Definitely growing and looking great mate!!
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Definitely growing and looking great mate!!
Pantherlax
What kind of sand you are using and the smooth rocks ?
I really like this texture of sand, really nice.
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From their first post, it looks like the sand is PFS (Pool Filter Sand).
The rocks look like what I've commonly heard as "River rock" or "creek stone", similar to what you can find here, but larger. Usually specialty landscaping stores have them.
Tank and fish look awesome. Can you tell us your current maintenance routine/water change schedule? Do you move all the rock work and shake it out during tank cleanings? Do you gravel vac the sand and if so how often? Whatever you are doing is working for you. Thanks!
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Those are some of the absolute nicest displays of domestic strains I have ever seen. Breathtaking aquariums!Quote:
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Just carefully read through your thread again and found answers to most of my questions.:)Quote:
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We are getting used to the Covid Cabin fever here, but here is just over 2 month update.
Seeing noticeable growth on the smaller ones, active spawning all the way to fungused eggs looks like 1 female 3 males of the 4 large fish. I like the process but have no intention of setting up a whole breeding rack for them currently.
System is working well so far with these processes:
2x weekly swapping fine filter floss in DIY power head 2L polishing filter (damn its ugly but I love this thing)
Weekly 60% WC, Temp controlled tap straight into aquarium after dechlor, 100% gravel vac and heavy disturbance under the rock work to get out all gathered waste.
Bi-weekly swap/recharge of purigen media in reactor.
Monthly service of alternating FX6 biofilters.
Feeding daily 3 feedings, 4 cubes FDBW, frozen hikari brine, frozen hikari bloodworms.
Will switch to Color enhancing FDBW next month and will document change closely.
Latest vid:
http://youtu.be/uN_u6-gUGaw
Looking good mate!
Definitely have to reiterate that I love the heck out of your tank!
Thanks for following! Glad you like it.
For a real take on day to day if I go 3-4 days beyond a week for water change I start to get a diatom buildup on sand, and I have decreased lighting to about 8 hours a day to minimize this.
I’m playing with the idea of dropping the temps in tank from 86 to 84 after all fish reach 5” in perhaps 6 months time to keep food costs in check, as the 12 cost about $40/month of food and is really like to keep that as a max going forward even though they will need more per feeding.
Latest video, long Covid-Based relaxation vid. Enjoy
http://youtu.be/lZvtvotWdHg
Started feeding the Red Enhancing FDBW today and, like every other attempt to get these fish a “better” food, they do not take to it as readily as original FDBW. I was assured by more than three that all their fish take it just as well as original, but only ravaged 3 of 5 cubes and seem content to leave the other two be.
Time shall tell but I’m going to take photos of the smaller ones with a few yellow areas still to track the time to color change, if there is any.
nice tank Ed
I have a planted tank that a group of grown discus are about to go in. I'm not as happy with it as I expected to be, as the plants are really growing too fast and overtaking the tank. (going to reduce them heavily before they go in).
But I'm going to be adding a 125 that I plant to be much simpler and favorable to the discus and this tank and thread is the perfect reference. What an amazing tank. I love the simplicity, cleanliness, color and room for the discus. Excellent job. Subscribing!