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srusso
03-30-2010, 10:08 PM
:o So I have read many posts about the BB vs Planted...
I happen to be on team planted but none the less the wording at some point in the fight goes "Discus natural living conditions are mud and tree roots... has anyone ever used mud? What type of mud is it? Can it be used? I think it maybe cool, with some areas with sand on top... !? :o
Eddie
03-30-2010, 10:16 PM
:o So I have read many posts about the BB vs Planted...
I happen to be on team planted but none the less the wording at some point in the fight goes "Discus natural living conditions are mud and tree roots... has anyone ever used mud? What type of mud is it? Can it be used? I think it maybe cool, with some areas with sand on top... !? :o

Uh...you are actually referring to their natural habitat where the water may appear to look/is muddy but new water is being replenished 100% of the time. Mud in your home aquarium will destroy your filtration and allow the worst possible parasite/bacteria to thrive.
Dan
03-30-2010, 10:27 PM
Uh...you are actually referring to their natural habitat where the water may appear to look/is muddy but new water is being replenished 100% of the time. Mud in your home aquarium will destroy your filtration and allow the worst possible parasite/bacteria to thrive.

+1, don't do it.
tcyiu
03-30-2010, 11:33 PM
+2

Tim

EDIT: I didn't mean to imply that you should not go planted. By all means. I lve the the I'm agreeing that mud is a really bad idea.
Chad Hughes
03-30-2010, 11:41 PM
Just use sand.
bluedimond123
03-31-2010, 02:24 AM
Yea NO mud IMO! I tried it once for my tanganikian mud dwellers an they died.
Jeff
akumastew
03-31-2010, 10:57 AM
Could he use Mud, if he could also replicate the 100% of the water changing all the time?

- Stew
wesleydnunder
03-31-2010, 11:56 AM
From what I've read in Bleher's Discus Vol. 1 and the pics in the same book, the bottoms of the streams and rivers where the discus live are white sand and leaf litter. I think a mud bottom is gonna be a royal pain to maintain, as the others have pointed out.
srusso
03-31-2010, 12:50 PM
ok, so no mud... so its white sand and dead leaves? Does anyone have pictures of discus in the wild? LOL :confused:

Mud was really a hypothetical question... already have sand...
Eddie
03-31-2010, 10:49 PM
Even better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnGKaougMz0&feature=related
waters10
04-01-2010, 11:51 AM
Could he use Mud, if he could also replicate the 100% of the water changing all the time?

- Stew
Sure, but that's impossible to replicate! You can't replicate a river supply of water in a fish tank. And we're talking about the biggest river in terms of volume of water in the world! :)
srusso
04-01-2010, 04:41 PM
THAT IS SO COOL!!! They look great in the wild!! Thanks Eddie!!