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Where can I see your planted discus sand tanks?
Layering substrate in a discus won't work for long. It must be deep cleaned using a pathon around the plants. You can use roots, rocks, ranches and even leaves if you want a natural looking discus tank. Discus in the wild are usually not found where plants grow year round. More in flooded forest areas. Best answer so far is post #6 IMO.
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Where can I see your planted discus sand tanks?
Here is my thread from my grow out tank :
In the first post of the thread you have another link from the previous set ups :
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...t-thread/page4
This is sand? How did the plants grow?
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Here's one of mine from years ago - Pool filter sand - approx. 1/2" in front, and no more than 2" at the rear where the plants
are located - the plants did well with root tabs and some liquid ferts.
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Here's another - about a year before the previous one, also PFS with juvenile red snakeskins, and fairly similar plantings set-up.
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Nice! Is it still low-tech or it requires higher maintenance because of the ferts.
If I put the JBL proscap, no need to worry about ferts and it provides good water quality for the discus...
Low tech and easy maintenance.
IME with discus and to the best of my knowledge, there is no plant-beneficial, or plant-friendly, substrate material that provides sufficiently good water quality for discus. Go with PFS.
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Amazing!
What do you think of this one?
https://youtu.be/uG8d3FPf3ag
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Too weird for me
Jeanne
Some would say that fellow sure knows how to aqua-scape, and the finished product looks great.
Overall though, it's a very poor environment and set-up for discus, imo- for a variety of reasons.
It's a risky big trouble for discus waiting to happen.