Wild Discus + Altums

[zonkkie]

Hello from Singapore! I am been lurking on the forums for a while since I started out keeping wild discus. I have learnt a lot from SD including seafood mix recipes, how to treat diseases, etc - so thanks to everyone who has been contributing.

Here's sharing my tank of 5x Wild Discus (from Hudson) and 6 Altums. The Discus have been with be for close to 3 years while the Altums are a year old. Hope you like them!

Full Tank Shot..



A Curuai Royal..



A Guariba



Another Guariba Semi Royal...



Begging for food...



Altums...

[jmf3460]

stunning fish and great photography!

[joanstone]

Beautiful!!

[AngryBird]

Stunning.. got goosebumps seeing the picture

[c_sir]

wow, everything!

[Crockett]

Those r real nice

[zonkkie]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. It's been a journey.

This is how the tank looks like on Day 1. I under-estimated the tank size and the woods that I bought were extremely underwhelming.



There was this store in Singapore (Green Chapter) that relocated and brought in a good amount of large size Malaysian driftwood. I managed to grabbed a few of them.




Decided to add a slimline background to the tank so that overall - the tank looks brighter.


Manacapuru angels were added as well as some pothos.
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Got bored and removed the background (thankfully, slimlines are not fixed to the back). Decided to do "semi planted" and added narrow leaf java ferns to the wood.

[rickztahone]

One of the best looking tanks I have seen in a while. TFS

[zonkkie]

One of the best looking tanks I have seen in a while. TFS

Thank you! Have been trawling the forum for ideas before setting up! I think it helps in getting things right in the first place vs correcting later.

[musicmarn1]

Arrg I live narrow leaf look!!!! Never thought of that, that's exactly what I want how about your lighting for those?

[zonkkie]

Arrg I live narrow leaf look!!!! Never thought of that, that's exactly what I want how about your lighting for those?

Haha, yeah, that was one of my favourites as well. But the daily dosing of K and Co2 got a bit heavy one the pocket.

I am using LED - there are a couple of Mazarra razors above the tank.

[STHH]

Hello fellow Singaporean, your tank is beautiful, and those wild discus looks very nice.
I didn't dose K and Co2, so I have to live with slow growing plants and algae.

[jmf3460]

DO I SEE a geophagus in there? as well as a cupid cichlid or a bandit cichlid??

[zonkkie]

Hello fellow Singaporean, your tank is beautiful, and those wild discus looks very nice.
I didn't dose K and Co2, so I have to live with slow growing plants and algae.

Hello there! Seen you in arofanatics. Hope you are enjoying the Andrew Soh books. I realize that after a while, my narrow leaf java ferns start having holes if I don't dose K.

DO I SEE a geophagus in there? as well as a cupid cichlid or a bandit cichlid??

Sharp eyes! I do have Eartheaters in there... same family as the cupid cichild but they are biotodoma wavrini.



and some juvenile santaoperca daemon to grow out.

[jmf3460]

cute little fish biotodoma wavrini. what is their personality like?