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    Due to unforeseen events I will be leaving Middle East and unfortunately there is no way to take my discus. I have to leave behind my discus tanks ( I知 really desperate about it. I see some stories there, but still don稚 know you guys handle it.

    Anyway I want to thank all of you for support and sharing your great experience is over last few years!


    I will miss them every single one our of my 20+6 crew

    I have some separated threads about both my discus tanks, but here collection of my best photos
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    Good luck and come back when you can!!

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    What the time frame? Are you moving back to the states? Are you looking for shipping licenses? Or are you just not allowed to take them?

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    I would love to take all the discus with me, but it痴 close to impossible to have export approval.

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    What are you going to do with your discus? Is someone going to take them for you?
    -Shane

    Discus do it bare bottom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeauxDiscus View Post
    What are you going to do with your discus? Is someone going to take them for you?
    Luckily I have found a trusted discus keeper, so I hope they will be fine there

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    Beautiful fish, I know the feeling you're feeling. Due to unforeseen circumstances I had to give up mine several years ago. IT SUCKS! I miss the daily fishroom routine everyday. One day again I'll have another fishroom and more Discus and large bruiser cichlids.

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    I can commiserate. We now spend much of the summer in the west. It's nice out here, but I miss the 1.5 - 2 hours in my fish room every morning. I have auto feeders going and an expert discus person checking my fishroom on a regular basis. Still, I'm looking forward to going back around Labor Day.
    At my age, everything is irritating.

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    I couldn’t have an empty room .. no tank no fish, so I’m back
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    Stand, Sump and tank are ready. I need to set up everything together. I have already made few improvement comparing to my previous setup (like rolling matte instead of socks in a sump).

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    everything is ready and waiting for a new habitants IMG_4503.jpg

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    Welcome back! looking forward to seeing what you stock it with!

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    That's going to be a nice setup!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeep View Post
    That's going to be a nice setup!
    thanks .. I took a lessons from the previous setups. E.g. in the previous one I was very limited to number (and type of plants) which can grow in the pure sand. Here I did created an island with a proper substrate. Hope it would stimulate plants growth.
    Still I wanted to have a big swim area with sand, so discus could find by their 'puffing' a food in sand.

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    Great to see you back! Like everyone else now waiting to see what you put in it! Looks like a lot of anubias and Java fern in there.

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    Yes … plenty of anubias and Java. On top of regular nana or barteri I found also Anubias heterophylla and hastifolia, which is a way bigger than barteri and should be a nice background. I have also a cute a. gracilis variant with a different shape of leaves. On top there are quite a few variants of Echinodorus from smaller types like grass (tenellus), bigger magdalensis some marbel queen to big amazon swords (bleheri) and amazonicus. Lastly few lotos, as I loved who they shoot aerial leaves.

    It would be a little bit an experiment to see which types will survive high temperatures and what would be a sweet spot of nutrients.

    So far looks like plants are doing ok and producing a lot of oxygen… I saw oxygen steam in fast growing plants, but today anubias surprised me with that …EBEC2E7E-B195-42F8-8467-2499ED5BC817.jpg

    BTW I would need to change a topic from “devastated” to “exited” about a new tank

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