Originally Posted by
FirstTime_DiscusKeeper
Hey everyone,
new to keeping discus but not keeping fish(have over 10 plus yrs) and decided to do a lightly planted community tank. The plants i ordered are Val's and crypt parva I plan on using root tabs and liquid fertilizer(possibly once a week), my question is i currently do 50-70% water changes twice a week but I've heard doing frequent and large water changes with plants aren't recommended. also probably be wasting my liquid fertilizer since most of it will probably be removed. For everyone with planted tanks do you scale back on the water changes go from twice a week to once?? Just want to make sure before i start planting n doing my maintenance. Also my Discus range around 4" plus