Allapart
03-05-2016, 10:05 PM
Ok talk about jump right it!!!
over christmas holidays set up a 15 yr old 10 gallon tank, spoke to a friend that has a 120 gallon tank with 23 wild P altums. I didn't even know he kept fish. Seeing a pic I sent him he informed me I had no media in the aquaclear 10 gallon filter. This prompted the question how did he know that hence the return answer to come and see his set up. So high gear to kijiji and later my wife wanted another 10 gallon and my 21 yr old daughter a 5 gallon and I bought a 90 gallon, huge learning curve ,new tank syndrome etc etc. I can't start slow I'm wired that way, plants, CO2 , tetra's bought pair of kribensis,they spawned have younge plants growing well. Yeh,,,,I want discus,my friend has P altums challenging!! I want discus challenging.
So as of yesterday at 9:00 am I received 6 wild caught discus,average 5 to 6 inches. Today just finished feeding them live black worms from a dropper and worm cone for lack of better description. I only had one fish lay on its side and look black for about 12 hrs now I can't tell which one it was. PH is about 6.5 water hardness is from what the town says around 9. What ever that means and I bumped the temp up today to around 84.
They look healthy and pecking order looks like it's forming already, so my plan is to do around 20 percent change every other day . I need all the help advice pointers etc. And no I'm not going to go bb tank I like the plants as much as the fish but if they pair off I will set up a tank to try to breed and hence another thread/blog.
Allapart
over christmas holidays set up a 15 yr old 10 gallon tank, spoke to a friend that has a 120 gallon tank with 23 wild P altums. I didn't even know he kept fish. Seeing a pic I sent him he informed me I had no media in the aquaclear 10 gallon filter. This prompted the question how did he know that hence the return answer to come and see his set up. So high gear to kijiji and later my wife wanted another 10 gallon and my 21 yr old daughter a 5 gallon and I bought a 90 gallon, huge learning curve ,new tank syndrome etc etc. I can't start slow I'm wired that way, plants, CO2 , tetra's bought pair of kribensis,they spawned have younge plants growing well. Yeh,,,,I want discus,my friend has P altums challenging!! I want discus challenging.
So as of yesterday at 9:00 am I received 6 wild caught discus,average 5 to 6 inches. Today just finished feeding them live black worms from a dropper and worm cone for lack of better description. I only had one fish lay on its side and look black for about 12 hrs now I can't tell which one it was. PH is about 6.5 water hardness is from what the town says around 9. What ever that means and I bumped the temp up today to around 84.
They look healthy and pecking order looks like it's forming already, so my plan is to do around 20 percent change every other day . I need all the help advice pointers etc. And no I'm not going to go bb tank I like the plants as much as the fish but if they pair off I will set up a tank to try to breed and hence another thread/blog.
Allapart