Discus known as “the king of the aquarium’s” well-loved hobby of ornamental fish. Increasing number of avid, create disc prices to be expensive, especially for species that are famous or trend. Along with the many fans of the discus, discus contests are often held and attended by many participants.
There are four species of the natural disc, namely Symphysodon Discus (Discus Heckel), S. aequifasciata axelrodi (Brown Discus), S.aequi axelrodi-fasciata (Brown Discus), S. aequi aequifasciata-fasciata (green disc), and S. aequifasciata haroldi (blue disc). Like the hickey, many fans and creativity in membudidaya discus breeder fish varieties raises new hybrid discs with color and pattern vary. In fact, you could say almost every year will show the type disc barudengan interesting color and pattern. Discus color variations in the market ranging from white, yellow, red, yellow, blue, until brown. While the pattern starting from a straight line, the line of random dots, to the spots. From the variety and color shades, the many emerging new varieties, including snake skin, leopard snake, pigeon red, Marlboro red, blue diamond, turquoise and red. Almost every year comes a new type with an attractive color and pattern.
Quality standards are determined from the physical discus fish a smooth, no defects, has an intact scales, a rounded body shape and somewhat flattened laterally thick, and a fluffy tail fin perfect and no buds. Usually, a rather wide mouth discus with bright color and firm fans and preferably have a high selling value.
One that can degrade the quality of the discus is the presence of black dots like sand in an area dorsal fin and the destruction of fin rot disease attack. Discus despite disease that has been recovered, the price is still low because the fish will become disabled. Therefore, to maintain quality discs is required knowledge and accuracy in performing maintenance, namely, among others, by monitoring the quality of water and feed regularly.