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    Hi All, We have 4 fish tanks:
    1 Cube with 2 fish, shark and a little red fish
    30 gallon with 10 inch Axolotl, amazing aquascape and some other fish friendly to those weird creatures
    40 gallon salt with a pair of clowns and a yellow goby and anemone and coral
    125 gallon bow front with 30 gallon filter tank with:
    -12 new Stendker discus, (yesterday)
    -24 Rummy Nose (Captive breed)
    -6 German Blue Rams
    -4 Bronze Corys
    -1 spotted plecos. Not sure of name but 4" max.

    We have been fish tanking for 30 years and we scored an amazing deal on a used 125 tank and stand so we decided to learn about Discus and make this happen. We added water to the tank 3 months ago and started with Cory, then Rummy and Rams, then yesterday Discus and plecos.

    -Our sump pump is 500 GPH
    -Fluval light
    -Bulk Reef Supply double titanium heaters with wifi controller
    -Continuous water change system, dripping approximately 10 gallons a day.

    Looking forward to questions, thoughts and opinions on the water change system.

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    Welcome to the forum!!! Let's see some pics!!!

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    Lol nothing said till we see pictures . Congrats on the new tank and discus!

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    Lol I’ve been talking with you on Facebook. Jacob is also on here with some great pics of his Stendker. Jwcalson please read up on how he did his. Don’t think I’ve seem better Stendker discus than his!

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    I saw your discus on facebook as well! They look great, congratulations on the fish. Going to be joining you in the discus club very soon

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    Here is a short video with brief mention of water change system. Our tank cycled once or twice before we did this system and we are wondering if this system will be good or bad in the long term... No ammonia, nitrates, nitrites ever... the biological cycle may be irrelevant and is that going to be a bad or good thing?? No manual water changes is the biggest plus


    Not sure why some of the photos are sideways in the preview....but you get the picture :-)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOByZbQw8w
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    Nice video! If you remove the s in https the video shows up here without going to u-tube . All looks great. Only thing is I don’t think your drip system is going to help with discus. These fish and at the size you have will need 50+% daily water changes to develop correctly. Plus they will need to be fed a lot for a least the next 6 months. Once they reach the 6” size they should do better with your drip system.

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    Thanks! I will bump up the water to 60 gallons a day. will let you know how it goes...either way!

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    Curious, though, why 50 percent+/- if nitrates nitrites and ammonia are zero?

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    watching, How To Keep Discus, on U tube. wish I watched this sooner...lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iminit View Post
    Lol I’ve been talking with you on Facebook. Jacob is also on here with some great pics of his Stendker. Jwcalson please read up on how he did his. Don’t think I’ve seem better Stendker discus than his!
    That's mighty nice of you to say, Tom (iminit)! Though I am not sure that's true. . But thank you!
    Here's my thread, but I am not sure how much help it will be!
    http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...st-discus-tank

    Yes, I had a feeling this was the new Stendkers from Facebook. Glad too see you on the forum, Tom (tombetta)!

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    jw, your fish look dope! glad to be here.

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    50% is what I did others do more. I also did mine in a planted 125. It’s not just for removing water and waste it’s the new water. People have tried the drip system and many other tactic’s but nothing is better than clean water.

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    Hi Tom, first welcome to the forum I watched your video and have one suggestion. Mount your power strip on the side of your stand. If you not want a live power strip in water should you have a leak. Are you only using RO water with your drip?
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    Hi Pat! Thanks for the suggestion. I have since tidied the electrical and tubing and all the other stuff. We are using city water with 20" filters the 1st one is a sediment filter and the next 2 are carbon filters. I just calculated on half volume on the ball valve 44 gallons an hour. I have played around with the Volume and Can manage to get a drip as low as 5 gallons A-day. I've several different chlorine test strips and drops and so far no measurable chlorine is getting through the filter system.. But I receive an electronic ultra low chlorine tester tomorrow and will be curious what it says in terms of parts per billions... This is one heck of an interesting and expensive experiment and I really hope it'll work.

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