AMAZING DISCUS FISH BREEDER!! [Tour]

we're here at Europa discus Center one of the biggest and best highquality discus breeders in all of Europe so many discus fish in here just like a whole rainbow of discus what's doing the papa lots of work is done here people made it even better even bigger how much total water is in all these systems 50,000 lit this gape is awesome it's really nice wow he's got Bonsai 300 years old I'm scared to touch this tree I've never seen one with this shape this is sign of fertility does it like help my fertility if I touch it everybody's just give it a nice little tapl what's up everyone my name is George and today we're here at Europa discus Center this is one of the biggest and best highquality discus breeders in all of Europe we're actually an hour outside the city of Frankfurt in Germany the name of this small town is called nackenheim we're about to go meet the owner and master discus breeder Rudy inside he's going to be giving us a private tour and teaching you guys about how to breed the biggest and best discus in the world let's go on [Music] [Music] in hello hello we're here with Rudolph Wagner the owner and master breeder of Europa discus Center you guys can see thousands of discus in the background we're about to get into the tour you don't speak any English sorry I speak no the good English what are you talking you that's English you can spoke English better been translate we're going to make sure you practice your English today hello guys his brother-in-law Andreas is going to be helping us translate he works within the business as well I'm doing the photography the videography also social media I'm managing the whole site and also the shop you were born in ubekistan I've heard some really amazing things about this place when did you move here and how long have you been a German citizen 1985 Wagner it's a German name there were lots of Germans that followed the call of of the empress Karina the great to go to Russia so that they have land and everything they wanted a new life they moved back to Germany again where do we even begin tell us your secrets what are you doing Secrets it started very rough he was breeding in the basement and then he needed to rent a bigger location we need to build a house so that he can always with the fish so that if something happens then he can react immediately what if the lifespan of a discus fish up to 15 years that's a long time for freshw fish how much total water is in all these system it's about 50,000 lit this is a spyer it's called spider web how much are they for between 600 and 800 just one four pair are these the most expensive discs you have in the facility yeah so it's like after a certain point dis is just like they kind of tap out it depends um with a good pair you can earn more than 2,000 that is crazy there's so much to get into with this K how much is um one Baby about uh 40 year old that's reasonable I can get one of those so these are Rudy's most prized discus the best quality you see here these are his first selection for his breeding program when the new breeding room is ready he will start breeding with them so it's just like a huge Variety in here how many discus fish are in here right now yeah you can count if you want you don't know when you have so many discs you don't count anymore they're just like super colorful pancakes I love them they're so lovely are these discus fish okay in like an empty aquarium like this yeah this is the most important part if you keep them in small groups they will always be stressed out and feel a little bit hunted in a bigger group they feel much safer when you're keeping discus in a display tank you always want to keep them in as big of a group as possible you're saying the bigger the better how old are these right here 3 to 4 months 3 to four months yeah and so are all the fish in the bottom row very young fish here 3 to four months are these breeding pairs all on the top yeah gotcha so how how old are all of your adult discus pairs on the top 12 to 15 months so very young relatively young fish these yellow ones these are like a bright yellow what are these called yellow snake skin and the other one is a golden albino these guys are the pigeons yes yeah this one's more red than that one does that mean this is a female female yes gotcha how do you know the difference between the male and the female then when they're about 1 year old then you can tell okay this is a male this is a female but about 80% parents you never really know what your kid is going to be eventually you'll find out but it's going to take longer than a year where do discus come from the best quality fish is coming from Malaysia because they have the best conditions for breeding discus they have the right temperature the right water quality perfect for discus I think the most important fish in The discus Community was the pigeon when the pigeon came out a red discus we have a red strain the first time that the discus showed that we can do something special with this fish create colors that anybody has uh ever seen before a wild cot discus looks like brownish yellow they're not like the pretty super colorful fish you're seeing in this facility right now basically the Malaysians took this fish they started going absolutely crazy with the colors and it's come full circle now back to Germany and the rest of the world where everyone's able to kind of access these super highquality colorful discus the most important part of the discus is need to be big and Dr and it's just the shape it's the pattern makes worth more than the other ones breed us all over the world kept improving the The Strain lots of work is done here um lots of people made it even better even bigger you would actually be willing to sell one of your parents he has always the best ones for himself he has also discuss he won't sell they can signal their color that they're in stress or they're excited here for example it's a little bit uh too much don't like the camera out get off the property get out guys and this is Mosaic Mosaic because of the dressing pattern like some kind of swirls how much is this for this pair 400 500 4 to 500 this is Red Diamond how much are those up to 800 we want to have as much red as possible if you see one that is completely red then it's most likely was fed with some coloring food so it's that like the real sign of a good discus you basically like big there were big uh discus championships you cannot go there with coloring discus you need to have a completely genetic coloring we don't feed with colored food here just for claric it's nothing bad but for us we try to breed with the disc because we try to improve completely genetic through the selective breeding what is the name of that one in the back this is red meone and this is red Valentine so this is called a red melon yeah and this is called a red Valentine he is um trying to uh breed the red melon with red Valentine so that you have the best from both world this is all red Mone that fish is crazy I don't know if there's another species of fish in the aquarium hobby maybe koi but not even koi you don't get colors like that I mean that's crazy these two are so big so that's a tiger turquoise yeah yes oh my God kind of mesmerizing how beautiful these fish are what what's he doing you look me they Papa they recognizing these guys this is uh golden checkerboard they're not shy these ones are so playful these ones are so shy and this is why I think people like discs because they have their own character some of them are just a little bit more shy how much are the golden Checker boards the same P yes this is a blue snake skin blue snake skin yes you're going from like the brightest orange color I've seen in a fish to like the most metallic blue and they have very beautiful eyes like dark red eyes when they're starting to breed the color of the eyes they get more intensified brighter red these are beautiful this is a little bit of hybrid discus with lots of uh strains inside feel like I'm getting like an art tour these are the Cobalt Blues I love the Cobalt Blues this is the albino snake skin it's very hard to breed albino need to have a foster parents so far you guys have been taken on a really fun colorful Journey now it turns a little bit darker basically discus fish well they're not always very good parents some of them are good parents some of them are bad parents they can also eat the fry also the eggs the male will eat the the eggs because he wants the female to lay eggs again it's their way to have sex classic male Behavior yeah need to have a foster parents and he can put a disco la for the young ones from them to the other foster parents the best way to find good pairs is when you keep them in a large group then it's possible to uh naturally find pairs when they find each other they're harmonizing with each other sometimes you need to force breed them because you have a very good female and you like the this one specific mail you try to mix them together but then doesn't work out because they don't understand each other this is fish that pair up naturally are going to be the best pairs yeah we're going to actually Feed The discus fish what do you feed these guys to make them so happy and fat some of the discus breeders are feeding beef heart beef heart yeah it's completely not sense when you feed everyday discus with beefart after one year the liver will be bigger and yellowish these kind of discus won't live that much if you want to have healthy discus give them what they would eat in a while that is a lot of discus food everything here is a kind of mixture in the wild they eat very light food it's fish shrimps clamps or muscles uh plant-based food they need a variety yeah they need a whole variety so that the digestant will work properly hey they look look like you could kill someone with those this is our own discus granulate that we are producing here in Germany these are pellets small pellets that can be eaten by small but also some the bigger ones it's fish mix RMS fish phly only food from the sea ah smells natural yeah easy to digest for The discus no beefart please don't feed your discus with beefart wow look at them swarm the food I mean you must feed a lot of food to all these guys Rudy is being really nice and he is going to feed all of the discus fish in facility for us right now one day they eat quite a lot 1 kogam at least per day wow at any given time there can be between 2,000 and 4,000 disc in the facility maybe more like here uh these four boxes are going out to some customers in Germany P them in the afternoon around 4 p.m. now pick up Rudy wow he's got Bonsai from Japan this his second hobby now so you are guys this is 300 years 300 years old look you can completely see through it yes oh oopsies I'm scared to touch this tree big dog this is the Bonsai Garden we have a a massive bonsai tree right over there apparently that one's 100 years old this Bonsai I've never seen one with this shape what is it what's going on has a meaning a deep [Laughter] meaning I can translate that it's a it's a phenomenal like length and everything it's just I think the viewers going to have a lot of questions but close to you oh I cannot no Japanese size of fertility does it like help my fertility if I touch it everybody's yeah so so just give it a nice little tap and you wish something yeah and wish something yeah okay I got it that is very nice yeah again this view will make you question everything you thought you knew about the bonsai tree wow yeah so is it worth more because of uh the shape the longer the better it's like everything this is the longest one that he get okay on how many Bonsai you got Rudy what's going on four or five six more Bonsai over here this one is a little bit older they can be up to 1,000 years if you like that's a long time for a plant to be alive if I get reincarnated I that's what I want to be this is um yapan Maple Leaf yeah Maple yeah Maple Leaf yeah you can see it almost looks like yes how old is this one 100 y 100 100 years old with Bonsai you need someone who has been specially trained in the art of bonsai to come and maintain them do you have someone who comes and takes care of them no you take care of it yourself yes that's his hobby he really likes to do this yeah I want one but what's going on what are the cages for that's SP katus kakat kakat like the bird [Music] yes these are legit why so you've been brething animals your whole life yeah it motivates him and gives him uh Power gives him life and energy yeah nice the best Bonsai which one is your favorite mine best maybe not the most expensive but the prettiest the prettiest this one's got flowers flowers yes I'm surprised that you don't breed koi did you ever think about breeding koi you would love koi you are like already halfway there with the bar you just need to fill up the pool with different kind of water and then you have Co you better yet take out the pool and put in a pond so are these branches dead yeah and you don't cut it yes there's some meaning to this the branches die off and the living ones uh has them as support it's kind of like a hidden meaning yeah the living ones are using the support of the old dead branches to keep growing you have a massive tank in there he wants to start Salt Water welcome to the dark side my friend have you done salt water before never if he needs some help he will call you yeah you're going to be watching a lot of my videos I think hello look at this T dude this scape is awesome it's really nice so the filter is going to be down here and you're just waiting to finish the breeding room before you do this look at this he's got csle lights up here he's like really all ready to go he started with the salt water because he cannot see any discos at home he has enough discos there so he want to see something different so this is why he started Sal time how does the family feel about the disc fish more important question is how does your wife feel about the discus fish I think it wasa's idea that you start with discus goldfish yeah didn't like it at all she said to him uh maybe you put some discus there yeah you're okay no problem you may be very inspired right now to want to keep one of these discus fish some discus Keepers do a water change every day what do you guys do when it comes to water changes with this kind of system that we have you don't need to massively water change it's very simple we have two sections the first one the debris is landing inside of here on the bottom if you look here the whole debris is getting sucked in this is the cleaning of the tank this is it we don't do anything to the tanks this is all automatic we also providing lots of oxygen to the filtration the bacteria will get much stronger and you have a much better filter so this is all like the biom media you can fill it up with sponge with lava stone like here the more surface you have the better and also don't forget the oxygen it's very important that we have a oxygen Stone here on the bottom and the bubbles are traveling upward so that the filter never gets full with debris it's basically the same system recreated all through the all tanks are separate filtered it's safer this way with separate filtrations he minimized the risk of spreading diseases we are producing our own electricity you do have solar panels on the roof yeah you see that uh it's producing because it's the sun is shining right now here's the battery it's already giving some juice to the plant here seems like in Germany the people are really like conscious about the energy consumption we want that uh like this because it's better better for the environment and it makes more sense we save actually money right because we are using our own energy that doesn't exist quite yet in America especially for a private business at this scale as V3 attention breeding is going on here this is going to be the new breeding room yes you've extended this building what's the plan this will be a professional breeding room not everybody is allowed to come in the traffic needs to be reduce the fish are get scared the breeding pairs they won't breed that good if you keep them for themselves that's the best way so that when people walk in over there you're not disturbing all these are the water containers this is what's holding all the tap water that you guys aate and also heat up but tap water you need to activate the water first simple treatments just some oxygen and adjusting the temperature that's it then the fish feel much better we call it re-energized making dead water to Living Water you're activating activating the water yeah if you take it from a natural source like a river or something it's already activated but in the tap it's not living lots of pressure inside of there and this is flowing water so simple but makes so much sense yeah I try to explain like this because more people understand it lots of our customers just pour the tap water inside there's lots of customer after water changes the fish they are stressed out they shouldn't be when they feel the most happy yeah after water change they should be reenergized ah look at that we got a discus poster the next time I come back I'm going to know all my discus that's a lot to memorize I'm going to need a cheat sheet if people are interested in buying your discus do you guys sell The discus on your website Europa discus center.com dode dode for Germany you are technically allowed to walk into this building they do it by appointment only so I'm going to leave the contact information down in my description below and they can ship anywhere in the world if you can pay for it they will ship you The discus that you want you guys have been awesome we say uh in our outro is remember to keep those nit trats low so I don't know how you say that in German Pro dis and beers if you breed fish you need to drink beer 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Length: 18min 58sec (1138 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 03 2023