H2Ocean
11-03-2018, 01:23 PM
let me say hello to everyone from newbie (like me) to the veteran breeders here. great info on the site and hoping it and you will guide me to success. I'm an old fart and have had tanks most of my life, the one i am working on now is a 100 or 125 gallon that used to have 5 LARGE volitan lionfish in it that i had for years. as time passed so did the jobs and the company i ended up working with required long road trips and time away from home for 2-3 weeks. the tank was so established that my son 12 at the time could easily keep an eye on it for me while i was away. My feeder fish connection closed while i was away and my son and his friend went to the local "Big Box" pet-(add name here) and bought 50 feeders for them that were diseased ad killed the entire tank before i could get home.
I loved the lion fish since they just were so graceful in the water they just floated and swam like softball angels with their wings just floating with them. I sold most of the saltwater equipment years ago and the tank has set empty for at least 5 years. I was going to start it as a Cichlid tank but knew i would get bored with the fish and just let the tank go. So with the info on the web and the inspiration of this excellent community I have decided to, with the chagrin of my wife, to go with a Discus tank.
So hare we go!! I decided to do a bare bottom tank ( i added tile to the bottom to simulate sand) and dug out the many boxes of "stuff" i have collected for years. I am planning on using my 3 cylinder canister system fore main filtration with the discharge at the bottom to help keep waste from gathering under the rocks for decoration. It is filtration, charcoal, and heater. I have an old Fluval canister i think i am going to convert to a bio-filter and i have a few Phos-Ban reactors i can use for ammonia,nitrate, or whatever buffering or elimination i may need. I bought 2 LED light strips and mounted them in a section of rain gutter for lighting since with the saltwater i always used cheap shop lights since they would corrode in 6 months the same as the high dollar aquarium lights.
So the project begins and i hope it is as rewarding as the tank used to be. was gonna attach a photo but it just gives me errors so when i figure that out i'll post one
I loved the lion fish since they just were so graceful in the water they just floated and swam like softball angels with their wings just floating with them. I sold most of the saltwater equipment years ago and the tank has set empty for at least 5 years. I was going to start it as a Cichlid tank but knew i would get bored with the fish and just let the tank go. So with the info on the web and the inspiration of this excellent community I have decided to, with the chagrin of my wife, to go with a Discus tank.
So hare we go!! I decided to do a bare bottom tank ( i added tile to the bottom to simulate sand) and dug out the many boxes of "stuff" i have collected for years. I am planning on using my 3 cylinder canister system fore main filtration with the discharge at the bottom to help keep waste from gathering under the rocks for decoration. It is filtration, charcoal, and heater. I have an old Fluval canister i think i am going to convert to a bio-filter and i have a few Phos-Ban reactors i can use for ammonia,nitrate, or whatever buffering or elimination i may need. I bought 2 LED light strips and mounted them in a section of rain gutter for lighting since with the saltwater i always used cheap shop lights since they would corrode in 6 months the same as the high dollar aquarium lights.
So the project begins and i hope it is as rewarding as the tank used to be. was gonna attach a photo but it just gives me errors so when i figure that out i'll post one