marchmaxima
08-25-2008, 12:38 AM
Hi all,
Sorry in advance if any question I ask has been answered. I've been spending a bit of time reading and researching, and I may have things muddled a bit.
having never owned discus and always wanted to, I'm now preparing a 4x2x2. It was to be built around discus, for discus. So everything I am doing, I am doing based on the fact that the discus' needs come first.
I had also planned to go medium light planted. Having now read the planted vs bb discussions, I can see that in the short term, I will have to go bb. I was planning on buying juvies purely because the cost of buying 6 or 8 adults is a bit heavy. Q1: can anyone recommend a site/page that gives info specifically on how ensure your discus go from juvies to adults happily and healthy? I know about extra feeds, but I had no idea about bb tanks and if that's the case, I wonder what else I am missing.
That's not so bad, because this is costing a wad of cash, so to delay some of the cost in creating a planted scape is fine with me. I thought I'd set up the tak, get it established, etc and then after a while then add discus. Q2: please confirm it would be better to convert the tank to a planted tank later once the discus have grown up.
I want to use 2 x 150w metal halide lights over the tank (obviously for the plants). Q3: Will this be okay to implement on a bb tank given the juvie discus won't have plants to shelter under from the bright light? If not, what is best?
Q4: My tap water has a kH of 0 and a gH of 3. Should I use crushed coral or other buffer to minimise potential pH swings.
Thanks in advance
Sorry in advance if any question I ask has been answered. I've been spending a bit of time reading and researching, and I may have things muddled a bit.
having never owned discus and always wanted to, I'm now preparing a 4x2x2. It was to be built around discus, for discus. So everything I am doing, I am doing based on the fact that the discus' needs come first.
I had also planned to go medium light planted. Having now read the planted vs bb discussions, I can see that in the short term, I will have to go bb. I was planning on buying juvies purely because the cost of buying 6 or 8 adults is a bit heavy. Q1: can anyone recommend a site/page that gives info specifically on how ensure your discus go from juvies to adults happily and healthy? I know about extra feeds, but I had no idea about bb tanks and if that's the case, I wonder what else I am missing.
That's not so bad, because this is costing a wad of cash, so to delay some of the cost in creating a planted scape is fine with me. I thought I'd set up the tak, get it established, etc and then after a while then add discus. Q2: please confirm it would be better to convert the tank to a planted tank later once the discus have grown up.
I want to use 2 x 150w metal halide lights over the tank (obviously for the plants). Q3: Will this be okay to implement on a bb tank given the juvie discus won't have plants to shelter under from the bright light? If not, what is best?
Q4: My tap water has a kH of 0 and a gH of 3. Should I use crushed coral or other buffer to minimise potential pH swings.
Thanks in advance