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    Default Re: My Small Wild Amazon

    Pat you are right, these are 100% green wild discus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by plecocicho View Post
    Pat you are right, these are 100% green wild discus.
    Yes Ferdo and those are mighty fine greens
    Your discus are talking to you....are you listening


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    Quote Originally Posted by jmf3460 View Post
    Any more shots of your plecos??
    I have some, but they are very shameful.

    Quote Originally Posted by Second Hand Pat View Post
    Nice fish but those Madeira Browns look like wild greens to me.
    Quote Originally Posted by plecocicho View Post
    Pat you are right, these are 100% green wild discus.
    Maybe you're right, but Snookn21 sold them as brown.
    For me they can be: green, blue, brown or pink, but they are mine.

    And finally some photo spam.
    jmf3460 for You some pleco.








    I,s very very difficult to "catch" them.










    Thanks for watching and interest.

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    Love the set up. I'm looking to do something similar with a branch and very few plants. May I ask why double canister over a canister and HOB? Also about how deep is your sand substrate, is it only sand, and what kind of sand? Love the set up! I'm hoping to do amazon swords like you have but then maybe jungle val on the side opposite my tree root.


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    Nice job growing them out.

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    Hi Mapet, I wanted to ask you about your pleco. Could it be L168 by any chance? Does it poop a lot? It looks very sweet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FluffyWolf2 View Post
    May I ask why double canister over a canister and HOB?
    I have a lot fish, both are fully the ceramic's, so i got better biological filtration.
    HOB what this mean?

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    Also about how deep is your sand substrate, is it only sand, and what kind of sand?
    I got just sand, no substrat. Under amazon sword I've got balls (clay with peat), which I did myself.
    The sand I buy on the Home depot (silica sand), 2 bags of 50 pounds.

    This sand not change the parameters of the water, the pH is not changed.

    Quote Originally Posted by FluffyWolf2 View Post
    Love the set up. I'm looking to do something similar with a branch and very few plants.
    What can I say... just do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tolga View Post
    Hi Mapet, I wanted to ask you about your pleco. Could it be L168 by any chance? Does it poop a lot? It looks very sweet.
    Hi.
    The L-168 look similar but they got larger white stripes.
    I asked the guy 3 times the same thing but about L-270, and He says: He is sure they are L-333.
    No, they don't do a lot poop.
    Yes they are very sweet, shy but sweet.

    Thank You guys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mapet View Post
    I have a lot fish, both are fully the ceramic's, so i got better biological filtration.
    HOB what this mean?
    Hang on back.

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    The 205 i's on the left side aquarium and 405 i's on the right.
    They are not connected together.

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    Nice thanks for the info! The peat ball things is it a 'home made substrate' then or are the amazon swords in them? Like the set up, I go get my 75G tomorrow, very excited! The info you gave will help a lot!

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    I take wet clay, mix with the peat moss(50/50), I make small balls ( approximately 3/4 inch) and put them in the oven, bake it for about 20 minutes.
    At my Amazon sword I put 3 balls between the roots of each.
    You can add some K2SO4 and MgSO4, the rest of the macro elements they can take from the water.
    I don't need this, beacuse I dont got to much light ( 60 W per 75 gallons).

    So they looked like they planted:
    http://i.imgur.com/OJW93b3.jpg

    So they look now.
    http://i.imgur.com/1FJoh7o.jpg
    My wild Browns
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO_r41J-o6M

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    Default Re: My Small Wild Amazon

    WOW...I'm impressed...Beautiful..

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    That is some beautiful discus, wild reds are my favorite discus


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    Nice set up & beautiful fish!

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