150 gallon Rio Negro Biotope. Moved Heckels into this

[woopaul5]

Looks great!!! Love the driftwood arrangement. Is it difficult to clean?

[Jack L]

very nice!

[Pardal]

Love the design, very realistic set up .

[Las Vegas]

Is it just me or am i the only one paranoid of having a discus skewer with all pointy wood.

LOL! Good one!

[robxc80]

Thank you everyone. The wood is a pain to keep clean. May have to thin it some and pull out the Cattapa leaves. As they breakdown, the dusty bits get everywhere. Makes the tank look dirty. Only good thing about it is it makes me do 3 water changes a week due to its unsightliness.

[rickztahone]

Awesome setup. I have a lot of branches in my tanks & have not had any issues & also figure that they live around the same things in the wild.

yeah, we all have to remember that in the wild, the discus live amongst a lot of root systems like this.

[robxc80]

Thank you everyone. The wood is a pain to keep clean. May have to thin it some and pull out the Cattapa leaves. As they breakdown, the dusty bits get everywhere. Makes the tank look dirty. Only good thing about it is it makes me do 3 water changes a week due to its unsightliness.

[robxc80]

Very nice biotope setup, i would only add 2 or 3 more hemiodus. Speaking of them, make sure your top is tight, they are good jumpers. What are tank measurments, water parameters and what filtration do you use?

My tank is a 72x18 150 gallon. Filtration is an eheim pro 3 2080, a fluval fx6, and I'm adding another eheim. I also have an aquaclear 70 with roobios tea in it.

My water is tap. 6.8 with 179ppm. Temp is at 85-86F. Lately, I've been doing 3 WC a week. I have lots of detritus in my tanks. I'm going to service my filters and see if that's the issue or if it's all the Cattapa leaves breaking down.

Im going to remove the 4 hemiodus soon.