Planted Albino Discus Tank

[TheRedSpotted]

good luck OP. I cant believe your fish went 10 days with no heater and no filtration, that's awesome. I would guess your tank gets some sunlight?? Thus causing photosynthesis each day allowing your plants to produce oxygen for the fish?? Otherwise I would assume the fish would have suffocated. Were they at the top gulping air when you came home?

I can't believe also but that's real.
My automatic feeder stopped 4 days after leaving home.
Fishes were extremely quiet and no signs of suffocation.
Except they were shy.
All windows were closed so no natural light inside the lobby.
It is unreal and I feel very lucky

[TheRedSpotted]

Hi,

I have good news inspite of the title
I have recovered from the serious black out.
New plants settle well and the tank doesn't seem to suffer from this matter.
Hope to recieve the mother nature gifts tomorrow

[Filip]

Eagerly waiting for your update pictures ,Redspotted :-) .

[TheRedSpotted]

Teaser :

Apologies for bad pics

[Filip]

Looking big , round and very nice .
Are theese wild caught discus?
What's the name of the strain?
I can only imagine your excitement right now :-)

[William1]

Looks like a royal something. Not a heckel.

[TheRedSpotted]

Looks like a royal something. Not a heckel.

you are Right : he is at royal Urucum

Looking big , round and very nice .
Are theese wild caught discus?
What's the name of the strain?
I can only imagine your excitement right now :-)

He is a wild caught from Hek and now on the road...and his little female on the right also.

[TheRedSpotted]

Hi,
A picture few minutes after releasing the wilds

New plants are growing well, in a few weeks it would come back to normal.

[Filip]

I haven't expected to see your wilds in this high- planted setup :-) .They look gorgeous.
Are they a proven pair ? Did you got only two of them , and do you have any plans of breeding them in future?
And who is Hek ?

And one more question. What kind of water do you use now for your wilds , regarding TDS and PH values ?

And sorry if I sound like a quiz again :-) .

[TheRedSpotted]

I haven't expected to see your wilds in this high- planted setup :-) .They look gorgeous.
Are they a proven pair ? Did you got only two of them , and do you have any plans of breeding them in future?
And who is Hek ?

And one more question. What kind of water do you use now for your wilds , regarding TDS and PH values ?

And sorry if I sound like a quiz again :-) .

Hi Filip,

I can breathe now, the setup run well, I didn't modified the parameters yet.
They stay at 260µS and pH around 7.
I will slowly reach 100-150µS.
Till now I work with tap water which is excellent in my city (it comes from a spring water collection point)
I will add gently osmosis water to the rate of 50%.

They have a very good potential as they were sold as show fishes from Hudson Crizanto.
Unfortunatly I can only get 2 specimen because only 4 fishes of this grade were recieved in this shipment.

One of them (showned above on left side of the picture) it had pre-ordered was kept for show by the importer and was priced in milano show it is also a male.
My female is on right side of the same picture. there's a lot of job to make her recovering the original pattern.
The remaining one will be involved in a breeding program by the importer.

They land in france in may and stay at importer facilities for all the last month.
It's not a confirmed pair as they never spawn.
They use to stay together at importer place.
So I don't want to disturb this natural choice at all.
The male size is very impresive for a wild and has small eyes. I expect to bring them to their full potential in the coming month.

At the moment I just hope to bring them the best cares and probably try to make them spawn.

[Galvatron]

Beautiful tank!

[jmf3460]

your plants look awesome to have had 10 day blackout. that is crazy how well they have bounced back. I have mixed feelings about your wilds in this planted set up but its just a personal hang up I have with putting wilds in biotope tanks and not planted tanks.

great looking wilds you have gotten there. they need some friends soon I hope.

[TheRedSpotted]

your plants look awesome to have had 10 day blackout. that is crazy how well they have bounced back. I have mixed feelings about your wilds in this planted set up but its just a personal hang up I have with putting wilds in biotope tanks and not planted tanks.

great looking wilds you have gotten there. they need some friends soon I hope.

Thanks,
You are right with the biotop which fit better with the wilds.
But I'm not queen on biotop I like so much green!

Kind regards,

[Filip]

You put them in a established tank without quarantine and directly in tap water parameters ?
I really thought that wild caught discus are more sensitive and unforgiving regarding the soft and acidic water parameters and domestic pathogens.

[TheRedSpotted]

You put them in a established tank without quarantine and directly in tap water parameters ?
I really thought that wild caught discus are more sensitive and unforgiving regarding the soft and acidic water parameters and domestic pathogens.

They were kept in similar parameters from may till now at importer facilities.
I don't want to stress them much more I decided to place them directly in their new environment to avoid a lot of fishing sessions.
Regarding pathogens I have a little helper. Just have a look to the right corner in the background a twinstar is running to prevent from pathogen.
I start to adapt gently the paramaters to better ones.

Kind regards,
Best regards,