I read somewhere that if you grow your discus in a bright light and light color surrounding they will have less black spots. I have just recently change the background to a white pleather (vinyl) to see if I will notice any change after a few months.

Ya..they try to blend in with the surrounding. These 2 pics are of the same fish. The first one I took the pic as I first brought the yellow pigeon home from the fish store, where it was housed with bare tank, bright light and no background. The second pic is after it was in my tank for 6 months, I have black background and lots of hiding dark caves. You be the judge.

I feed mine beef heart flakes brine shrimp and bloodworms. Im not sure if the tetra color bits are ok for them bc of the color enachers but I am not a expert lol. your second pic looks like the fish I am talking about. I asked the guy from the fish store and he says that the spots wont go away that they are genetics. Bummer hunh. Oh well. My tank looks way different now and I wish I couuld put a new pic up but the site wont allow me to its anoying. I ordered 5 new discus and they should be here Wendesday. I got two baby blue pandas two red turquoise and one red snakeskin. I cant wait!! Yippie!!! Do you have T5HO lights on your tank?

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maybe the picture size are too large? try resizing it down to 600 pixel width: http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

if not just upload it to a free site like: http://www.tinypic.com/, would love to see your discus picture :)

hmm, tetra color bits are highly recommended by many discus breeders here in canada...some people here also said bloodworms can make the discus color more reddish...I don't know...black spots or not, as long as they're happy :)