you. They are super sensitve about everything. Someone always has to stay there to make sure air pumps and filtrs are working and also feed them. Discus babies need to be fed 8 times a day for 2 years. Also you need to change 50% of water everyday too. Also what you feed them is  not regular fish food. Also there are qualities. So pair of grown avarage quality Discusfish can be minium 50-100 usd.

Now the clearness. There are several reasons why tanks not clear. The basic reason is because either fishkeeper has no clue what he/she does or doesn't care. Second reason is tanks filter system is not powerful enough for the tank or it's not cleaned or well maintained. Plus if you r keeping Goldfish or Koi, then needs extra poweful filter system as well as water changes more often. Also have to make sure you don't have too many fish in your tank or result would be a not so clear water.

Well it doesn't has to be expensive or over caring. You just need to know what you are dong. If you want extreeming beautiful fish like Discusfish then yes you need to invest both time and money. If you want to keep messy fish like Goldfish then you need to make sure you have right number of fish, tank size and extra powerful filters. Plus regular water changes.

But if you want to have not so expensive tank which you don't have to touch for 3-6 months, that's easy too. You just need to know the basics. What you need bigger tank, less fish and good filter system. For example lets say you have a 3 feet tank. You can setup a Tetra fish tank. small types. If you need it to run auto for months then you need a canister filter. But settting this up is not hard at all.

You have some solid points right there! I really enjoyed reading your post!

You are absolutely right, many people have no clue on what they’re doing. And a good portion of them don’t even care! And the worst are the people that thing they’re doing things properly even though they’re not! I absolutely HATE it when i see people putting fish in the small aquarium bowls with zero filtration, zero aeration, zero heating and so on. It really makes me feel disgusted! 

Not to mention the ones that simply dump their newly bought fish into the aquarium without even bothering with the entire acclimation process. And the ones that won’t let a newly setup tank cycle. I can keep on going forever at what mistakes I’ve seen being done on a frequent manner. And the response i get when i tell them how to do things properly is mostly “{insert name here} does it like that and his fish lived for {insert amount of time here}”. That makes me absolutely mad!!! Just because they managed to survive under those conditions doesnt mean that they’re healthy!!!