3rd time with discus. Sharing here because I hate, HATE the drama on Facebook groups.
Using my 75 gallon that used to house musk turtles, tiger barbs and columbian tetras. The turtles moved to a 125 gallon.
Cleaned it out with bleach and let the mattenfilter sit dry for a week.
Started cycling with a bottle of seachem stability and tetra safestart. Ammonia 30ml every other day first week. Every day second week. 2x a day this week. A good serving of fish food 1x a week and some ground up cuttlefish bone 1x a week to keep the pH up.
Ordered 13 2.5" discus from hans but the website goofed up the shipping so he is going to send me 15. I'll upgrade to a 125 or 150 gal around Feb or March.
Filled 6 stemless wine glasses with new new eco complete. Each got 1/4 tab of seachem flourish tab and a crypt wendtii bronze or green. Plants came from my fishless snail tank. I put them in a 1:19 bleach solution to kill nasties but snails survived that since I now count 9 small snails in the tank that were not there yesterday.
Discus to arrive Wednesday. Plan is to
1. Avoid frozen foods
2. Daily poop vac
3. 50-75 w/c mon, wed, fri.
Going to feed northfin cichlid, Ken's green pellets, Ken's growth crumble. 4 feedings a day. Also added a sponge filter today in case I need to set up a hospital tank.