Touring One of The BEST Discus Fish Breeders I’ve Ever Seen!

I call I call this more Cheeto fingers it's like when you have Cheeto dust on your hands looks amazing magnificent gorgeous looking fish here that's bigger that you know that's your hand spread out there so we have to go a little bit away so the camera don't get hey everybody Cory from aquarium Co-op today we're at Europa discus Center they breed their discus they sell them we're in the breeding room right now there's people buying out in the showroom and uh pretty cool place so far I'm going to take you guys for a tour you can see lots of nice discus his own photography up in glass I think that's super cool so let's get started so first things first they're using a linear air piston pump that's why it's not super duper loud in here it is loud from water but you can see Sponge filters used in my opinion all all not all most readers use sponge filters and uh up top you have pairs of discus using terracotta slates and each one they're using a central Sump System and you know obviously magnificent gorgeous looking fish here airstones in each one very important I I stand by that you can see here these big big tanks for growout slides back you feed it ooh real hot water water these are really warm um and then they go out to the to the show floor and I'll show you guys that later you can see here he's built it on like pallet racking so kind of a an industrial cheaper solution a look at that pair there's smaller fry as well like not super small well I guess we take a a look over here much smaller Fry Still in a big big tank you got kind of a neck size up again some more small ones over there double stacking of the sponge filters I wish I had brought some Sponge filters cuz I think someone like this would really appreciate the Easy Flow system where it goes to the top and then cuz what it so okay this is a good example with the Easy Flow system the air is just going up and this one if he was to get it going he could pick up this kind of Gunk into the sponge filter for him and everything so I think that's an Advantage but the amount of just adult discus that have been raised in my opinion to basically full grown size you know we're not seeing the stunting we see so often you know look at I guess you guys can't see but that's bigger that you know that's your hands spread out there and my my my hands are like 12 ft long so that's you know that's a 12T long distance right there this is a very hard place to film because it's a lot of the same thing and if you're not a discus person you might go ah you know and I don't know enough about discus to be like oh is this is this an eruption type is this you know I I can't tell you the that specific morph versus this one which I've never seen before I've never seen this morph I call I call this morph Cheeto fingers it's like when you have Cheeto dust on your hands looks amazing then you got these guys but look at the water flow the water flow from the sumps is not much you see that very slow flow and air so the majority of the filtration down here is a sponge filter and let's let's look at the water coming in water's coming in faster on this one so that makes some sense lots of Ro type water well I don't know this could be filtration I think it's RO water though up top and then over up top here as well but I think this is you know I guess maybe the nicest discus breeding facility I've visited I've seen it you know farms in China and things like that I never got to visit Sten cisus so I I you know I can't document that for you guys but I think this is you know kind of topped here you can see here using acrylic Lids when you use acrylic this is it bows so people always act like I'm weird when I tell them this but acrylic absorbs water when it absorbs water it bows so you have to flip them all the time if you get something like uh lexan it absorbs the water a lot slower so a lot of times people go well then why do we use acrylic when we're using aquariums if it absorbs water well that's why you get all the bracing and everything this is a glass but that's why you get all the bracing everywhere on an acrylic tank so it won't bow but when you have just a sheet you can get it where it's doing you know all the way down like that it's an easy solution but not always the best one so you can see here this oh this is glass and acrylic so that's but a brace like this on acrylic that'll keep it from bowing as much but this is glass so it's glass and acrylic so doesn't doesn't really let make sure no maybe this is all acrylic this might all be yeah it's all acrylic so they bonded it this keeps it from Bo so the difference when you add a structural piece is very minimal Boe lots of Boeing you can see the corner just lifting up fish technically you jump out you get humidity leaving all that kind of stuff it's amazing to see these big guys you know they're still these are all huge in this quantity I've never seen this many big adults um but the prices are expensive when we get to the showroom the showroom itself you know some of these big dises are €300 all the breeding Pairs and this is the public area where uh people can purchase so it's much more of like a a studio if you will there's a glare there but you don't see it as much in person you know so you've got the kind of designer seating the live plants you know that's the piece ly there and the beautiful pictures and then you've got you know looks like this just sold what was in here they had some some Jaguar checkerboard red you know they were 140 each but it's empty and so then you go and you look at these albinos these albinos are €290 a piece and then again pairs up top I don't think the pairs are for sale at least I on prices you can see this is empty these were €250 a piece and then over here you've got more at €250 different you know selections of color variety of a pattern on that guy yep they've chosen their discus over there they're getting in a container styro to go it's cold outside it's below freezing right now these discus are 95 each I think this is the smallest size he's selling you can see just it's easier to fall in love with discus if you go oh I could just have these but you know there's 40 of them in here that's $4,000 another pair up here you can see it's just a slate that hangs in with a piece of tubing right behind it to keep it away from the wall and at the angle oh it looks like they got a poster as well that's cool you can see they bought from this tank here a lot of water on the floor it's cool cuz he lives in the front half of this place and so all of this was built as a know as a shop basically the net because the tanks are so deep has to go on a piece of pipe to get down that low these were yeah so these were 55 this size nice like melon color and some Sponge filters for sale look like some food as well learning about the filtration system the water comes in from the [Music] well he has a filter in the in the back all the poop of the fish the whole we saw that all the cramps are very clean yeah he don't need any small hoses anymore in this place is a dirt filter if he collects the poop he opens it and then it drags it out and all the dirt goes inside there immediately you can see that and there's the floater over there and because of the tanks are on top also could uh use a pump that it's more quick but if it closes here automatically the water goes from the top down there so it's a very clever system that he this is here water change it drops it's a it's a drop water changing so there he has no work with the water more or less just full automatically sometimes youan the pool if water is filled up it drops with small amounts of water that go out yeah this is just for the the breathing and for the they need another pH on top than the fish that he has down there what is the difference of the pH on top and he has 7.8 pH 5.5 up there wow that's a big difference so it's all connected the whole facility here the one on top yeah is connected he has to bring the pH lower so the fish start the breeding yeah theil here's the main filter of the breathing facility so we have to go a little bit away so the camera don't get wet so he he cleans the filter here with this system yeah the drum filter yeah and the dirt goes into that other chamber there and then just goes from there it's a very intelligent system that you build up here that's why you can work alone here because I have not seen any other employees because it's all full automatic and you can just press a button and he has no hoses nothing everything is full and you built the building from the ground up wants to change your water for the bre the filter the water goes in there and he opens stand there and from every aquarium the water goes [Music] then so this system works in many ways you could do it singly or all together and fill it up individually or together boxes up there he has a swimmer so if he he he uses water um it's it's also going in fact it's all automatic automatic you can take a look there's a swimmer so ah the the sty swimmer is the float valve is what they're describing so all of these sensors are for measuring the water level and depending on that yeah he can uh like clean it and stuff like that nice and you took your these pictures [Music] yourself so very nice that you do in fact you do everything it's all done by you you know okay yeah you know so his brother-in-law took the picture because it's also Vagner there yeah so know all right so let's go to the front show the selling facility here has the on top yeah are the ones up top for sale or just breeding Yes Yes sold the fish how much are those for example 28 how much you sell those about 700 I see yeah 2 290 2 200 the fish every fish is different here different pattern yeah the same quality it depends on the quality what is your what on what you look like what is quality for you fish has to be he has to have some special features he could show brething fac these fishes good from quality these are also very good from quality but you sorted these out to sell because they don't match 100% your idea of what is a perfect discus right I have a perfect discus yes you have them over there but these have to go because for you they are not th% just 100% Al it's like it's like it's like there's not so many discus out there [Music] yeah he try not to sell the perfect ones he tried to breed with them and take them for for breathing program sorry we don't have so many fish because there was Christmas sold out yeah makes sense buy them for [Music] presentation cob BL blue Di the diamond that's his favorite the spider leopards they have already a good body how many different types of discus are out there uh what color forms uh pattern for patterns the must would put it different he says that always put new forms out this is what he has in the program but this is not everything that there is you make a poster with all the color form patters then it would be the whole wall here are this that's what this is what he has or likes at the moment it's also not everything because he don't have them on the photo I think that this poster is really nice like like something like that with shrimp and with crayfish or with some kind of fish this is a good inspiration for me to see this for my breathing room I will also hang up something like that how much is a poster like this if you make oh cool nice so we will we will have a post for

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Length: 20min 2sec (1202 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2024