My Natural Aquarium Coming To Life.

[proenca]

Hi Austin,

First of all, hats off to you my little "BIG" man !

Will be lovely to keep track of your tank - and already love that big driftwood that you've put in !

Best,

GP

[a.person61]

Update
I've decided I'm going to put rainbow fish in the 6 foot I'm not to confident with putting discus in it atm. So im buying a 70 gallion and I'm going put the discus in that with a few pots corys and tetras. Then after a year or 2 I'll change from gravel to sand In the big tank and move most of the fish from the 6 foot to the 70 gallion and move the discus to the 6 foot.

[a.person61]

Hey guys, my treatment is nearly over so it's time to start slowly prepairing the big tank. I'm going to put the discus in a bare bottom 70 gallion to start off with intill I get the feel of discus. I have a few questions mainly regarding water and sand. Ive done some math and doing 40% water changes 5 times a week with a larger change at the start of the month seems to be the go. How ever regarding my ph, my tap water is between 7.5 to 7.8 and in the tank it lowers because of the driftwood. Would a ph sing of about .2 cause probloms with the discus? Dose the kh really mater as long as it stays the same? The water temp on the big tank is abit strange one side is 25 and the other is about 27 is this going to cause probloms? Will a brownish sand pepper any discus? Do I have to run my fingers though the sand every week or so to stop air pockets forming in the sand? How fine do you recommend the sand to be? And would you be able to share your biggest discus with me? Thanks in advance.

[a.person61]

It's been brought to my attention that I also have access to distilled water should I use this or some of this with discus?

[rickztahone]

It's been brought to my attention that I also have access to distilled water should I use this or some of this with discus?

Do you plan on breeding discus?

[a.person61]

Not at this point

[rickztahone]

Not at this point

Tap water should be enough then. Only modify water when attempting to breed.

[stalefish83]

Hi Austin,

First I want to say what a pleasure it's been reading your story. Many blessing to you and your family! You seem to have a great head on your shoulders and I commend you for your strength!

I'm very new to discus myself, but all the research and help from others with way more experience than me state that a pH swing of .2 is nothing to worry about.

I look forward to following your progress!

Cheers

[a.person61]

Update: treatment is finnished (2 weeks ago) and I'm finally happy with the layout of the tank. I've been looking into co2 systems the past few weeks and have come across a co2 art kit for 500 L tanks. What is everyone's opinion on co2? The reason I'm wanting it is because when ever a leaf gets shabby you can tell these are mostly the larger leafs and I really dislike the look of green spot algy (slow growing plants are prone to it.) I've set a date where I'll be putting in discus which is after August when I get back from a little vacation. I would really like to change the tank to pool filter sand when I can but I'm a little worried about getting the gravel out without completely draining the tank or removing fish and also worried about a ammonia swing from all that good bacteria that would be removed. I'll post a pic on Sunday or Monday after the water change I've been slowing the water changes down abit to help build the bacteria colony in my filter.
-Austin

[a.person61]

Can't seem to upload a image

[Second Hand Pat]

Can't seem to upload a image

Austin, check the file size of the image, you may need to resize the image. We have a 2MB limit on the file size.
Pat

[a.person61]

2015-06-29 16.31.36.jpg
finally managed to upload a photo

[a.person61]

Needing advice regarding a canister filter. My aquaone trickle filter has pretty much died and I'm wanting to change get to 1 canister, so what's the best out there to do 540 L of water? I don't have enough room for multiple canisters so I think the ehium is off the list ��
thanks in advance!
Also a update had to put down that large angle the other day. How do you guys manage to do it so often?