Discus fish body is disc-shaped and flat. Its body color is rich and varied, mainly in red tone red colorful brown colorful tone brown, blue based tone blue colorful, red, yellow, blue, green, black, brown, white, purple and other embellishment, color range, beautiful, known as “tropical fish” reputation. Compared with other fish is not easy to wait to raise. To use the large aquarium (90 cm or more in length), the best box on the density equivalent plants, place a few pieces of rock to create a quiet and comfortable living environment. According to historical records, the Discus in accordance with the classification method advocated by Mr. Hecker – Bu Liehan divided into colorful two strains of wild colorful and artificial breeding. Among them, the wild wild Hegel colorful colorful wild brown colorful, wild blue colorful, wild green colorful; artificial breeding colorful fish.

Body length: 150 ~ 200 mm

Origin: Amazon River basin and Peru, Brazil, Guyana.

Difference between male and female: female genital slightly wider.

Feeding difficulty: in general.

Food habits: fresh animal food.

Propagation Methods: demersal eggs.