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wiz
10-21-2013, 06:48 PM
Hello!

I want to say "hello" to everybody, my name is Martín, I'm from Córdoba (Argentina), and want to share some pictures of my planted tank, with discus since the last 5 months. I'm growing 4 discus, starting from 2 inches some and from 3 inches the big pigeon.

not "champion discus" but I love them, my main purpose is the Planted Tank, the discus come later. I'm feeding them 6 times per day with a mix of 3 premium quality granules for discus, + blood worms/tubifes every other day, and just a little beefheart two times per week.

Discus are growing very fine and they are very active. (surely I will not have the bigger discus in the world, but I really don't want that.)

I change 50% of the water once per week, and since I introduce the discus, I added another 30% WC in the middle of the week (and completely suspended the addition of KNO3 :))

Also, I have 20 cardinal tetras, 8 lemmon tetras, 6 cories sterbay, a "Apple snail", 3 SAE, like 10 ottocinclus, and A LOOOOOT OF RED CHERRYS SHRIMPs.

I have no algae problems at all.



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dillpickle
10-21-2013, 08:13 PM
Beautiful tank you got there! Is that another tank of yours you have there at the end?
wiz
10-21-2013, 08:50 PM
Thank you!! No is another moment of the same tank! Now I removed the glosso of the bottom cause it is better for feeding discus
YSS
10-21-2013, 09:55 PM
Great looking tank. Good luck with your discus
Madaboutdiscus
10-21-2013, 10:18 PM
The tank is beautiful. Are you sure your discus are just 3 inches? They look bigger. Your blues look a little dark could be the lighting but they do look dark to me. If they are young discus you really need to do daily water changes. Literally everyone here will tell you that. It doesnt just help them get big it helps them stay healthy.

-Victoria
wiz
10-22-2013, 06:27 AM
Thank you, maybe the light, they look healthy to me. They change color every time, mainly cause of one of the discus is fighting them a lot. Im not with the daily wc school, The water parameters are ok, i have a very big filter (diy) and lot of plants, and i test the water parameters weekly.
wiz
10-22-2013, 06:39 AM
As I understand they will take color when adults. And they only show the stress bars when fighting. But the parents where pretty dark too. How do you say when they are not artificial strains? Here whe say 'Salvajes' in spanish.

Mine are f1
Madaboutdiscus
10-22-2013, 07:47 AM
Thank you, maybe the light, they look healthy to me. They change color every time, mainly cause of one of the discus is fighting them a lot. Im not with the daily wc school, The water parameters are ok, i have a very big filter (diy) and lot of plants, and i test the water parameters weekly.

My filter is way oversized for the tank its rated for 110g but on a 56 g, but they still require daily wcs. Its just something discus have to have.

-Victoria
Madaboutdiscus
10-22-2013, 07:47 AM
As I understand they will take color when adults. And they only show the stress bars when fighting. But the parents where pretty dark too. How do you say when they are not artificial strains? Here whe say 'Salvajes' in spanish.

Mine are f1

What strain are they?

-Victoria
wiz
10-22-2013, 09:15 AM
About size, they was 2" and 3" whn I buy it, now they are bigger. The pigeons I'm not sure the age, cause the breeder bought them from other breeder. The two "dark ones" are 8 months old.
About straing, they are Wild F1, blue. My breeder and friend told me that, maybe he can be wrong.

Now I doubt if the fathers are the turquoise or the wilds of the following two pictures from the breeder:

http://clubacuaristascba.org/foro/download/file.php?id=12205&mode=view
http://clubacuaristascba.org/foro/download/file.php?id=12204&mode=view

you are the specialist in discus :)
plecocicho
10-22-2013, 09:19 AM
Wiz, they are called wildcaught discus or simply wild discus.
wiz
10-22-2013, 09:26 AM
a few about my setup

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wiz
10-22-2013, 09:27 AM
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John_Nicholson
10-22-2013, 09:43 AM
Nice looking tank.

-john
wiz
10-22-2013, 10:56 AM
Thank you!!
wiz
10-23-2013, 11:06 AM
Confirmation: They are RED TURQUOISE
Nu2Discus
10-23-2013, 12:31 PM
Hi there! Beautiful tank and fish.

Your filtered set up looks very interesting. I don't think I've seen anything like that before. Can you tell us a bit about it please? Is it filled with biomedia and filter floss? I'd love to hear how you got that going.
wiz
10-23-2013, 12:50 PM
Hello, thank you. The system work with two U shape filters (based in the blas pascal principle of Les Vases communicants). First one act as mechanical filter, and the second and big one act a biological filter, plenty with 30liters of a mix of biomedia. At the end it have a water pump to push water up again to the aquarium, with an inline co2 diffuser in the return hose.
Nu2Discus
10-23-2013, 12:56 PM
Oh wow. I've seen filters made out of PVC like that, but it was just straight, and only one. So here you have a utube set up, and the first one being mechanical and the second biological. I like it. Is it easy to clean the mechanical filter part?

Oh, how to you have the intake set up? Is it like an overflow, or just an intake like with a canister?
dirtyplants
10-23-2013, 01:06 PM
very nice tank.
Wildcaught dutchman
10-23-2013, 01:16 PM
Beautiful plants for a discus tank.Very well done!!!:D
dirtyplants
10-23-2013, 01:19 PM
Are the filtration a fixed containers - can they be opened and cleaned? Is there an outlet valve that allows for the filling and emptying, or just a direct flow through from one to another, much like a syphon system? Not sure of the terminology to be used here.
wiz
10-23-2013, 06:04 PM
Hello, there is valves in the inlet and the outlet, each one can be unmounted, opened and serviced. Usually i only clean the first one (mechanical filtration) once per month aprox.