rlockwoo88
10-18-2016, 02:02 AM
Hi All,
Jumping onto the forum from Australia, currently I have a couple of 75 Gallons and a 55 Gallon. All heavily planted and have most passive tropical fish from Cardinals to Torpedo Barbs.
I've recently been given the green light from the better half to construct a display tank in the living room and out of the "fish room", some conditions had to be met of course and as a result I will end up with a very nice piece of furniture as a stand.
I've also figured that I should give Discus a go at least once the tank is setup and stable, however I still want a densely planted with other species in there.
I figured I should run through what the design is, what hardware has been ordered and will be used. Everything seems fine to my current knowledge of Tropical fish but I may be missing something for Discus:
6x2x2.5 (LxDxH) 210~ Gallon Tank with corner overflow.
75 Gallon sump with Media:
45cm x 33cm Poret Foam in 5cm layers, 10>20>30>45 PPI.
Synfill Water Polisher
Room for 32 Litres of Bio Media (Marine Pure Spheres are in use in all my tanks)
Potentially a Purigen Reactor
Schego Titanium heaters connected to an external lab grade temperature controller.
Ecotech Marine M1 DC Return pump, throttled way down :)
3x Kessil A360W Tuna Sun
UV Steriliser - Undecided what yet.
ADA Base Soils with many different plants. (Any no-nos for Discus?)
Tank will initially only home Ghost/Crystal shrimp for the first few weeks/months until the population is largish - will see if they survive addition of fish. (Plenty of hiding spots)
Cardinal Tetras/Torpedo Barbs will be the first fish added.
As I wouldn't think of adding the first batch of Discus for at least 6 months after initial setup are there any glaring omissions I've made for Discus that I should fix at setup rather than retrospectively?
Oh, water changes will be done with straight tap water + Prime. I'm lucky it seems in that my cities tap water is 60-80ppm and causes me very few issues.
Thanks for any input that you guys can provide, really keen to keep Discuss but want to make sure it's doable from the start. In the meantime will post on the forum once I start setting this tank up.
Cheers,
Jumping onto the forum from Australia, currently I have a couple of 75 Gallons and a 55 Gallon. All heavily planted and have most passive tropical fish from Cardinals to Torpedo Barbs.
I've recently been given the green light from the better half to construct a display tank in the living room and out of the "fish room", some conditions had to be met of course and as a result I will end up with a very nice piece of furniture as a stand.
I've also figured that I should give Discus a go at least once the tank is setup and stable, however I still want a densely planted with other species in there.
I figured I should run through what the design is, what hardware has been ordered and will be used. Everything seems fine to my current knowledge of Tropical fish but I may be missing something for Discus:
6x2x2.5 (LxDxH) 210~ Gallon Tank with corner overflow.
75 Gallon sump with Media:
45cm x 33cm Poret Foam in 5cm layers, 10>20>30>45 PPI.
Synfill Water Polisher
Room for 32 Litres of Bio Media (Marine Pure Spheres are in use in all my tanks)
Potentially a Purigen Reactor
Schego Titanium heaters connected to an external lab grade temperature controller.
Ecotech Marine M1 DC Return pump, throttled way down :)
3x Kessil A360W Tuna Sun
UV Steriliser - Undecided what yet.
ADA Base Soils with many different plants. (Any no-nos for Discus?)
Tank will initially only home Ghost/Crystal shrimp for the first few weeks/months until the population is largish - will see if they survive addition of fish. (Plenty of hiding spots)
Cardinal Tetras/Torpedo Barbs will be the first fish added.
As I wouldn't think of adding the first batch of Discus for at least 6 months after initial setup are there any glaring omissions I've made for Discus that I should fix at setup rather than retrospectively?
Oh, water changes will be done with straight tap water + Prime. I'm lucky it seems in that my cities tap water is 60-80ppm and causes me very few issues.
Thanks for any input that you guys can provide, really keen to keep Discuss but want to make sure it's doable from the start. In the meantime will post on the forum once I start setting this tank up.
Cheers,