Tips on acclimating your new discus fish... When you receive your new discus fish, you should remove the rubber bands from their bag and add approximately 2 inches of water to the bag that your discus fish are in from your aquarium. Allow the bag to float upright in the aquarium for around 10 minutes with the discus fish in it and then add another 2 inches of water... repeat this procedure until the bag is 3/4 of the way full of water. Once you have done this pour the discus fish and water from the shipping bag into their new home in your discus fish aquarium. This will allow the temperature, pH and waters hardness to gradually adjust, helping your new discus fish to acclimate to their new home in a stable manner. Once the discus fish are adjusted to there new home(usually 1-2 hours) go ahead and feed them.

Generally live blackworms are the easiest to get discus fish to eat. Frozen bloodworms are another great first food for new discus fish. I also recommend leaving the aquarium lights on not off for your new discus fish's first entry into the tank... imagine yourself being placed in a strange new house. Wouldn't you feel more comfortable if you could see your surroundings?