Wild Green Discus Biotope

[DomiDiscus]

Sweet lord this is amazing, personally, I'd go blackwater with this but hows its tinted right now it looks great. Those pikes sure are somethin else.

[jmf3460]

Sweet lord this is amazing, personally, I'd go blackwater with this but hows its tinted right now it looks great. Those pikes sure are somethin else.

me too needs tannins

[Phillydubs]

Spectacular!!

[Swedgin]

Well the root is going to provide tannins for a good while, we'll see where I go after that.
Night mode is pretty cool, too. Will adjust to a little lower intensity tomorrow.
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[Swedgin]

Few more pics.

Some of the guys are still a bit scratched from the move, but looking much better than a couple days ago.

And some of them are already starting to mark their territory, but they are the ones I expected to do so eventually. Might have a pair on my hands, who knows

Fed mussels, makes a mess of the water.

Also added some water lettuce, hope it survives this time.


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[jmf3460]

Geeze louise. that is all I can say

[William1]

Nice spots!

[Phillydubs]

How are those pikes behaving themselves.

[Swedgin]

How are those pikes behaving themselves.

Very well so far, outside of feeding times they mind their own business, the discus aren't bothered by them at all. During deeding they started to steal the fdbw cubes, so switched to loose worms, as I feed the discus more often than the pikes. In return the discus eat mussels and shrimp that the pikes leave. So a perfect symbiosis, for now. The L95 cleans everything else up, be it mussels, pellets, worms or shrimp.

[Swedgin]

Just did my routine water testing, 0-0-5. No wc since it's been set up. And those plants are growing and multiplying. Seems I'm doing something right here.

[DomiDiscus]

My lord these greens are beautiful! Greens and or Heckels are for sure on my list.

[Swedgin]

Quick pic, Pistia is growing like crazy, the picture doesn't do justice to how awesome it looks, the surface is virtually fully covered bar the patch on the left which I need for feeding.

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[jmf3460]

TANK LOOKS AWESOME!! Discus are showing dark bar, is it because you are photographing them?

[Swedgin]

No, it's at feeding time, they always get really excited. I'll try to get some pics at a quiet time soon

[jmf3460]

no need to explain, mine do the same. its hard to photograph them without bar bc when I approach the tank, they automatically assume food and show bar.