Planted Tank - Week 8 or 9, Lol

[DiscusLoverJeff]

Hello everyone,

Here are some photos of my planted tank and the beautiful discus from Kenny.

The plants went wild and in 8 weeks everything doubled in size and I have already had to prune the swords and the water lillies.

Also, see the photo of the wonderful root system using Eco-Complete. This stuff works!!!
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx161/DiscusJeff/Discus%20Tank/Discus2/P7280427.jpg?t=1282597831
More
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx161/DiscusJeff/P8230460.jpg?t=1282598965

http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx161/DiscusJeff/P8230461.jpg?t=1282598965
Roots
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx161/DiscusJeff/Discus%20Tank/Discus2/Discus3/P8230465.jpg?t=1282599089

[Thank you for looking,

DiscusLoverJeff

[ExReefer]

Yeah, Eco-complete is great for plants. What kind of discus are the dark ones? They are trying to blend in with the black substrate so it's hard to tell.

[DiscusLoverJeff]

The dark ones are suppose to be High Carnation Turks, but I can not see any blue what so ever in them. They are very healthy, but not showing any signs of quality coloration.

DiscusLoverJeff

[ExReefer]

I’m sure the fish have lots of blue, but you’ll never see it over the Eco-Complete. Even a black background will turn the fish dark. Do a search for eco-complete and read some threads. You’ll see what I mean.

[RudeDogg1]

would the red eco complete stop this problem?

[kyubi]

nice tank, i gotta try those stuff.. i been using sand and it's work great, but the look of those roots, man i gotta get this...

[ExReefer]

would the red eco complete stop this problem?

I really doubt it. It's still pretty dark. I tried discus and eco-complete and my non-albino discus never looked right. Albinos go well with eco-complete.

[RudeDogg1]

lol looks like ill be going with sand ontop then

[h2osanity]

If you cap it with sand, the sand will trickle down through the EC and leave the larger substrate on top.

[RudeDogg1]

Grrr

[sgvreptiles]

NICE!

[Mary10]

Beautiful !! I've got to try it.

[Bud Smith]

Jeff - beautifull tank - I know some discus that would look really good in that tank

[manzpants92]

Looks great! low tech?

[Curt]

Tank looks great jeff. I never had a problem with my eco, i just didnt like it. Main reason i had soft water and it took me about a year to get my water param to stabalize. Now that we moved a couple years ago to harder water not an issue. I am acctually re scapeing it today and tomorrow as well as moving my 55 planted tank.

[DiscusLoverJeff]

I am acctually re scapeing it today and tomorrow as well as moving my 55 planted tank.

Can't wait to see what you come up with Curt. Lots of pictures. Good luck.

[dagray]

Great looking tank!!

I capped my eco complete with pea sized or smaller aquarium gravel. I also have some cory cats and otinculus in the tank to help eat the food discus don't. I find my discus will hunt the gravel for the blackworms (I put six ounces of live black worms in the tank every couple weeks). I can stir the gravel and get a mess of live worms that the discus and angels go crazy for. Tank is planted with Argentine Sword, Amazon Sword, Melon Sword and a Manzanita stump that has Anubias Barteri, sagitaria, Broad Leaf Ludwigia, and Cardinal plant.

I don't use CO2, but do use Flourish Excell. Lighting is a dual tube T5 fixture 48 inches long made by Zoo-Med with a 10000k full spectrum bulb and a 420 Actinic bulb. The Tank also gets lots of the natural ambient daylight.

I also have three filters on the tank (75 gallon tank, fluval 406, Marineland 350 deluxe [will evenutally replace with Fluval], Marineland Emporer 280 HOB filter.