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Fish are in and all happy
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
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.
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.
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
~JACKLYN~
Maybe not black but Medium Blue?
black or blue will look great Mike.
~JACKLYN~
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 -
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Thoughts ?
Mike what do you think ? ^
the blue over white Sanjay. But black over both is my vote.
~JACKLYN~
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.
Plus, the discus may become darker with a black background.
Here is my old tank - IMG_0101-min.jpg
Last edited by sanjay21; 07-11-2017 at 04:39 PM.
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