cobraden
05-04-2013, 01:36 PM
Well I finally went and did it. I just looked and I joined this site back in Feb of 2003, so after a little over 10 years, I decided to jump into the discus waters. Pretty sure this is my first post. But I've done a lot of reading on this site over the years.
In March of his year I decided to start my discus set up. ( Here is a link to the actual tank build http://www.houstonfishbox.com/vforums/showthread.php?56986-cobraden-s-110-freshwater-build ) and since then, I have had a 110 gallon tank that was set up to be a discus tank but until today it was a tetra, cory, oto and plant tank. yesterday it actually became a discus tank. Other than the plants that I have listed in the build thread and some additional corkscrew I added , the tank is home to 3 Tiger Turquoise Discus, 30+ Cardinal Tetras, 16 Rummy Nose, 8 Sterbi Cory, and 4 Oto.
I plan to add 3 more discus in the near future, but still haven't decided on which ones. Would like some red in the tank but don't want anything that would pepper too much. I know I'll get some due to the black background and sand, if I go with any of the pigeon blood varieties, I just want to minimize it. One option is the Virgin Reds, but not sure on that one just yet.
Here are a few pics of the tank build & residents as of today. Please pardon the phone camera quality.
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0421_zpse1278ca8.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0421_zpse1278ca8.jpg.html)
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0420_zps842d317f.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0420_zps842d317f.jpg.html)
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0413_zps4e3112d6.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0413_zps4e3112d6.jpg.html)
In March of his year I decided to start my discus set up. ( Here is a link to the actual tank build http://www.houstonfishbox.com/vforums/showthread.php?56986-cobraden-s-110-freshwater-build ) and since then, I have had a 110 gallon tank that was set up to be a discus tank but until today it was a tetra, cory, oto and plant tank. yesterday it actually became a discus tank. Other than the plants that I have listed in the build thread and some additional corkscrew I added , the tank is home to 3 Tiger Turquoise Discus, 30+ Cardinal Tetras, 16 Rummy Nose, 8 Sterbi Cory, and 4 Oto.
I plan to add 3 more discus in the near future, but still haven't decided on which ones. Would like some red in the tank but don't want anything that would pepper too much. I know I'll get some due to the black background and sand, if I go with any of the pigeon blood varieties, I just want to minimize it. One option is the Virgin Reds, but not sure on that one just yet.
Here are a few pics of the tank build & residents as of today. Please pardon the phone camera quality.
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0421_zpse1278ca8.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0421_zpse1278ca8.jpg.html)
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0420_zps842d317f.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0420_zps842d317f.jpg.html)
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s112/cobraden/IMAG0413_zps4e3112d6.jpg (http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cobraden/media/IMAG0413_zps4e3112d6.jpg.html)