Update pics of planted tank

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this is the by far the best looking planted tank and best looking discus i have ever seen.
incredible.
Amol

[jannima]

Great looking fish and plant, how often and how much do you do water change?

Weekly water change 40% - 50%

[crash]

Hi,
I am one of the few that advocate planted tank for discus,
Can you please give us bit more information on,
1. What is the subtrate you using.
2. What is your fertilizer schedule. (which ferts)
Any information which can help get your kind of success.
Thank you in advance.
Amol

[jannima]

Hi Amol, here is some information.

Subtrate: ADA aqua soil (Amazonia), ADA bright sand.
The tap water in my city is pretty hard, usually around ph 7.8, ADA aqua soil does a great job for lowering ph to 6.8.

Fertilizers:
-Weekly: 12.5ml of Tropica MasterGrow
-daily: 20ml of Florish Excel (DIE BBA!!!!! )

Illumination: T5 54WX4 (6500K and 10000K), 9 hours per day.
I am thinking about to increase it to 12 hours tho.

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Thank you for the information.
Great tank, post some more pics when you can.

[White Worm]

Where did you get your discus? Old ones / new ones? Did you get them all from the same source? Very impressive tank btw.

[jannima]

Where did you get your discus? Old ones / new ones? Did you get them all from the same source? Very impressive tank btw.

The old leopards were from a LFS in monterey park, CA; The other three were Stendker.

[GrillMaster]

I pulled out most of Blyxa japonica, it was totally out of control.

What did ya do with the blyxa anyways??

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what kind of lights do you have. I am wondering whats bringing that bluish tone out?
Thank you,
Amol

[scolley]

That is one spectacular looking Planted Discus tank! Congratulations on a JOB WELL DONE!

One question... did you mention the size of the tank? If so, I missed it - would love to know.

Either way though - GREAT JOB!

[jannima]

bastalker I thought I could do some garden work and planted the trimmed blyxa outside, oh well.....lol.

Amol Tek light 54WX4 (6500K and 10000K), I heard about 8000k will be better, but can't find it anywhere online.

scolley The tank spec is 48X15X17. Btw, I love your platned tank on plantedtank forum, especially the part of the DIY all glass tank. Awesome job!!

[ItsGeoff]

that looks very very nice since i saw it last over at APC. and just for kicks, your discus are currently the desktop of my computer and have been for about a month now.

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and just for kicks, your discus are currently the desktop of my computer and have been for about a month now.

same here..........

[Marinemom]

Those are absolutely gorgeous discus and your tank is stunningly awsome! Keep up the good work.

Diane

[jannima]

just for kicks, your discus are currently the desktop of my computer and have been for about a month now.

same here..........

Glad to hear you guys like the discus pics Let me know if you need a higher resolution picture, I will upload it.
Time to grab DC to take more pics.