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Thanks Jack!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack L
Yeah all I'm trying to do is growout but I'm still a little afraid to take the next step and build a display tank, Maybe when they're done growing.
I use a Nikon J1, I love this camera, I'm not even a prosumer but it helps me take some awesome shots.
Here's one of my favorites
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Geoff
Geoff.
"prosumer" ? You are showing your youth; coming from an old baby boomer, I had to look it up. I love your video's and pictures.
Ron
Smoken!!!
I love them!
You have some seriously nice fat heads there!
What do you feed them?
Haha, Nice! I meant it as Pro/Consumer the half way in between the way camera websites talk. But Google spit out some "production by consumer" not sure what that is. Anyway, Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by alron2
Thanks Matt!!Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMatt
I make a Beef heart mix (John's recipe) and Al's FDBW (Fantastic stuff) I feed BH and DFBW in the morning and just a bit of BH at night.
nice shot
i only had film for my 1st discus tank, every photo was garbage and i had to pay and wait for development to find that out!
can you post "johns recipe" if it feeds w/o putting tons of debris in water?
i made my own bhmix, went simple, heart, spirulina wafers, and various high quality flakes, but then i feed it, it makes a LOT of particles in the water.
thinking its the spirulina wafer, but not certain. but i'm certain it plugs my filter socks
oh and with a planted tank....besides keeping it clean a big issue with a real tank is you need other fish to help with the algae, then you run the risk of bringing it parasites.
i lost a discus a couple weeks ago because of that.
Jack,Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack L
Here's the thread:
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...ght=how+i+make
I think the secret is lots of shrimp, from what I can tell its almost half shrimp which holds it together. Mine falls apart too but it sinks, it does not float all over.
So sorry about your losses.
Geoff
My wife has me put banana in it, that really seems to hold it together.
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Originally Posted by Loosir
mine holds together, it fact it held together enough the other night to remove it and put back in freezer. but some particulate floats off of it continuously. maybe the flake that i added.
i found that feeding the flake was a huge PIA, more went through the filter then through the fish, so i combined with beef heart.
i'll save off this recipe for next time. thanks.
on a related topic, was just at this huge fish store in lancaster, that pet place. no discus, and their frozen section was mostly emtpy. but they did have pricing for frozen beefheart. about 6 bucks for 4 oz. that would get expensive FAST. my LFS don't have frozen beefheart anyway.
Here's a video of my BH mix in water.
It's John's recipe plus cod and paprika but no venison. It sinks and doesn't cloud the water. It does break up but it's not a problem in a bare bottom.
http://youtu.be/wHOnj2ueoMg
It looks to hold up very well. TFS :)
thanks for posting vid.
from what i can see, its similar with how it holds together but i have a bit more particles in the waters, however with a planted there is more contrast so there is more particles visible
my mix was this
1lb heart (or maybe it was 8oz can't find note)
1oz kens brine flake
1oz kens beef flake
1oz kens color flake
1oz hikari spirulina discs
as the stuff heats up in the blender....well it makes an interesting aroma!
i realized after i bought a bunch of flake, feeding it in flake form wasn't going to work out, so this seemed to work.
that does TFS mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by rickztahone
Thanks for sharing ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack L