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    Default Setting up my 125 gallon tank.

    I'm finally moving from an apartment to a house. What is the first you do ? Setup a Discus tank

    Here is what I'm working on - 125 gallon tank, 1/4th of the tank I filled with sand where I housed some driftwood and rest of the tank will be bare bottom tank.

    Filtration - Fluval FX6, Sunsun 304b and weekly twice 70% water changeIMG_1474.JPGIMG_1473.JPGIMG_1472.JPGIMG_1471.JPG

    Heaters - 2 x 300 watts heaters

    Will be housing 12-13 Adult Discus, some schooling fish, corries and a couple plecos.

    Any suggestions regarding the tank ?

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    Fish are in and all happy

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    Very nice. You should have painted the bottom of the tank blue and it would look like an island in the ocean. I'd be a little careful with that sharp driftwood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by White Worm View Post
    Very nice. You should have painted the bottom of the tank blue and it would look like an island in the ocean. I'd be a little careful with that sharp driftwood.
    Thanks Mike, I never seen blue based bottom, do you have any pictures ? I like the idea.
    I did try to soft the pointy piece of wood by brushing it. Its not that sharp as it looks in the picture

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    Too late now, but when it was empty, you would just turn it over, mask it off and paint the outside bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg4ytT_4hq4. In this video, you can see that I painted the bottom a sand multi-color.

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    Quote Originally Posted by White Worm View Post
    Too late now, but when it was empty, you would just turn it over, mask it off and paint the outside bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg4ytT_4hq4. In this video, you can see that I painted the bottom a sand multi-color.
    Wow ! can't even that its paint. True, now that its running its a big pain. Will definitely do it one day just to see how it looks.

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    Beautiful job OP, a round of applause to you!! The tank combines the functionality and ease of bare bottom but still has the aesthetic properties of a planted and scaped tank. Well done. My suggestion is to get a black background on there stat. That way we don't have to look at cables and equipment behind the tank. Other than that its a beautiful tank. Well done
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    Maybe not black but Medium Blue?

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    black or blue will look great Mike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmf3460 View Post
    Beautiful job OP, a round of applause to you!! The tank combines the functionality and ease of bare bottom but still has the aesthetic properties of a planted and scaped tank. Well done. My suggestion is to get a black background on there stat. That way we don't have to look at cables and equipment behind the tank. Other than that its a beautiful tank. Well done
    Thanks Jacklyn! I did enjoy scaping this tank, I am looking to cover the background just didn't find a good source to buy from I want to buy, I'm thinking of going with a white Vinyl or this one -
    Salt_Ocean.jpg

    Thoughts ?
    Mike what do you think ? ^

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    the blue over white Sanjay. But black over both is my vote.
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    Default Re: Setting up my 125 gallon tank.

    I had black background before and it did a great job hiding cables both front(mostly) and back plus the sponge filters are barely visible. But personally I felt black background won't match my current setup.

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    Plus, the discus may become darker with a black background.

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    Here is my old tank - IMG_0101-min.jpg
    Last edited by sanjay21; 07-11-2017 at 04:39 PM.

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    Default Re: Setting up my 125 gallon tank.

    Quote Originally Posted by sanjay21 View Post
    Thanks Jacklyn! I did enjoy scaping this tank, I am looking to cover the background just didn't find a good source to buy from I want to buy, I'm thinking of going with a white Vinyl or this one -
    Salt_Ocean.jpg

    Thoughts ?
    Mike what do you think ? ^
    Have you seen a frosted background tank yet?

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